Making informed decisions through critical thinking

Making informed decisions through critical thinking <Tab/>King Solomon once wrote, "Is there anything of which one can say, Look! This is something new?" (Ecclesiastes 1:10 NIV). This could never be as true as it is for media and the way people have chosen through the ages to interpret and act on what they have absorbed. Media, short for medium is defined in the dictionary as "an intervening substance in which something …

…his day, the French evaluated their situation, the propaganda machine of World War II brought Hitler to power and writers continued to persuade the public. Three critical thinking processes are necessary towards making informed decisions, questioning, evaluating and understanding the perspectives of the author. The way information is presented has not changed much in five hundred years, only the way it is delivered to us. However, it still takes critical thinking to get it right.