The first step to bursting the bubble is admitting it exists. For the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point.

We often hear how mainstream media is biased toward one side of politics. Those who control the news, it seems, live in a kind of “bubble” safe from the views of many Americans.

And now there’s data showing just how real the bubble is. Jack Shafer and Tucker Doherty at Politico report that out of 150 counties with the highest concentration of newspaper and Internet publishing jobs, a whopping 72 percent are counties Hillary Clinton won in November. An outright majority—51 percent—are in dark blue counties where Clinton won by more than 30 points!

And it’s getting worse. In 2008, almost 40 percent of media jobs were in Republican counties. Now it’s down to 27 percent. The lesson? Despite being the most connected society in history, in some way’s we’re more isolated and polarized along political lines than ever before. We’ve got to start puncturing these bubbles, or we’ll only become more hateful and suspicious of one another.