Tough Times Tuesday is live. 🎉
Today, I use a news item from Colombia to offer a reflection on what's often missing in our news coverage.
Sometimes it helps to think about media literacy at a remove from the news cycles we're following at home--so hopefully looking at how the news reports on Petro's "Total Peace" can help clarify what's often missing in our own news ecosystems.
Are we given the data that best empowers us?
Or just data to scare, anger, and demoralize?
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-news-our-news-ecosystem-misses
@MLClark Thank you for the article. I enjoyed reading about the nuts-and-bolts of Colombian politics. Centrists always wind up being attacked by both extremes. The bane of those of us who just want to get stuff done.
Tearing down is easy! Building up is hard.
(And going "up" is, too, but apparently I have video of that to watch now! 🤗)