I write a bunch about this. There is often a sense that the more news we consume, the more informed we are. My research shows the opposite, where where news giv

I write a bunch about this. There is often a sense that the more news we consume, the more informed we are. My research shows the opposite, where where news gives us a deeply biased view of the world ( https://www.nemil.com/s/part3-horror-films.html https://www.nemil.com/s/part3-horror-films.html ). For many of us, we use media to make important decisions — and a lot of the coverage isn't well suited for that purpose. In this social media era especially, so much of the news you see covered is a function of what will get engagement. It even applies to things like which wars will be covered in the US (one NY Times reporter makes this point in coverage of Yemen vs Syria). Here's a media literacy guide I wrote: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media (BTW, media literacy is esp critical for engineers, given how much thinly disguised marketing well funded tech companies put in front of engineers, esp in cryptocurrencies. See this media literacy guide for software engs: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/software-engineers-media-guide.md https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/softwar... )