Thanks, Jason. Like you, my first rule of catastrophe engagement is to find that community's local newspaper or TV online and check them for the facts. The Star Tribune has been putting out an astonishing amount of news. Well worth following.
This immediately transported me back to when you were at the News and how valuable your writing was to help people make sense of the Brownback administration and cut thru the propaganda and spin.
Brilliant approach to cutting through the noise. That shift from teaching media literacy 10 years ago to now subscribing to local papers shows how much the information landscape has degraded. Algorithms optimize for engagement, not truth, which is why verifying with boots-on-the-ground reporting matters so much. I've been doing something similar lately, paying for smaller regional outlets instead of getting everything filtered through national lenses that prioritize outrage.
Thanks, Jason. Like you, my first rule of catastrophe engagement is to find that community's local newspaper or TV online and check them for the facts. The Star Tribune has been putting out an astonishing amount of news. Well worth following.
This immediately transported me back to when you were at the News and how valuable your writing was to help people make sense of the Brownback administration and cut thru the propaganda and spin.
Brilliant approach to cutting through the noise. That shift from teaching media literacy 10 years ago to now subscribing to local papers shows how much the information landscape has degraded. Algorithms optimize for engagement, not truth, which is why verifying with boots-on-the-ground reporting matters so much. I've been doing something similar lately, paying for smaller regional outlets instead of getting everything filtered through national lenses that prioritize outrage.