Defeating Homophily

In the transcript of the interview between Brooke Gladstone and Ethan Zuckerman, Zuckerman points out the before unseen consequences where a culture has access to 'diverse views, surprising voices, and news we need', yet is trending towards the proverb of 'birds of a feather flock together' and only following the news that fits within their own frame of mind. Zuckerman points out that this overload of information created from the digital media has the potential impact of making our society stupid, as "we have the ability to pick and choose whatever it is that we want to look at, [and] we've gone from a supply problem to a demand problem."Additionally, he poses the question of "how do we build an Internet that doesn't just show us what we want to see but also does a pretty good job of showing us what we need to see?" This question would lend itself to the solution that editorial overview is necessary in making sure that citizens of society are exposed to 'all of the news fit to print' to quote The New York Times in order to delay or impending stupidity.  However, this solution immediately leads to the new question of how we could force our citizens to analyze news that has been put forth by a large collection of biased (but ethical and reliable) journalists. Or, we could have the House of Representatives and Senate appoint a chief news editor who would create a daily print/online media source to be distributed in all public areas containing the top ten stories daily that are not being focused on by major media in order to create differentiated interest within the public. Granted, homophily would be created by the public all reading the same publication; hopefully, this publication would only serve as a stepping stone for the public to discover some of the other media on the Internet.