Bari: Some unsolicited advice from someone who became a journalist in the wake of Watergate and who has seen firsthand the demise of journalism since then: Bring a diverse group into the newsroom. By diverse, I don’t just mean people with a different skin tone, but people who are diverse in their thinking and interests. Much of what caused the low state of journalism is that newsrooms began hiring only people just like them, with the same thoughts, interests and backgrounds, which simply makes them a club or an activist group instead of journalists.
So my advice would be to hire people from a wide range of ages (interests and priorities do change with age), different backgrounds (at least one person from a rural area and someone from middle America, which thinks differently than the coastal megalopolises), varying religious affiliations (I think you’ve got the Jewish angle covered) and opposing political beliefs (yes, hire that unicorn journalist who supports Trump, or at least has conservative views – many of your readers, judging from comments, are politically conservative).
With that diversity, I think you’ll attain that old-school approach of reporting that will engender the trust you seek. I have high hopes for your success.
Trust is earned. I for one would like to see an article on why ALL of the cases against Trump are either examples of unequal application of the law, or patently absurd, as is the case with the current trial in New York. Nobody familiar with the law can justify the shredding and defecating on the legal traditions of a thousand years.
I will trust you more when it is not obvious that you all plan to vote for the corrupt corpse, his failings, dishonesty, and patent backing by authoritarians notwithstanding.
Both Tucker Carlson and Sharyll Atkisson--who along with John Stossel are the only journalists I currently trust--are saying they have been told, and have evidence supporting the claim, that nearly all of our Congressional representatives are being controlled like puppets on strings by our intelligence agencies, who are not only operating illegally in this country, but doing so for all intents and purposes openly.
We have large problems, and while I agree we need exceptions in abortion laws, the survival of democracy in our nation--if indeed it still exists--is a bigger issue even than mothers dying of pregnancy complications. God knows the jabs killed a thousand people for every mother endangered in any way by such problems.
We are at a crossroad. One way leads to a positive future, and the other to complete control of every aspect of our lives by the very sorts of people the Democrats used to say they opposed.
This new format should be titled "Blind Spot". How about the green energy fiasco? The selling out of our SPR. Biden's new tax proposals. Our shrinking economy. Who's funding BLM 2.0. Fentanyl deaths. Illegal immigration. Continued pushing of the covid shot. Student loan cancelations. The overall failure of our education system. So much more to be concerned about than Kristi Noem or the absurd press correspondence dinner.
Bari, who took the cheap shot at republicans in the Noem recap? The phrase was something like her actions were better than the leading Republicans who put their dogs on the roof of the car. That statement linked a wikipedia piece about Mitt Romney doing that 30 years ago. You cant say you bring light not heat then throw in cheap shots like that. Leading Republicans? One 30 year old example? My guess is Ollie put that in as he takes cheap shots at conservatives and MAAAaaaaGAs on a regular basis. He is damaging the brand. If I am wrong and you took the cheap shot, I am sure it was onetime lapse
The Free Press is what it is: a refuge for liberal media who knows their bias is a wrong, struggle with it daily, but can’t help themselves when a tidbit pops up that gives them the chance to take a shot at republicans/MAGA/conservatives. These writers are like AA meeting attendees who profess the evils of alcohol but relapse when a drink is put in front of them.
Take the abortion story to start off this newsletter. Nobody likes to hear about a baby with abnormal and likely fatal development issues. Nobody likes to hear about a mother whose life could be in danger. All valid points, yet brought up in a way to suggest resistance to abortion is evil. Yet, is there ever a story about the young children orphaned because their mother died of a drug overdose with drugs brought through our open border?
I personally don’t mind reading TFP’ work, but always know in the back of my mind they are really lean just a little less left, as they say. I want multiple points of view. The Free Press is just one view. I wouldn’t call it trust, as Bari alludes to, but rather a knowledge that I’m getting a watered down but still known point of view. I just hope she doesn’t think that by being making jokes, she is slipping her bias past us readers. It’s still there, just more subtle.
Looks like another big hit for the Free Press. The combination of incisive reporting with tongue-in-cheek style ("tentifada" made my day) is irresistible. Looking forward to more. BTW, the report on the Air Force contract award for development of an unmanned fighter jet is long overdue. The money spent on developing advanced manned aircraft to stay one step ahead of our adversaries has flown (forgive me) in the face of IT/UAV technology that has flooded the skies with advanced weapons that do not require the additional size, weight, cost, and operational limits imposed on the design by the addition of a human pilot. Right now, we have the capability to flood the skies with swarms of small armed drones that can defeat the latest manned fighters. and if we can do it, you can bet that the PRC can as well.
Whoever wrote the blurb on Kristi Noem would do well to read the linked account in The Guardian. Unlike Commander and Major, Biden’s biting pooches, Cricket attacked only Noem herself — after massacring a flock of chickens. Kinda like that cuddly neighborhood pitty that rips the face off a toddler, Cricket was a killer that had to be put down.
