Here's how one journalist is breaking media echo chambers

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Here's how one journalist is trying to break media echo chambers:

"I grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, so swing county in the most important swing state.

…I'd always had this idea for a big tent media organization, a place where my friends and family from home could all read the same thing and actually meet and have a shared set of facts and also share a wide range of arguments, where they're being exposed to views from the left and exposed to views from the right.

…The number one piece of feedback we get from people on the right and the left is: 'I feel like I'm going less insane when I read your newsletter.'

…There's a reason in our political dichotomy that every conservative and liberal can tell you about Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…The left takes Marjorie Taylor Greene, and they'll find the worst thing she's ever said and her lowest moments as a human being, and they will say this person is representative of the current Republican Party…The right will take Alexander Ocasio-Cortez and isolate the dumbest thing she's ever said in an interview, and they'll say this person is representative of the Democratic Party.

But they'll have a hard time telling you who Representative Jake Auchincloss is, who's a moderate Democrat from Massachusetts.

…There are a lot of conservatives out there who are brilliant economists and thinkers who are standing up behind Trump's tariffs right now. Nobody on the left can tell you who they are.

…We try and bring forward the people who are making really compelling arguments. At least some of our newsletter is representing the best of the left and the best of the right, and I think that changes the way people feel about the country in a positive way."

-Journalist Isaac Saul, founder of Tangle

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