HCRHS Media Lit

"Amazon has canceled plans to build a second headquarters in New York City, following pushback from residents and local lawmakers who were concerned about what the influx of high-skill, high-paying jobs would do to an area that's already facing fast gentrification."

"President Trump agreed to sign a spending bill to avoid another government shutdown but will declare a national emergency to fund the construction of a wall at the southern border."

"Interviewing an inebriated person at the scene may be more accurate than waiting until he or she is sober "

"The majority of the mainstream media is left leaning, as you can see from AllSides' media bias chart and nearly 600 media bias ratings. But in the age of Trump, is the media really left leaning, or do they simply appear left leaning in reaction to him - a president many perceive to be far right?"

"We're talking to fact-checkers and researchers about how they do what they do in an era of disinformation campaigns and news fatigue."

"In a paper published this week in Aging, Horvath and his colleague Ake T. Lu formally announced a project they've been teasing for a couple months now: a "time to death" clock called DNAm GrimAge that they claim can predict, better than any other tool, when a given person might die. It was announced in tandem with AgeAccelGrim, which provides a countdown to the year you'll develop cancer or coronary heart disease. The research has already captured the attention of the life insurance industry. After all, a solid death date could mean real savings when it comes to pricing policies."

"On its 15th anniversary, a look at how the site has changed social life by keeping weak connections on life support forever"

"It started as a viral tweet and video clip and ended in a political firestorm."

"Accounts vary of what happened when students faced an Native American elder in Washington. Steve Inskeep talks to Adam Benforado, author of Unfair who argues camera angles undermine our legal system."

"A suspended Twitter account appears to have help spread video of a controversial encounter between a group of Catholic school boys and a Native American elder."

"Public frustration with policing has led to calls nationwide for more cameras worn by officers. But what do those cameras actually reveal? Below, you'll answer questions about three videos of simulated interactions involving police officers."

"You may have heard that self-driving cars are safer than cars with human drivers. And that's probably true. Still, as driverless vehicles inch closer and closer to the country's freeways and side streets, we'll probably hear more and more about AI-controlled vehicles getting into deadly accidents. Even a perfect driver can't avoid every accident. So if a self-driving car finds itself in a situation where a deadly accident is inevitable, how should it make a decision to minimize the damage?"

"We knew we could be champions because the ones we watched on TV looked just like us. And we had already learned that to escape to a better life, we needed to be wearing a jersey. The jersey became a cape; our talents on the field became the superpowers we were recognized for. We were black boys. And to be born a black boy is to be born into athletics. Black fathers are often disappointed if their sons aren't good at sports. Not excelling at sports as a black boy meant not being cool - even weirder, it meant not really being black. When you're growing up as a black boy, it feels like the world tosses you a ball and says, Good luck. Go get 'em, Champ. We all believed we were the chosen ones who could do the impossible, what we saw so many before us fail to do: make it to the National Football League. Eventually, I did. But most of the black boys I spent my afternoons with, playing in imaginary Super Bowls, weren't at the lockers next to mine. Most of the black boys who picture themselves winning this Sunday's game will never play in a real one. And that's fine: Playing in the NFL isn't really - and shouldn't have to be - every black boy's dream. But black boys don't always know that their dreams off the field matter. They need the space to see other, diverse possibilities for themselves. Black boys shouldn't have to feel that being good at sports is the only way to be cool - or to be valued by the world. A jersey isn't the only cape a black boy can wear."

"Planning on quitting the social platform? A major new study offers a glimpse of what unplugging might do for your life. "

A media literacy resource.

"It is hard to escape mass media these days. Images and messages bombard us from the Internet, television, magazines, newspapers, radio, bill-boards. Societal messages can come from the government and education sectors, as well as more explicit industries such as beauty, health and fitness. Advertisers have worked hard to create images that make us feel as if we are lacking somehow, so that we want to buy their products. It is not just ideas about looks that we get from society. We also infer how our personalities, talents and achievements "should" be."

"Retail and Alexa are just the start of the path toward total domination"

"How will life change when every noise becomes a search prompt?"

" Despite dramatic changes in the form, the basic premise of advertising has remained unchanged-strangers with an agenda attempt to co-opt your attention and guide your thoughts. But technology has fundamentally changed the extent to which we experience advertising. Empowered by technology's inexorable expansion into every facet of our lives, modern advertising has become so ubiquitous that it is unavoidable. Every new technology has advertising potential, and the brands of our brave new world hate nothing more than wasted potential."

"What are we to believe, even when we see something with our own eyes? As Poynter senior faculty member Al Tompkins says, "The difference between accuracy and truth is context.'' That's the lesson when it comes to looking at the video of the standoff between Catholic high school students and the Native American drummer in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. We all saw what we saw. A young man wearing a Make America Great Again hat standing in front of a Native American banging a drum and chanting. But did we really see what we think we saw? Some of us saw a long video of the event. Some of us saw an abbreviated version. Some of us saw just a photo."