Does This News Make Me Look Fat? – How America's Junk Food Media Diet Makes Us Mentally Obese and the Diet Plan for Fitness

Despite rampant data consumption, Americans are epidemically misinformed or ignorant. So much, 20% of Americans still think the sun revolves around the Earth. Why such levels of ill-informed, corrupt reasoning? Does This News Make Me Look Fat? has the answer–and the solution. Our media diet. Media is food for the mind and through poor, fast-food like media choices, we're becoming "mentally obese" where "fatty" data of opinion and faux news crowd out our fact-driven mental muscle. This book, written by a marketing message professional, simplifies media analysis to a simple premise and solution: media nutrition works just like food nutrition. If you can be a food preparer for yourself and your family, you have the tools to take control of your media consumption for better mental health. This book shows you how to "taste" media to identify healthy and unhealthy media ingredients. Skills that let you make healthy content choices, not just tasty ones. And build a healthy fit mind!