James Fallows New Media

The Modern Media Today’s media seems to feed the public with fascinating data that people as nation can relate to. Throughout the decades, the media has been actively trying to accumulate fascinating stories that people believe are accurate. Although the media provides extensive information over captivating topics, are the stories truly accurate? 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. Today’s media covers many social first world problems and that is what people like to hear. In James Fallows’ article, “Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media,” he discusses that aged media is diminishing with the

With the media providing information that the public wants to hear and not what the public needs to hear, Fallows explains that this technique is aiding the media in the correct direction to becoming successful in every aspect. Fallows goes on to discuss an interview he had with Nick Denton, the founder of several websites that created Gawker media. During the interview Fallows encountered a writer who worked for Gawker.com, Brian Moylan, who discussed his approach on writing and stated, “I just try to figure out, if I were to go to a party, what would everyone want to talk about? And that is what I’d want to write about” (Fallows 5). Fallows continues to discuss how technology has molded todays media by expressing, “As technological, commercial, and cultural changes have repeatedly transformed journalism, they have always caused problems that didn’t exist before, as well as creating opportunities that often took years to be fully recognized” (Fallows 9). I agree that technological changes have impacted journalism in way that created the media to only discuss topics that seem to arouse people’s curiosity and interest; a point that needs emphasizing since so many people still believe that everything they read fabricated by the media is accurate. Considering the fact that Fallows incorporated a quote from a genuine journalist, and also expressed his own thoughts connecting the public’s interest and technological advancements makes his argument on how media manipulates stories to peak public interest