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Unfettered criticism of news and media literacy education is essential in the search for best practices
A new piece in Columbia Journalism Review entitled News Literacy vs Media Literacy sets up an us-vs-them paradigm to position news literacy as fundamentally distinct from media literacy. Jihii Jolly, the reporter, even wonders why I was invited to the upcoming News Literacy Summit in Chicago, given that I view news literacy as simply one of the many flavors of media literacy to be included in media literacy’s “big tent.”
Perhaps, as the reporter suggests, the differentiation-conflict frame is simply the product of former journalists who are jockeying for advantage for privileged access to the patronage and largess provided by philanthropies like the McCormick, Knight and MacArthur Foundations.