In Canada, we are either privileged or cursed (depending on who you ask) to consume the most American mass media outside the United States. We need a filter! What are the characteristics of this mega media empire, and how does it affect the people who are exposed to it? The Media Education foundation is exploring these and many more questions.

From their website: "The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical reflection on the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media."

"From films about the commercialization of childhood and the subtle, yet widespread, effects of pornography, pop-cultural misogyny and sexism, to titles that deal with the devastating effects of rapacious consumerism and the wars for oil that it drives, we offer resources designed to help spark discussion about some of the most pressing, and complicated, issues of our time, in one of the last independent spheres left in the society: the classroom. Our aim is to inspire students to think critically and in new ways about the hyper-mediated world around them."

Watch the videos on the website.