Political Media Literacy

I think the barest minimum literacy for information about politics and political figures requires an understanding of the political biases of sources.  Also the understanding that any analysis of a source as unbiased is 1.) wrong and 2.) shows a lack of understanding of political bias and how it works.  In addition, it's not enough to be able to recognize distortions of fact (though this is also endemic in political bias), one must also recognize what narrative is being constructed about an event or person with those facts.

Sorry to Bother You

So I watched Sorry to Bother You (2018) and so now I'll be marinating some thoughts about that movie for a while. I thought it was an amusing and fairly thoughtful film about class consciousness, which really goes some off the wall places with its magical realism/surrealism/bizarre sci-fi approach that nonetheless fit seamlessly into the more realistic elements of the story.  I think the storytelling style definitely helps to add visual interest to the telemarketing scenes, which might otherwise be much more visually static.  It takes a fairly lighthearted approach at probing its serious themes.  I'll probably have more thoughts after I've had more time to think about it, but I just wanted to give some first impressions here.