When we say media illiteracy, we need to specify that the "literacy" we are losing includes the ability to:
1. recognize mediation
2. discern irony (tone, framing)
3. separate effect from "intention"
All of these have to do with being able to read FORM.
The white man who plays evil french dracula in interview with the vampire is so attractive he's like if a lusciously maned stallion made a wish to be human
Obsessed with everyone being like "now they can use this an excuse to militarize the country" (they were already doing that) "and come after our rights" (they were alreading doing that) "and centralize power" (guess what... they were already doing that)