Speaking of our Dog Whisper in Chief, it’s chilling that he leaves our troops and untold numbers of Afghanis exposed and turns his back on our closest ally in the Middle East with the same cruel, calculating heartlessness ascribed to Noem. Yet the leftist media types applaud his “decency.” I’m really disappointed in TheFP for not digging deeper. Anything for a chuckle.
Bari - this would have been a very good idea. If you hadn't put Wiseman in charge. More of the same snarky, left leaning, content-light silliness won't enhance the Free Press. And no, Greene never talked about Jewish space lasers. She may be a little nutty but putting words in her mouth isn't journalism. It's mindless prattle. Journalism would be stating that Ilan Omar credibly committed immigration fraud and should be sitting back in Somalia; not sullying our Congress. Put me down as part of the 51 percent that wants immediate mass deportations the minute Biden is sent scurrying away in his Depends.
I've been hoping for a roundup like this for some time (I even sent you a note about it). But... I would really like more hard content and a little less snark. Leave that for Nellie on Friday.
re: “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.” Careful there, Wyatt Earp. We shoot back. Ask our dogs.
re: "I'm a grown man running against a six-year old." Uh, no, Joe Stolen. You're a lifelong grifter, who now in his second childhood wanders about and soils himself, running against the most successful - if irritating - president in anyone's recollection.
re: Jewish space lasers. Sounds hilarious, doesn't it? I don't know lasers' ethnicity, but the KNOWN technology is there to set fires from space using laser energy. Why would anyone do that? Don't know. But then our gub'ment told us that the Clot Shots were safe, ivermectin dangerous, and masks worked. Oh, and that surveillance of Candidate Trump by the Deep State was a conspiracy theory. I won't dismiss anything until I see proof with my own eyes.
re: ADHD. Don't be so flippant. I was the most adamant pooh-pooh-er of that diagnosis until I finally had to come out of denial and admit that one of my children was severely affected. Thirty years later I still don't know whence it came, but it has devastated my son, the only real love of my life.
re: Weinstein. The feminists and Me-Too-ers are going to have to make up their minds: are adult women boss-babes with "agency," people who control their own bodies and are perfectly within their rights to rent them out at considerable profit, including parts in feature films for a little slap-and-tickle, or are they vulnerable little girls who are being taken advantage-of by those Mean Old Men and have to be shepherded through life because they can't take care of themselves? Or maybe what they really want is to have it both ways.
edit: one last thing. The ReBiblicans are going to lose their asses over this abortion thing, and there is a Very Good Reason: they should. Put your emotions aside; put your religion aside; put aside your hatred of feminism, and sit down on the same side of the table with people who disagree with you and work out a solution. And that goes double for the "My body, my choice" people on the other side. You are NOT doing what the people want. Americans are a practical people and are embarrassed by the both of you.
Bari: Some unsolicited advice from someone who became a journalist in the wake of Watergate and who has seen firsthand the demise of journalism since then: Bring a diverse group into the newsroom. By diverse, I don’t just mean people with a different skin tone, but people who are diverse in their thinking and interests. Much of what caused the low state of journalism is that newsrooms began hiring only people just like them, with the same thoughts, interests and backgrounds, which simply makes them a club or an activist group instead of journalists.
So my advice would be to hire people from a wide range of ages (interests and priorities do change with age), different backgrounds (at least one person from a rural area and someone from middle America, which thinks differently than the coastal megalopolises), varying religious affiliations (I think you’ve got the Jewish angle covered) and opposing political beliefs (yes, hire that unicorn journalist who supports Trump, or at least has conservative views – many of your readers, judging from comments, are politically conservative).
With that diversity, I think you’ll attain that old-school approach of reporting that will engender the trust you seek. I have high hopes for your success.
Trust is earned. I for one would like to see an article on why ALL of the cases against Trump are either examples of unequal application of the law, or patently absurd, as is the case with the current trial in New York. Nobody familiar with the law can justify the shredding and defecating on the legal traditions of a thousand years.
I will trust you more when it is not obvious that you all plan to vote for the corrupt corpse, his failings, dishonesty, and patent backing by authoritarians notwithstanding.
Both Tucker Carlson and Sharyll Atkisson--who along with John Stossel are the only journalists I currently trust--are saying they have been told, and have evidence supporting the claim, that nearly all of our Congressional representatives are being controlled like puppets on strings by our intelligence agencies, who are not only operating illegally in this country, but doing so for all intents and purposes openly.
We have large problems, and while I agree we need exceptions in abortion laws, the survival of democracy in our nation--if indeed it still exists--is a bigger issue even than mothers dying of pregnancy complications. God knows the jabs killed a thousand people for every mother endangered in any way by such problems.
We are at a crossroad. One way leads to a positive future, and the other to complete control of every aspect of our lives by the very sorts of people the Democrats used to say they opposed.
This new format should be titled "Blind Spot". How about the green energy fiasco? The selling out of our SPR. Biden's new tax proposals. Our shrinking economy. Who's funding BLM 2.0. Fentanyl deaths. Illegal immigration. Continued pushing of the covid shot. Student loan cancelations. The overall failure of our education system. So much more to be concerned about than Kristi Noem or the absurd press correspondence dinner.
