Cicero, back in around 45 BC, argued that anxiety is not an actual medical illness? “[M]ental anguish is a choice, something adopted voluntarily”. He believed that mental disorders were caused by misjudgements that make us feel intense emotion. To him, the cure was not medicine, but philosophy – or, in modern terms, self-help. In his own experience with severe depression after the death of his beloved daughter, he came to the conclusion that “we must exert all effort we can muster to push past and become our own healers”. Read full article here
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Improving media literacy could boost trust towards the news, IMPRESS report suggests
The UK media is regulated by the likes of IPSO and Ofcom. The report by press regulator IMPRESS highlights the link between low levels of media literacy and trust in the news. The study found that three quarters of those who did not know if journalists were regulated did not trust the news. It suggests that improving media literacy is one way to stem the erosion of trust, and shows that audiences have an appetite for information on news processes. Stakeholders need to collaborate in order to rebuild trust in the news, and independent media is well placed to do this. Read full article here
Merv
February 1, 2023
