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So… now you’re going to children’s education sources? Are you 12?
I thought you could use a basic understanding.
Says the kid that whines about shit that he’s not even old enough to vote against.
Media Literacy is helpful at any age.
Manufacturing Consent, or better still Inventing Reality. A five-minute primer: Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
I may disagree with some of Chomsky’s views, but Manufacturing Consent should be read in every high school in America.
I think Chomsky & Parenti are intentionally kept out of the new, post-Trump media literacy curricula, because it would make people too literate. Just consider who was involved in crafting it.
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