May 15 2024 34 mins 2
The Rascals had a song out years back called ‘How Can I Be Sure’? And while those lyrics pertained to love, the same question could, and should, be posed today about the media content you are devouring from a range of sources–legitimate and sketchy. The ability to discern which is which gets harder by the day as content is vomited out in quantities that are staggering. Our guest, Nolan Higdon, is a prolific writer and lecturer on the topic of media literacy in this baffling age. He has authored a number of books to help us become a model media citizen. In his view we need to answer several question about what we read and see: is the content journalism? who is publishing the content? What is the evidence? And there are others. What you are about to listen to is a wide ranging discussion of what’s available in this evolving, perhaps unraveling, digital media landscape and how you should prepare yourself to consume it.
