Learning to cope with Hypermedia is an essential survival skill in difficult times. People are learning not to believe much of what they see, read or hear, even when it comes from the Speaker of the House of Representatives (who rushed to microphones Thursday to report -- falsely -- that anthrax spores were making their way through the Capitol ventilation system) and to take their media in small, managed regimens. You might try watching the news for 15 minutes in the morning, then again for 15 minutes at night. You'll be amazed at how little happens in between, and how much of it can wait.
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November 7, 2001
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Though most of my broadcast studies thesis was focused on declining aesthetic values, I think the conclusion also applies to news standards: our primary dilemma is media literacy.
Media literacy is a means of not only educating the public and inoculating them from corrupt values, but setting the demand for a higher news and information standard--what we demand is what sells, and what sells is what plays.