Why is media literacy important? Here's a beginning list of reasons from thinkers and leaders in the field.

•    20 Important Reasons to Study the Media
•    Bombarded by Barbie
•    Breaking Boundaries with Video Production: Inteview with Steve Goodman
•    Carnegie Corporation Endorses Media Literacy Education for Young Adolescents
•    Case FOR Media Literacy in Today's Schools
•    Catholic Church's Challenge: Critical Consciousness
•    Criteria for A Successful Media Education Program
•    Empowered Parents: Role Models for Taking Charge of TV Viewing
•    Finding Media Literacy Lessons Across the Curriculum
•    Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of Print
•    Literacy for the 21st Century: An Overview & Orientation Guide to Media Literacy Education
•    Literacy for the 21st Century: The Hope and the Promise
•    Making a Case for Media Literacy in the Classroom
•    Making Media Skills
•    Media Literacy Across the Curriculum
•    Media Literacy In Middle School
•    Media Literacy: Education for a Technological Age
•    Parents and Teachers: Team Teaching Media Literacy
•    Questioning the Media — Plus Essential Questions for Teachers
•    Screen-Agers...and the Decline of the "Wasteland"
•    Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement -- Circa 2001
•    Teaching the Media Child in the Digital Swarm: The Case for Media Education
•    Think. Interpret. Create: How Media Education Promotes Critical Thinking, Democracy, Health and Aesthetic Apppreciation
•    Thinking Critically about Media: Schools and Families in Partnership
•    We Learn by Doing: Making Media in the Classroom
•    Why Bother Watching?
•    Why Media Literacy? A Catholic Reflection
•    Why Study the Media? Thoughts from John Culkin
•    WORKSHOP REPORT: Integrating Media Literacy Across the Curriculum