Into the Fold, Episode 104: Improve Your Media Literacy During COVID

October 27, 2020 00:23:59
Into the Fold, Episode 104: Improve Your Media Literacy During COVID
Into the Fold: Issues in Mental Health
Into the Fold, Episode 104: Improve Your Media Literacy During COVID

Oct 27 2020 | 00:23:59

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Show Notes

To say that the media has a public trust problem, earned or not, is an understatement. How should we evaluate the media’s coverage of the pandemic, and how can we all become more savvy media consumers? Joining us to help make sense of these questions is Dr. Timothy Caulfield, Professor of Law at University of Alberta, Canada, Research Director of the Health Law Institute and current Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. He is the author of the national bestseller The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and Happiness (Penguin 2012) and Relax, Dammit!: A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety (Penguin Random House, 2020). Related links: Episode 40: Mental Health and Media: Stop Raising Awareness Already https://hogg.utexas.edu/mental-health-and-media

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