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Native America Calling: Media literacy: the election version
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Media literacy: the election version
There is no break in election campaigns anymore.
Party operatives work long hours year round to find ways to bring voters to their side—or at least away from their opponents’ side. Even so, as the Midterm Election nears, information is moving at light speed and so much of it is exaggerated, misleading, and even false.
Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce provides tools the average citizen can use to make informed election decisions.
Guests on Native America Calling
Jason Begay (Navajo), associate professor at The University of Montana School of Journalism
Angela Willeford (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member), intergovernmental relations project manager at Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Adrian Jawort (Northern Cheyenne), transgender two-spirit journalist, fiction writer, fact checker, researcher and Political Director of Indigenous Transilience in Montana
Dr. Torivio A Fodder (Taos Pueblo), manager of the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Arizona
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