Life in an echo chamber

While the shutdown of one major newspaper after another might simply be a sign of the times, Nicholas Kristof explores the danger of reading only information that suits our personal preference in "The Daily Me": 

The decline of traditional news media will accelerate the rise of The Daily Me, and we’ll be irritated less by what we read and find our wisdom confirmed more often. The danger is that this self-selected “news” acts as a narcotic, lulling us into a self-confident stupor through which we will perceive in blacks and whites a world that typically unfolds in grays.