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In the seventh paragraph, Williams says "There are television networks that already agree to you views, i Pods that play music that you already know you like, Internet programs ready to filter out all but the news you want to hear." The major problem Williams sees with the current media landscape is that people see and listen to things they want to hear. People should be getting information from all different sources, with different point-of-views; they should be informed of the complicated world. He sees the danger being that people would miss the "next great book or the next great idea, or that [they will] fail to meet the next great challenge ... because [they] are too busy celebrating [themselves] and listening to the same tune [they] already know by heart (last paragraph)."
The major problem Williams sees with the new-media landscape is that there are a lot of information people need to know but people are too busy celebrating themselves that Williams fears that one is missing the important things. Williams fear is shown in paragraph eight “the danger just might be that we miss the great book, or the next great idea, or that we fail to meet the next great challenge” which shows that Williams fears that the society is being driven too much on self- interest that is causing the citizens to miss essential information.
Williams describes a major problem with media in paragraph seven when he says "It is now possible - even common - to go about your day in America and consume only what you wish to see and hear." This truth that Williams expresses to the readers proves that people now a days have the ability to filter the media and many times do so and end up not finding out about important news in life. Most people that filter media are too busy honoring and celebrating themselves to take the time and listen to news that does not affect them directly.
The major problem with the new-media Williams sees is that the new-media emphasizes too much in "what [we] wish to see and hear" (paragraph 6) instead of important information. He says that something bad might be happening, but we will be too busy in ourselves that we might not notice it. William also states that the new-media about celebrating ourselves might affect the future by saying that "the whole notion of "media" is no much more democratic, but what will the effect be on democracy?" (Paragraph 9)
As Williams describes, the new-media landscape is nothing like it was back in his day. In Williams’ day there were not many television channels and media was nothing big. He compares the media in his time to the media today. Hands down, the media today is more advanced and is taking over most Americans. Instead of having three television networks like they did back then we have hundreds. The media is nothing real. It tells Americans what they want to hear, instead of the cold, hard, truth. That is the problem the media is having, they are hiding Americans from what is really going on out in the world around them.
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