The Limitations of the 'News Ecosystem' Metaphor

Metaphors are useful, until they’re not. A few years ago, I taught basic ecology to preschool students, using a tarp as a teaching tool. I would help a group of small children gather on the blue piece of plastic, explaining that each child represented an animal, and the confines of the blue plastic square represented their home. Over time, I would fold the tarp in halves as the “ecosystem”

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