Fake news: the solution is education, not regulation

Ah.. the education lobby. Anyway, the quiz is below. My superior education wasn't much help. I got 3/7 correct. As all 7 questions offered 3 choices, I reckon that's not significantly better than 2.333, which is what my dogs could do if I asked them to select from three treats placed in front of them in random order. The most depressing thing about this article is it's confirmation that educated people blame things they don't like on lack of education. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38005844

Much of the substantive content in this post is not as controversial as Ken.Charman would have us believe; even though it's difficult to fault his analysis of the Quiz. My problem, is in accepting the statement "Universities can also teach these skills to the wider community" - no!! they can't. It's a total myth that any concrete artisan skill can be taught let alone something as abstract as critical literacy. By all means educate students on the pitfalls of Journalistic licence; but when such Journalistic freedom is supplanted by an educational licence it's difficult to know which is worse.