Media Literacy is “a set of perspectives that we actively use to expose ourselves to the media to interpret the meaning of the messages we encounter.” The purpose is to “gain more control over programming how you interact with the media messages and construct your own meaning from them.”
“Max Headroom” was a short-lived TV series that aired from 1987-1988. It was a look into the future kind of TV show that was about the news station Network 23. The episode that we watched was called “War.” In this episode another news station called Break Thru TV planned different “terrorist” attacks so that they could be the first to report on them therefore making them better then Network 23.
The thing that stuck out most to me in this episode was the media content. Break thru TV went too many extremes to plan what was going to happen so they could report on it right away showing that they had control over the programming of their show. However, the news stories that Break thru TV reported on right away probably wouldn’t have occurred if they weren’t trying to come out on top. This goes to show that sometimes the content we receive from media is not always accurate, even if it is the news.
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