In Learning To Love The (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media, James Fallows expertly gives a general view of what the “New Media” is and how it affects the world today. Fallows discusses media’s change over time, the dying art of journalism, and how citizens of today must “[face] the inevitability of the shift to infotainment.” According to Fallows, the new media is difficult to understand, because of how contradictory it is. Although citizens complain about the lack of “real” information, it is infotainment that people truly want to read about. Journalism is also a shifting environment due to its competitive nature. Likewise, when Fallows visited the Gawker Media headquarters, he noted that media upkeep is all about seeing what is big,
