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.
This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.
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.