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 …
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 …
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 …
