Comment on ‘Climate villain’: scientists say Rupert Murdoch wielded his media empire to sow confusion and doubt
yip-bonk@kbin.social 1 year agoAnyone can be charged with any violation. He’s a billionaire who - specific to this scenario - gained much of his billions by using the press as a cudgel to get the political system to yield to him. He will never be held to account in his lifetime.
As a side note, it’s more clear every single day that media literacy and critical thinking must be core competencies for everyone. We’ve skated on this for a hundred years and the planet is almost dead.
Oneobi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People too busy pumping music into their heads to have any time to actually silently think.
Critical thinking is such a rare commodity.
Ithi@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
People too busy working multiple jobs because they’re drowning in debt I think is a lot more common of an issues. The way things have become allow very little time for critical thinking not.
Plus the whole issues of schools being underfunded. A lot of kids probably aren’t even learning critical thinking skills or even being taught the importance of them. Anytime pre-workforce or secondary education is spent enjoying life while they still can (at least that’s what I was told at that age to do).