And she laughed again — even harder — when Lord Grantham, the estate’s patriarch, balked at his young niece Lady Rose’s suggestion that Downton Abbey get (gasp!) Downton Abbey is a place where picking up the wrong fork at dinner is a sin on par with manslaughter, as is walking into the servants’ quarters unannounced and wearing to supper what you wore to lunch. But even more the result of the very revolutionary online media we’ve had to navigate, an innovation as problematic as, yes, the radio once was. Like the characters on Downton Abbey (both upstairs and down) we too live at the relative dawn of a new century, in a state of social, technological and political flux. We have a duty to ourselves, to our democracies and to future generations to brush up on our media literacy skills.

Source: thestar November 22, 2016 11:26 UTC