Advertising's Threat to Inner Peace / Media Literacy Programs

PEACE TALKS RADIO host Paul Ingles postulates that advertising of all

kinds crowds our brains with messages that may not help us to inner peace

or peace among us. Many of us just let TV, radio and online ads wash over

us in our homes, cars and through our devices. We talk with three media

educators who think teaching young people and adults to critically analyze

ad messages may help us build some immunity to the persuasive power the

ads ply to our minds, and to our attitudes about ourselves or each other.

We'll ask our guests, media literacy advocates and teachers, about it. And

while the idea of teaching media literacy in schools has been kicked

around for about 25 years, to promote critical analysis by students of

advertising and other mediated messages, the movement hasn't really taken

off.