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The first thing I would say about expanding your worldview with consumption of the news is if you are a CNN watcher, I would not suggest you watch Fox News. That doesn’t help. Because people that love CNN that watch Fox News, hate watch Fox News, and they use that to confirm the fact that all of these people are idiots. It is not useful. What you need to do is watch something that is completely orthogonal from CNN. I think the best way to do that is watch the CBC, the “Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,” ’cause they’re kind of like Americans, but they’re not Americans. And they look at the United States with curiosity and concern. And we affect them a lot in a way that they don’t affect us very much, and so they pay a lot of attention. And you go, “Wow. Is that really the way we’re perceived and that’s what they think is important?”
It’s hard to keep that away. For more advanced viewers, I would say, how about “Deutsche Welle” in English? How about a little “BBC”? Some “Al Jazeera” and “HK” in Japan? They all cover the world and they cover more U.S. than other countries, because we’re the most powerful. But we’re not the only country that matters in the world. And you certainly don’t have the level of Trump focus, because, for other countries, like, when he’s not president, he doesn’t matter. And yet in the U.S. you’d think that’s all we’re talking about because it drives eyeballs.
So you want to get away from what corporate media is giving you in the U.S., because that drives clicks that are relevant for them, when you aren’t the client, you are the product. You want to be actively making consumer decisions where someone else is the product. That choice is a fundamentally hard thing to do in today’s environment.