But then I found myself trapped inside the halls of academia feeling like I was nuts. And then I discovered a little column titled Common Sense. Thank you for providing a way out these last several years.
I am a subscriber to tfp and will happily continue with it because much of your journalism is first class. However, a few things irk me. Bari Weiss is a shameless self promoter who understandably wants to keep promoting “the brand,” but it does occasionally enter puke inducing territory. I don’t need to be constantly reminded of the lofty mission she believes she is on. We’ll see how her principles hold up when a mainstream corporate buyer comes in to capitalize on her mostly great work. Secondly, in my 40+ years in corporate life I’ve seen this movie before: mostly youngish staffers believe they are doing god’s work and changing the world. This syndrome starts infecting judgement and knocks the product down a peg. Thirdly, the blind spot on Israel is so obvious to this Zionist Jew (me) and over the past year has echoes of North Korean media. The coverage of global antisemitism has mostly been excellent and vital, but the dearth of journalistic voices telling a different story on the current middle east wars is such a miss for tfp and I suspect is guided by the “she who must be obeyed” editor. Like I said , I am a very happy free press subscriber but not a blind one.
Although this piece comes off a little too self-congratulatory, I am still thankful to have a lucid place to go in between the legacy media extremes. Keep up the good work. Thanks to my daughter for tuning me in. Cheers!
“ They saw it because we wrote about the lie that many tried to deny about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity. ”
For a guy unfit to be president, his administration got a lot of big things done through a very antagonistic Congress and foreign leaders appear to trust him. TFP, Republicans and some Democrats take great glee in claiming he is no longer competent to be president, yet no one has shown an action or a position he has taken that is irrational.
The last thing we need are decisions being made by non elected anonymous figures who won’t be held accountable for their shit ideas. That’s what we had with the Biden Admin. This guy was not running the show.
A fair assessment is that Biden has a team behind him that by committee are making policy decisions. Granted they have done some good work but if the country was meant to work that way they would not have hidden his decline from the people.
Hopefully, every president has a good team behind them. /While never mentioned in campaigns, the ability to assemble such a team is a critically important skill set.
"At The Free Press, we are of no party. We carry water for no politician. Just as Free Press readers weren’t surprised by Trump’s win, you won’t now be cocooned from his flaws. Our commitment remains the same today as it was yesterday: to pursue the truth and to tell it plainly.". Not completely true, mesdames and monsieurs. You're a little biased on the right, and that's not just my opinion - you lean that way on Media Bias Fact Check, which I checked a few weeks ago when it struck me that you were coming down harder on Harris than Trump - not by a huge amount, but a noticeable difference. You dance around the fact that Trump is one of the most morally polluted human beings who ever ran for the presidency - AND is a convicted felon. Say all you want about 'lawfare', and you're right, I'd like to know too why all these law enforcement offices went after Trump *now*, rather than for the last forty years while he's pulled continuous shit, esp in the state of NY, but what if it's all *true*? What if he's actually guilty, however late in the game the convictions come? What does that say about his voters, that they would vote for some who has the moral compass of a garden slug? But pardon me, I insult garden slugs, who never tried to overturn a fair election.
Look, I didn't vote for either Trump or Harris, but the Trump voters come across as way more stinky than the Harris voters. She was hugely flawed and unfit for office as her competitor was but---she doesn't have the ongoing stain on her soul Trump does. Deal with it, Trumpies.
Still, I do love the FP and I got someone to subscribe to you this summer, so y'all owe me a beer :) No media outlet is perfect but y'all do a way better job than Faux News and MSNBC. But always strive to be better, eh?
Waiting for President-Elect Trump to send his plane to LA to transport any distraught celebrities who cannot abide living in the USA under a Trump presidency to the offshore nirvana of their choosing.
The Free Press is a real attempt at journalism. I hope and believe that you will continue to grow, evolve and mature. Too bad the comments section has to keep you honest. I hope you learn from that onput. There is hope. I never waste any time on msm. X is my best source of information once I vet and eventually follow solid people and institutions.
