It is important for students and adults alike to understand the pervasive, corporate, global and continually developing nature of our news media. The news media do not occupy a realm somehow removed from our schooling system; indeed, they impact education in a wide range of ways, both directly and indirectly. However, for much of the time, most of us barely pay attention to the thousands of media messages to which we are exposed every day; and even when we do, we generally assume that those messages are both objective and neutral. This is a mistake. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, the media had had a significant role in influencing many aspects of schooling and public perception from one side to another, including in relation to pedagogy, ‘choice’ and using comparisons of the responses of different educational jurisdictions to the pandemic to direct the public gaze in different ways.
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