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News literacy is the best way to think about and respond to all the media choices that are available. News literacy is a tool we can use to sharpen our instincts about the news and to sort out the important from the merely interesting. Most of all, news literacy is about sustaining our democratic values by questioning what we consume via various media outlets.

This is not to say that we need to be overly suspicious or cynical. But in this digital food court, not everything on offer is worth consuming. We need to choose wisely. That doesn't mean that our news diet will be exclusively of kale, quinoa, and broccoli. We will need some sweets along the way. Just not perhaps as a main course…