Thank you so much for being a ray of light peeking out from behind a very dark cloud. I've come to rely on FP reporting, the Honestly podcast, and the growing community of people who can disagree intelligently and see the bigger picture. I do not have that community in person. I am surrounded by well-meaning Progressives full of boundless love and empathy who are now on social media rage-spewing racist, elitest, sexist condemnation of everyone and anyone who doesn't tow the line and comply FFS!--even if you voted for Kamala, as I did. I might as well have voted Trump because their contempt can't discern between an Independent voter who disagrees with you on one or two issues, but still voted Kamala and the Trump loyalist who thinks he's the second coming. The next few years should be interesting and definitely exhausting.
We saw it coming because we are logical people with common sense who saw through the bullshit. We like reading FP because it was the first voice of reason when all this nonsense started during Covid. The country has spoken. Thank God!
So many things learned from this election cycle, but here are a few of the main ones for me:
Publicly released political polls have become political propaganda, created to influence voters, not to inform them. Campaigns run their own private polls which they obviously need to allocate resources and refine their messaging, and these are real, but not released to the public
The elites see elections, voters, now as a nuisance. They stand in the way, are an obstacle to their arrogant belief in their superior ability to decide and choose what is right for the inferior common American.
Trump ran traditional campaigns, both for the primary and general elections. He worked hard. He put in the time, the energy. He did it fairly. The Dems on the other hand…. I think one reason they felt they could pull it off, with Biden, then with Harris, was their lack of respect for the intelligence of American voters, and the total compliance and full support of the news media
What they call “Disinformation” is not the enemy of truth, it is the enemy of them.
I used to be stuck inside a hollow echo chamber.
But then I found myself trapped inside the halls of academia feeling like I was nuts. And then I discovered a little column titled Common Sense. Thank you for providing a way out these last several years.
I am a subscriber to tfp and will happily continue with it because much of your journalism is first class. However, a few things irk me. Bari Weiss is a shameless self promoter who understandably wants to keep promoting “the brand,” but it does occasionally enter puke inducing territory. I don’t need to be constantly reminded of the lofty mission she believes she is on. We’ll see how her principles hold up when a mainstream corporate buyer comes in to capitalize on her mostly great work. Secondly, in my 40+ years in corporate life I’ve seen this movie before: mostly youngish staffers believe they are doing god’s work and changing the world. This syndrome starts infecting judgement and knocks the product down a peg. Thirdly, the blind spot on Israel is so obvious to this Zionist Jew (me) and over the past year has echoes of North Korean media. The coverage of global antisemitism has mostly been excellent and vital, but the dearth of journalistic voices telling a different story on the current middle east wars is such a miss for tfp and I suspect is guided by the “she who must be obeyed” editor. Like I said , I am a very happy free press subscriber but not a blind one.
Although this piece comes off a little too self-congratulatory, I am still thankful to have a lucid place to go in between the legacy media extremes. Keep up the good work. Thanks to my daughter for tuning me in. Cheers!
Super grateful that I started subscribing last year. TFP is fresh air in a fetid room.
“ They saw it because we wrote about the lie that many tried to deny about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity. ”
For a guy unfit to be president, his administration got a lot of big things done through a very antagonistic Congress and foreign leaders appear to trust him. TFP, Republicans and some Democrats take great glee in claiming he is no longer competent to be president, yet no one has shown an action or a position he has taken that is irrational.
The last thing we need are decisions being made by non elected anonymous figures who won’t be held accountable for their shit ideas. That’s what we had with the Biden Admin. This guy was not running the show.
That is an assumption by you and others. If true, this group is much more disciplined than under Trump. No allegations (that I know of) from insiders.
A fair assessment is that Biden has a team behind him that by committee are making policy decisions. Granted they have done some good work but if the country was meant to work that way they would not have hidden his decline from the people.
