Janice and I have been doing a media literacy unit for the past three years, tweaking it yearly to find the right mix of topics to make it relevant and interesting to the kids.
This spring I wanted to include the Dove 'Campaign for Real Beauty', but we deemed it unsuitable for the crew we were dealing with. However, I hope we'll be able to use it with this year's crop.
Then, this summer, I sawa a story on CNN about a 14-year-old model who was told she was 'obese' when she hit size 4 (no, really). You can see it here for yourself at
http://http://www.glamourgirltips.com/2008/08/size-4-teen-model-called-obese.html
I was especially struck by the comment by the creator of the mini-documentary referred to in this piece; he said that we are on the way to 'moral decay' if this is what we've come to (I'm paraphrasing, to be sure).
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