Author Archives: A.Morales

Eland, reading response.

“What do we see when we look closely at what actually compromises the mass media? We see a system dominated by five to seven major corporations.” This stood out to me while reading, “Critical Thinking, Deviant Knowledge and the Alternative Press” by Thomas Eland. The section of this article uses a newspaper as an example by saying, sections of newspapers are consciously aimed at specific groups. If the above statement is true then it raises questions such as, the people that are in charge of what goes out into the media, would their suggestions be biased? Are the people putting the stories out consciously aiming at specific groups?

Badke, reading response.

What caught my attention while reading “Research Strategies” by William Badke, was when “the people had been forced from their city homes into the jungle.” Badke says, their knowledge of what was edible and what was deadly once carried by their ancestors had to gradually be rebuilt into their knowledge base. The first question that came to mind was, what other knowledge carried by our ancestors has been lost? Also, in relation to what’s edible and what’s deadly, I thought about what Badke said which is, we have to be the gatekeepers and discern the difference of getting our information from people who really know what their writing about verses the average person that selects the first five results from a Google search doing very little evaluation of their relative quality.