Hopefully, every president has a good team behind them. /While never mentioned in campaigns, the ability to assemble such a team is a critically important skill set.
Bravo and thank you!
"At The Free Press, we are of no party. We carry water for no politician. Just as Free Press readers weren’t surprised by Trump’s win, you won’t now be cocooned from his flaws. Our commitment remains the same today as it was yesterday: to pursue the truth and to tell it plainly.". Not completely true, mesdames and monsieurs. You're a little biased on the right, and that's not just my opinion - you lean that way on Media Bias Fact Check, which I checked a few weeks ago when it struck me that you were coming down harder on Harris than Trump - not by a huge amount, but a noticeable difference. You dance around the fact that Trump is one of the most morally polluted human beings who ever ran for the presidency - AND is a convicted felon. Say all you want about 'lawfare', and you're right, I'd like to know too why all these law enforcement offices went after Trump *now*, rather than for the last forty years while he's pulled continuous shit, esp in the state of NY, but what if it's all *true*? What if he's actually guilty, however late in the game the convictions come? What does that say about his voters, that they would vote for some who has the moral compass of a garden slug? But pardon me, I insult garden slugs, who never tried to overturn a fair election.
Look, I didn't vote for either Trump or Harris, but the Trump voters come across as way more stinky than the Harris voters. She was hugely flawed and unfit for office as her competitor was but---she doesn't have the ongoing stain on her soul Trump does. Deal with it, Trumpies.
Still, I do love the FP and I got someone to subscribe to you this summer, so y'all owe me a beer :) No media outlet is perfect but y'all do a way better job than Faux News and MSNBC. But always strive to be better, eh?
Waiting for President-Elect Trump to send his plane to LA to transport any distraught celebrities who cannot abide living in the USA under a Trump presidency to the offshore nirvana of their choosing.
Thank you Bari Weiss. Thank you TFP. I will continue to subscribe and will encourage others to do the same.
The Free Press is a real attempt at journalism. I hope and believe that you will continue to grow, evolve and mature. Too bad the comments section has to keep you honest. I hope you learn from that onput. There is hope. I never waste any time on msm. X is my best source of information once I vet and eventually follow solid people and institutions.
Please also commit yourselves to calling out Trump successes. <3
Thank you so much for being a ray of light peeking out from behind a very dark cloud. I've come to rely on FP reporting, the Honestly podcast, and the growing community of people who can disagree intelligently and see the bigger picture. I do not have that community in person. I am surrounded by well-meaning Progressives full of boundless love and empathy who are now on social media rage-spewing racist, elitest, sexist condemnation of everyone and anyone who doesn't tow the line and comply FFS!--even if you voted for Kamala, as I did. I might as well have voted Trump because their contempt can't discern between an Independent voter who disagrees with you on one or two issues, but still voted Kamala and the Trump loyalist who thinks he's the second coming. The next few years should be interesting and definitely exhausting.
We saw it coming because we are logical people with common sense who saw through the bullshit. We like reading FP because it was the first voice of reason when all this nonsense started during Covid. The country has spoken. Thank God!
Bravo. Astute and so very well-composed. Thank you.
Mark Willner
So many things learned from this election cycle, but here are a few of the main ones for me:
Publicly released political polls have become political propaganda, created to influence voters, not to inform them. Campaigns run their own private polls which they obviously need to allocate resources and refine their messaging, and these are real, but not released to the public
The elites see elections, voters, now as a nuisance. They stand in the way, are an obstacle to their arrogant belief in their superior ability to decide and choose what is right for the inferior common American.
Trump ran traditional campaigns, both for the primary and general elections. He worked hard. He put in the time, the energy. He did it fairly. The Dems on the other hand…. I think one reason they felt they could pull it off, with Biden, then with Harris, was their lack of respect for the intelligence of American voters, and the total compliance and full support of the news media
What they call “Disinformation” is not the enemy of truth, it is the enemy of them.
It is hard to overstate my gratitude for the FP. Simply, thank you.