Conservative influencers

  With more and more pressure building on social media sites to be more proactive in the “woke” movement it makes it harder and harder to allow free speech. Over the last 8 years I have slowly watched more and more right leaning social media influencers get banned for posting their political opinions. With the …

What Counts as Base Level Civic Knowledge

For a while I pondered how to start this blog, tried a few different openers but none of them seemed to flow as well as I liked. I spent some time looking and I found a definition of “civic education” which I believe to be a good starting point to understand this concept.  “In a …

Thinking how media literacy can impact political campaigns?

With more and more people starting to realize that they can post anything online with little to no repercussions. It causes both sides of the political aisle to create false narratives to support their agendas. Working on multiple political campaigns I have seen first hand of misinformation being sent out by us and about us.  …

Why Does Media Literacy Even Matter?

Media literacy is a skill in being able to tell the difference between different types of media and what the meaning behind it is. In today's society with kids and adults talking in more and more social media memes and news it's important to be able to tell the difference between these forms of media …

Is New Age Journalism Bullshit?

Is New Age Journalism Bullshit? New age journalism is everywhere and there is almost no getting away from it. From wildly biased SNL skits to the links being shared all over social media that you always see when you log on. It has changed, it has gone from reporting the facts and important stories to …