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Media literacy? It's not a phrase I remember as having heard before. So I don't see it as something needing individual interpretation. Literally, it means the reading ability or achievement of the various methods of news reportage. I would expect that most of those involved in that enterprise would be at least vaguely capable in the matter of literacy, although hoping for the quality of their reading experience and resultant abilities is, perhaps, hoping for too much. Or it could be a reference to the news consumer's breadth of experience in reading the news media. Much depends on the context in which the phrase is used. Of course, one could also take the word "media" in its broader sense and assume that it means that which carries something else. Even those gifted with second sight could then be said to be media. But the relevance of their literacy then becomes a little moot. Best to take it in its more limited sense as "news media" in that case. |