The thing about "media literacy" that remains problematic (and it's not your fault!) -- journalists expect a mass audience to understand a complex set of practices and norms unique to their profession, like it's part of "civics" class (that doesn't exist).
So when I read this, I think, "but yes, that's largely the journalism industry's fault." There's no logical explanation for why celebrity media outlets are held to different responsibility standards than regular newspapers other than "understood norms developed by gossip reporters in the twentieth century that may or may not make sense in a 21st century ecosystem." Otherwise, why wouldn't Entertainment Weekly print Taylor's publiclist's name? There's no real logical reason for it, other than it's accepted in this weird corner of news.
Great defense of journalism! And,let’s be clear, it ain’t just Gen Z who lack media literacy - LAL and I appear to have A LOT of Boomer FHS classmates who more readily believe “a blogger/blogger from Paducah” over trained journalists. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
The thing about "media literacy" that remains problematic (and it's not your fault!) -- journalists expect a mass audience to understand a complex set of practices and norms unique to their profession, like it's part of "civics" class (that doesn't exist).
So when I read this, I think, "but yes, that's largely the journalism industry's fault." There's no logical explanation for why celebrity media outlets are held to different responsibility standards than regular newspapers other than "understood norms developed by gossip reporters in the twentieth century that may or may not make sense in a 21st century ecosystem." Otherwise, why wouldn't Entertainment Weekly print Taylor's publiclist's name? There's no real logical reason for it, other than it's accepted in this weird corner of news.
Great defense of journalism! And,let’s be clear, it ain’t just Gen Z who lack media literacy - LAL and I appear to have A LOT of Boomer FHS classmates who more readily believe “a blogger/blogger from Paducah” over trained journalists. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
absolute killer piece. linking this x100000000 in my newsy this morning u legend 𓆩♡𓆪
TY!!! just read your piece—loved it!!!