One of the worrying things about this in light of your particular charge here about the media wanting eyes is that a lot of media literacy rhetoric--I haven't seen a class and I'm sure details matter--is that a lot of it focuses on identifying trusted sources.

The problem these days is that the situation has gotten so bad that misinformation has been leaking into even the most supposedly reputable media sources. The idea of what is actually a trustable source has gotten considerably more complicated as people who themselves are caught in echo chambers of some degree go into media and then are responsible for promulgating accurate information. The dividing line between opinion pieces and factual reporting grows thin, even at times at places that pride themselves on the accuracy of their reporting like the New York Times. (It has been thin for a long time on the right--the left-leaning outlets aren't worse, but what is news is that they're getting worse.)

If one had to choose between the New York Times and Fox News, of course the choice would be clear...but a couple decades ago there was hardly any point fact-checking the NYT, and now...well...if it's a culture-war type issue, you'd probably better.