It’s been a tough few days hasn’t it? Lots of feelings on the latest news coming out of the state to the south of us (Minnesota). We’ve all likely seen at least a few clips and although I know there are absolutely awful, atrocious injustices and heartbreaking events taking place all around the world—Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, etc.—all of this ICE vs. civilian stuff has been hitting in a different way. At least for me. Yesterday I watched a clip of…
I listened to the full CBC Tapestry interview with John Stackhouse the other day and have a few thoughts not necessarily on the content of the episode as much as the hope I have in Canadian media. For a public-broadcaster, it’s no secret that the CBC skews left. I do, too, but that’s not the point. Everyone/entity skews one way or the other. That’s reality. It’s the willingness to fairly represent the other that should serve as the litmus test…
Media is a tricky thing. I should say, discerning truth as the media presents it is a tricky thing. I had the fortune of teaching a course on this very topic at our community college this past fall and the two-fold conclusion I came to after all was said and done was this: Media is an inescapable, all-pervasive and completely saturated reality in our advanced, technology-dependent, capitalistic world Learning how to discern and think critically about the media we consume…