For those who were too lazy to read the reading (TL;DR lmao) it was basically about the failure of MEDIA LITERACY doing its job. And what is its job, you ask?

It’s

• critically asking who is publishing the content
• whether the venue is respectable
• and biases the author may have

One example I’d like to talk about is one of the most recent event – the United Airlines “incident” involving a POC (Person of Colour) and the police. For those who have been keeping up with the recent news over the past five years, racial issues have rose significantly in several media outlets with headlines of police brutality and their abuse of power. The combination of a POC getting harmed by the police was enough to spark several news outlets reporting about it. Some sympathise for the victim whilst others decided to demonise the victim (maybe because he was Asian? there could be many reasons for that but I believe it was because he was a POC).

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Now you see where I’m heading with this, right? News outlets have the power to expose the stakeholders but it is out job as an audience to detect the favouritism of media, I suppose. Otherwise, I can’t say too much about news agencies because I don’t know what goes beyond their mindset and motives.

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