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> media criticism 101

You have to understand that this is (likely purposefully on both sides) not compulsory or well-attended. Hell, it really should be a grade 9 required class but that would make it harder to lie to future constituents. Can't have that. Same with law and various other essential life skills like drivers ed which are conspicuosly absent from general curricula.

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I didn't mean it literally but in the idiomatic sense of being common knowledge if you're at all media literate (which I hope most HN readers are!) Where I'm from, media criticism has a fairly strong emphasis in the highschool (equivalent) curriculum, but definitely should be even stronger, especially in this post-truth era.

(Drivers' ed is hardly an essential life skill in many parts of the world, btw.)

Its far more important than most of the compulsory stuff you learn first of all, and second, its better to have thr schools manage it and get it done early when its easy to provision all the materials and obviously a car which not everyone has.

Lastly, media literacy is basically (as far as I'm aware) not really compulsory or required for most students. I'm saying it should be. They are the perfect age to learn about how these systems subjugate and weaponize their personal data, emotions, etc

Where is that at [country]?