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I found these articles to be a pretty interesting read. Some areas I could already  guess to be true while other areas of the article surprised me entirely. The first article by Jolls and Wilson talked about media literacy on a broad scheme of things from the past to present. England and Canada were really the first two countries to experiment with the word “media literacy”. The U.S came along later and began researching media literacy based on the knowledge of other countries and used them to see the effects with the radio. A quote in this article that really stood out to me was by Marshall McLuhan which said “how one receives a message is just as important as the message itself”. This quote I think is really important because it shows that we can become knowledgeable by looking at the who, what, why, how, etc. of a piece of media. I agree with the article when it states that questions really are key when it comes to understanding media. However it is also rare for people to question things as it is much easier to just accept something for what it looks like. The article also explained how the same piece of media can have dozens of different interpretations based on the views, beliefs, and self-evaluation of the person looking at it. The last two article dealing with “Children as Consumers” and the “Health System by the University of Michigan” was a spot on yet troubling read. For the media to mainly spend all their time money and effort to advertise and manipulate children seems criminal. Also with how much TV watching goes on in basically every single household kids and pre-teens are suffering health wise and socially. The younger generation aren’t as active and see ads for fatty foods and so on. However on the flip side TV can be an entertaining and positive thing. It comes down to having everything in a balance not having too much or too little.