By Olivia Winslow
Newsday
Published: 10/23/2006
Excerpt:
Seeking to help students become more discerning consumers of news,
Stony Brook University is to announce today a $1.7 million grant from a
journalism foundation to create what college officials believe is the
nation's first university-wide course in "news literacy."
The goal, said Howard Schneider, dean of Stony Brook's new journalism
school and the former Newsday editor, is to "help people sort through
this avalanche of information. ... This is a critical skill for
citizens of the 21st century because of the unprecedented amount of
information." ...
...
Roy Peter Clark, vice president and senior scholar at the Poynter
Institute, a school for journalists in St. Petersburg, Fla., and a
Stony Brook alumnus, said that with so much media proliferation, it's
"hard to tell which ones are reliable."
And in light of what Clark called "radical political polarization ...
that leads to people only believing messages they want to hear,"
Schneider said. "One of the hardest things we have to do is get people
on all sides of the political spectrum to be open to information that
doesn't conform to previously held beliefs and biases."
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