According to James Fallows, in his article “Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media,” today’s media has a more profit-based purpose then older media, and although it may be entertaining, it often distracts from what is actually important. Fallows begins by talking about how through the 1980’s, media was about gathering information that the public needed to know. No one knew what profit could come from media, as Fallows puts it “no one had bitten into that apple yet.” Instead of being an audience who receives information we are consumers who want to be entertained. Issues that won’t matter in the future, but make for entertaining media today have begun to dominate elections. Politicians have found ways to distract from