In his article “Argumentation in a Culture of Discord”, Cioffi criticizes the way our contemporary media view argument and offer s his own perspective on view argument and argumentation. On our contemporary media view argument, Cioffi believes that our current media fail to offer a forum for actual genuine debate: they are neither pursuing real inquiries nor grappling with complex puzzle. Instead what they offer is the easy route: they provide two sides of arguments and the audience have to pick one over another. In other words, the media way of arguments fail to take counter-arguments into consideration. Thus, the problems arise with the media definition is that our younger generations fail to understand the concept of “arguments” proposed
