Media Literacy

Like most everyone else in my group, my media literacy experience started in college. I watched news sometimes but never with any regularity. The only time I picked up a newspaper was to do the crossword. In my Film Studies degree, I learned to pick apart the visual media - form and content. One class that made me look at a lot of things I had never thought about was Race, Gender, and Media. For instance, I never really looked at ethnic representation in television.
I had never thought about why who sends us what messages was important. I started getting skeptical about what information was being left out of stories in my newscast. I still don't watch much news but I read plenty of news online from a variety of sources. I feel better about how and what I watch now, that's for sure.