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Originally Posted by Omah

The world SOME of us live in - most of the world lives in poverty :

http://www.globalissues.org/article/...and-stats#src1



How will media studies help them ?

What is the relevancy of that? Mathematics doesnt solve the issue of global poverty either but clearly the media absolutely dominates society today, it is so influential.

Originally Posted by Omah

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/...eracy-numeracy



Given the increasing amount of "media" availability in the last 20 years in the form of cheap computer and communication devices, no improvement in reading, writing and 'rithmetic represents a comparative decline and is an indictment of the electronic age .....

So reading has improved, and writing has but not by very much (and its only a short period of time), not declined as you were saying. That just goes to show standard of education has improved, even if it isnt as quick as you might like