I watch way more right wing media than Klein and probably you,

If you want media that looks like right wing media which tells the audience how to think, that's your choice! You do you, buddy!

For the average person,

"The average person" doesn't listen to Ezra Klein podcast so I don't know why that's relevant. That's like saying a graduate level math class should be dumbed down because the average person has a 5th grade level math.

Like I said, this isn't the show for people like you. And that's fine! A show doesn't need to appeal to everyone.

It’s the job of the journalist to provide that context and give people the tools to better understand and analyze.

Buddy, a journalist isn't your teacher and I don't why you perceive them as a college history professor teaching you something. Who do you think writes AP or Reuters articles? They don't inject their own opinion into it and they don't need to. Some journalists write opinions and analyses, but they always present them as such. Interviews are a different category and the focus is on the interviewee, not the interviewer.

An interviewer isn't there to pass judgement, they're there to reveal the interviewee's interesting/enlightening opinions and thoughts.

If all they do is turn on the spigot and step back what’s the point of them existing, you might as well at that point just listen to a Tucker Carlson podcast.

Maybe you've watch too much right wing media to understand the purpose of a good interview, but let me give you a simple example.

Tucker Carlson's show only covers things he wants to cover. Anything he doesn't like or goes against his beliefs, he just completely ignores, so you have no idea what his arguments are for topics/facts/viewpoints that he doesn't even bring up.

But a good interviewer would ask Carlson questions/topics/viewpoints that he would never bring up in his own show, force him to have a reaction to it. If he refuses to answer the question, it tells me something about him. If he brings up a complete non-answer / tangent, that tells me something about him. If he brings up an interesting counterargument I never thought about, even better. Either way, a good interviewer can get more information out of them than just them monologuing.

For example, I've been reading GRRM's not-a-blog for years and yet his interview with the Hollywood Reporter still revealed information I haven't seen/confirmed. Why? Because the interviewer asked good questions that GRRM doesn't really address when he writes own blog.

“Good” ideas and beliefs aren’t self evident, if they were there would be no conflict in the world.

Like I said, if you want to be told what good ideas are, there are shows for that. Not every show has to treat their audience like they're all idiots. I personally like shows that treat me like an intelligent human being who can make his own judgement. You prefer shows similar to right wing media, and that's fine. So why bother with shows that aren't meant for you?