It's too easy to do that, and it doesn't solve anything. I believe there are marvelous possibilities, but we have to evaluate the potential and trade-offs of technology. She showed a short documentary-style video produced by the BBC for a special April Fool's Day broadcast. We don't want to teach children how to discriminate good shows from bad shows but to know how to ask questions about what they see and hear. They need to be able to evaluate messages.
Media literacy is a basic competency in today's world.
The Gulf War was a real wake-up call for Americans as to how manipulative the media can be. Then with the 1992 elections and the O.J. Simpson trial, we saw how the networks fell on that bandwagon and exploited that tragedy for economic gain. She praised the University of Dayton for its efforts. Media literacy has not yet been integrated into pre-service for teachers anywhere but here.