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How should citizens consume media?
Well, it is like everything else in this country. It does particular moment which is we are not really caught up to change reality, technologically and socially and economically. We are not really dealt with change very well.
The curriculum we are teaching in school is the same curriculum we were teaching 40 years ago by large, but the world is nothing like it was four years ago and you could say this in whole vesturing of things in the country.
So, media literacy is not some of the consumers fault. We do not teach it, we do not acknowledge that media as a concept has grown so complex and so diversified that you actually need to explain it to people. If you are going to teach civics in grade school, then part of civics is you ought to be teaching media.
You have to explain, people have to learn what to expect. You are not born knowing the differences in media and how it operates and what your expectation should be then. Maybe instead of teaching a revolutionary wars six times, when you teach the revolutionary war three times and include some media literacy in the curriculum.
So I do not think it is the consumer’s fault, it is just that we do not place any value or actually orienting people toward of really confusing media environment and they get angry because their expectations are off.
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