I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous. Because to make good decisions, you need to have a clear view of what all the options are.

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.