Critical thinking and media literacy are essential aspects in interpreting, analyzing, and comprehending the impact of media in our lives. Critical thinking involves the ability to analyze information, ideas, or texts, using observation, experience, reasoning, and logic to reach informed conclusions. It goes beyond the superficial understanding of a text or idea, exploring the underlying intentions or arguments behind them. When applied to the media, we question what is presented to us, trying to decipher implicit, hidden, or subliminal messages. Media literacy entails looking beyond the obvious in media. It means learning to "read" the media to uncover underlying meanings in a text. Through media literacy, we seek to understand messages that may be overlooked at first glance. This can be both intentional, such as when we consciously analyze an advertisement to understand marketing strategies, or accidental, when we discover deeper meanings in songs we've listened to for...