This is so dumb. I remember reading a Fortune Article on “The Best Piece of Advice I Ever Got” with responses from some of the most influential and powerful people in the world (the likes of Gates and Buffett, etc.). One of the interviewees was Mohammed El-Erian, former CEO of PIMCO who shared this morsel:

“We were living in Paris, back when my father was Egypt’s ambassador to France. Each day we used to get at least four daily newspapers, from Le Figaro on the right side of the political spectrum to L’Humanité, which was the newspaper of the Communist Party. I remember asking my father, Why do we need four newspapers? He said to me, “Unless you read different points of view, your mind will eventually close, and you’ll become a prisoner to a certain point of view that you’ll never question.”

Sadly, a large share of our population here in the states are prisoners…Your father is not. Good for him.