Media Literacy

For myself, I never thought my media literacy education was anything unusual. Ever since about 7th grade I was in some sort of class, or one of my classes spent a whole few weeks every semester talking about the media and how to consume it. Throughout High School I had different types of classes such as Contemporary Issues or World of Ideas, or an entire Media Class in which we just studied the different types of media out there. However, discussions in this Capstone class have let me realize that not everyone in this country have the same opportunity. For me, it is nothing special to think, "What is this commercial after?" or "What is this story really trying to say?" I do not know really who should be responsible for this type of education. IF schools were capable of doing it I would put it on them, but budgets and whatnot do not realistically allow for every school to include these special kinds of electives. I think society in general should try to educate itself when it can about Media Literacy.