I intentionally listen to as many varied opinions as possible. For stories I try to find the source material and then can decide better for myself any bias.
The most interesting part is trying to explain to people when they are incorrect about a story. 50% of the time people won’t believe it even when presented with source material. One particular faction almost always ignores the facts.
A site I’ll recommend people to explore bias and all sides is https://ground.news/
It’s not perfect, but if you explore it you can at least see all perspectives and stories you may otherwise miss.
A few personal observations about echo chamber regions in news:
1. Corporate news (CNN, MSNBC, FOX, New York Times, Washington post, etc) is never the fastest or most detailed to report anything. Imo it’s completely government propaganda, primarily far-left leading.
2. Populist news & podcasters (New York Post, Daily Mail, Joe Rogan, Tim Pool, WarRoom Pandemic, Lex Friedman, Michal Malice, Eric Weinstein, Sam Harris, etc) typically breaks news or investigates topics which inform the listeners or readers. The discussions and articles are typically in-depth. Often this content is moderate, but can be left or right.
3. Pundits (NPR, DailyWire, John Oliver, stephen colbert, etc) they are critics, often masking their critics in comedy or discussion. News is never broken, but opinions are more digestible. These people are pitching their view point, rather than validating facts and are often incorrect in assertions. They range wildly from left to right, there are few moderates.
I think those are the three broad categories of media echo chambers. People tend to fall into one branch of one of those chambers, so “left populist” news or “right pundits”. Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the best way to form opinions. I really wish there was straight news, but there’s really not a ton of journalism. Most of the “journalism” is really done by the populists or podcasters who end up interviewing experts for long conversations.
“Information” seems to primarily spread via social media, and imo that’s why journalism is limited. Corporate news can simply respond to Twitter trends. Podcasters tend to go into interesting topics with guests. And pundits do something in-between.