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I suck at media literacy, but I have gotten better. I can't imagine learning any of it without the internet, and so over the course of my live, my personal media literacy has improved. I imagine there's lots of people like me.
On the other hand, I know a bunch of people who supposedly studied literary criticism at uni, and they're mostly a bunch of liberal Zionist (including literal genocide apologia) and other such reactionary crap, and so I can only conclude that the main thing they are taught in these classes is propaganda and sophistry, and not how to actually critically read anything.
A couple of decades ago, these educated morons would have had a near monopoly on literary opinions, while the unwashed masses had no say. So, no, I do not think, at all, that people have gotten worse overall in media literacy.
Some people get a degree to learn, some people get a degree so they can insist that their interpretation of things is the "correct" one inherently because they are smarter than people who didn't go to uni.
I think most people go to college these days for the higher wages / better jobs that supposedly comes with the degree. Whether you actually learn anything while there is secondary.
If money weren't a concern, I think I'd spend a decade just taking whatever classes interested me.
But there's no degree or accreditation I particularly want, so I ain't about to pay for that shit.
For something like a degree in "media analysis" though? I doubt anyone studying that expects a job to come out of it.
When that's what university is mostly pushing, that's what people who don't question learn.