What Do You Want to Make Today?
There’s a lot that goes into evaluating sources for bias — both the source of a news story and the sources quoted or cited in that story — but I’m going to cover what I can here in this media literacy 101 overview. What is Bias? Bias means that the news source — whether the […]
Continuing my media literacy 101 series today, I wanted to talk about fake news, what it is, how to recognize it and what to do about it. What is Fake News? Contrary to what our President-elect might have you believe, fake news is not news you don’t agree with, or opinions that are not your […]
One of the things that I think is going to be so important in the coming years, regardless of what political views you espouse, is for people to really work hard to stay informed about what is going on, a sort of media literacy 101 on a level a lot of people might not have […]
It’s probably no surprise that I’m disappointed by the election results and have been feeling, like so many others, that I should have done more to prevent what has happened and what is going to be happening. I can’t change the election results, but I can take heart in the popular vote tally and in […]
It starts around the weekend of the first college football game. We want to call it fall, but that’s in August so everyone knows it’s not really fall. Then there’s Labor Day, when the rest of the country can declare it to be fall but we are still sweltering same as ever. September is not […]
I used to have a blog called Freelance Coach, where I wrote about the business of being a freelance writer/creative person. I shut it down a long time ago, but I kind of miss it. I think I need to start writing about those subjects again. When I was first starting out as a freelancer, […]
A few months ago I read a book called The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. It’s mostly about how doctors and pilots use checklists in their daily work to make things safer and to know what to do when things don’t go according to plan. I expected it to be more instructional, about how you […]