> My point isn't to stop reading different stuff, but consciously choose what you want to read.

Thanks – the first point is the important one, the latter ideally should be a no-brainer. :)[0]

> But I'll choose reading a good article to watching trash TV or gossip news any time of the day.

Of course, the heuristics that icebraining mentioned come into play here, in a validity to the extent that it is generally safe to assume little to no information on trash TV.

However, heuristics are still heuristics and there are – in my experience – always sufficiently many borderline cases where heuristics will fail and the love-it-or-leave-it attitude makes you stick to one particular newspaper[1], leading you to become uninformed about the arguments of the ‘other side’.

[0] If someone could make a rule please about the relative position of emoticons and punctuation…

[1] Granted, the internet alleviated that issue somewhat, but just the choosing of news Google delivers to you based on your past reading might act somewhat like that, recreating the bubble that was formerly built by newspapers.