It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting way too long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host David Feldman.

Hello, David.

Good morning.

And we have the Man of the Hour Ralph Nader.

Hello, Ralph.

Hello, everybody.

We have infinite information at our fingertips every time we go online.

With the quality integrity of that information varies widely, and finding trustworthy info

among the trillions of irrelevant and misleading blog posts, news reports, requires luck,

or a very particular set of skills, as Liam Neeson would say, news literacy is that ability

to identify what news and other content is worth trusting, sharing and acting on.

And it's critical if we want to make informed choices about the products we consume, the

organizations we support, and the politicians we elect.

When our social media fees are overflowing with disinformation, and the news sources we've

trusted are packed with corporate-sponsored avatorials, how can we empower ourselves as consumers

and citizens?

That's one of the questions we'll put to today's guest, Alan Miller.

He spent decades working as an investigative reporter, then founded the News Literacy

Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit that's working to arm the public with the skills we

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