Learning To Love The Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media

In the James Fallows’ article, “Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media,” he discusses that old media is diminishing with the help of rapid technological advances which can have negative effects but also serve as an aid on new media to gain popularity and acceptance from the public consumers. Throughout this article, Fallows mentions that the aged media techniques are decreasing in importance as a result of the information containing details that are not important to the modern general public. According to Fallows, the goal of modern day media is to feed the consumers with articles the public wants to hear therefore eliminating any news that is actually useful to improve the major conflicts in the world. With the Internet
and technological devices in today’s world, it has become much easier and faster to retrieve the intriguing headlines that people want to discuss. Sex scandals with well-known public figures or what the latest trend is are topics that Fallows signifies as high importance to the society. Nevertheless media has been uprising because of the attention the scandalous headlines are grabbing. “I just try to figure out, if I go to a party, what would everyone want to talk about? And that is what I’d want to write about,” Brian Moylan states in Fallows’ article. Today’s media covers many social first world problems and that is what people like to hear. The popularity the media is gaining will continue to up rise but also have negative consequences and that is what Fallows is stating.