I looked into the topic a bit more, and found this exchange, which I think makes sense to me.

From The Diamond Age:

That the highest levels of the society received news written with ink on paper said much about the steps New Atlantis had taken to distinguish itself from other phyles.

Now nanotechnology had made nearly anything possible, and so the cultural role in deciding what should be done with it had become far more important than imagining what could be done with it. One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning; so the higher one rose in the society, the more similar one's Times became to one's peers'.

News has an important social function, and it's often more important to read the same news as your peers than it is to read the news that is the most interesting to you.

Inside Out was amazing because it didn't have a villain. In contrast, The Little Prince portrays all "normal" adults as villains. I never noticed this when I read the book years ago. Youthful angst is a frustration with being forced to obey rules that one can't understand. Prince proposes resolving that dissonance by looking inward, and denigrates the customs of others as senseless and not worth interacting with. Contrast this French approach with the Japanese one in here.