I have a friend who was a special ed/ behavior responder at a couple of high schools in the Madison area, and is now the teacher's union president. He recently posted on facebook about the difference in news coverage of violence at schools in different communities in Madison. He wrote that any violence at schools with higher black populations leads to the newspapers writing about how they took police officers out of the schools. Violence at the majority white schools leads to articles about mental health supports. I suppose the murals are speaking truth to power, but the mainstream media in Madison certainly isn't. [(https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime-and-courts/melee-at-east-high-school-started-with-dispute-over-boy-ended-with-gunfire/article_e95ba921-da3c-56d0-a236-c63b19f63aea.html)] [(https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/fights-prompt-questions-regarding-madison-school-district-decision-to-remove-sros/article_7dbbfe8d-6de8-5422-891c-bc399c8be046.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1)]

The lead singer of the band Skillet is using critical theory to accuse Rage Against the Machine of being "government rock" based on their support of vaccines, compared to his condemnation of tyranny. So yes, anyone can use music as a vehicle, but anyone can also use critical lenses! [(https://consequence.net/2021/12/skillet-rage-against-the-machine-government-rock/)]

The authors showed their second mandate of using a critical media education lens (to "examine issues of power as part of the production and distribution of media"), but they didn't make it explicit. The authors lead the reader to question the motives of the founders of the News Literacy project by describing their funding and mission as all being newspaper related. This has the effect of leading the reader to believe that the News Literacy Project has economic incentive to encourage the consumption and trust of mainstream media. I don't know why the authors didn't make this accusation explicit.

This goes back to how newsmedia is monetized through the internet. The number of clicks on sites depends on emotional reactions. On Succession this week Ken accused Logan of "turning bile into silver."

Issues of power as part of the production and distribution of media reminds me of the television show Succession. I'm interested to see where this paper is going on that thread of thought. Will it focus on the choices of people in positions of power (Murdoch, Zuckerburg, etc.), or the effects of that power?

Here's a video about heuristics.