Ag school graduate here, Bari. You know what happens on farms? Animals are killed. Yeah, really.
The Kristi Noem thing is beneath you. I used to think.
Bari, who took the cheap shot at republicans in the Noem recap? The phrase was something like her actions were better than the leading Republicans who put their dogs on the roof of the car. That statement linked a wikipedia piece about Mitt Romney doing that 30 years ago. You cant say you bring light not heat then throw in cheap shots like that. Leading Republicans? One 30 year old example? My guess is Ollie put that in as he takes cheap shots at conservatives and MAAAaaaaGAs on a regular basis. He is damaging the brand. If I am wrong and you took the cheap shot, I am sure it was onetime lapse
Not sure I understand why there is more outrage over killing a dog than over killing a baby. Both are awful but seriously one is worse
The Free Press is what it is: a refuge for liberal media who knows their bias is a wrong, struggle with it daily, but can’t help themselves when a tidbit pops up that gives them the chance to take a shot at republicans/MAGA/conservatives. These writers are like AA meeting attendees who profess the evils of alcohol but relapse when a drink is put in front of them.
Take the abortion story to start off this newsletter. Nobody likes to hear about a baby with abnormal and likely fatal development issues. Nobody likes to hear about a mother whose life could be in danger. All valid points, yet brought up in a way to suggest resistance to abortion is evil. Yet, is there ever a story about the young children orphaned because their mother died of a drug overdose with drugs brought through our open border?
I personally don’t mind reading TFP’ work, but always know in the back of my mind they are really lean just a little less left, as they say. I want multiple points of view. The Free Press is just one view. I wouldn’t call it trust, as Bari alludes to, but rather a knowledge that I’m getting a watered down but still known point of view. I just hope she doesn’t think that by being making jokes, she is slipping her bias past us readers. It’s still there, just more subtle.
Looks like another big hit for the Free Press. The combination of incisive reporting with tongue-in-cheek style ("tentifada" made my day) is irresistible. Looking forward to more. BTW, the report on the Air Force contract award for development of an unmanned fighter jet is long overdue. The money spent on developing advanced manned aircraft to stay one step ahead of our adversaries has flown (forgive me) in the face of IT/UAV technology that has flooded the skies with advanced weapons that do not require the additional size, weight, cost, and operational limits imposed on the design by the addition of a human pilot. Right now, we have the capability to flood the skies with swarms of small armed drones that can defeat the latest manned fighters. and if we can do it, you can bet that the PRC can as well.
Whoever wrote the blurb on Kristi Noem would do well to read the linked account in The Guardian. Unlike Commander and Major, Biden’s biting pooches, Cricket attacked only Noem herself — after massacring a flock of chickens. Kinda like that cuddly neighborhood pitty that rips the face off a toddler, Cricket was a killer that had to be put down.
Speaking of our Dog Whisper in Chief, it’s chilling that he leaves our troops and untold numbers of Afghanis exposed and turns his back on our closest ally in the Middle East with the same cruel, calculating heartlessness ascribed to Noem. Yet the leftist media types applaud his “decency.” I’m really disappointed in TheFP for not digging deeper. Anything for a chuckle.
Bari - this would have been a very good idea. If you hadn't put Wiseman in charge. More of the same snarky, left leaning, content-light silliness won't enhance the Free Press. And no, Greene never talked about Jewish space lasers. She may be a little nutty but putting words in her mouth isn't journalism. It's mindless prattle. Journalism would be stating that Ilan Omar credibly committed immigration fraud and should be sitting back in Somalia; not sullying our Congress. Put me down as part of the 51 percent that wants immediate mass deportations the minute Biden is sent scurrying away in his Depends.
“victims of sexual violence at the hands of Hamas fighters”. You continue to misspell terrorists. WTF?
I've been hoping for a roundup like this for some time (I even sent you a note about it). But... I would really like more hard content and a little less snark. Leave that for Nellie on Friday.
Taylor Greene is a wing nut but AOC and Omar are ‘leaders’? Come on Freee Press.
Anyone notice how all of those green, cookie-cutter tents at these Hamas protests are the same? Who bought in bulk and distributed? LOL
re: “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.” Careful there, Wyatt Earp. We shoot back. Ask our dogs.
re: "I'm a grown man running against a six-year old." Uh, no, Joe Stolen. You're a lifelong grifter, who now in his second childhood wanders about and soils himself, running against the most successful - if irritating - president in anyone's recollection.
re: Jewish space lasers. Sounds hilarious, doesn't it? I don't know lasers' ethnicity, but the KNOWN technology is there to set fires from space using laser energy. Why would anyone do that? Don't know. But then our gub'ment told us that the Clot Shots were safe, ivermectin dangerous, and masks worked. Oh, and that surveillance of Candidate Trump by the Deep State was a conspiracy theory. I won't dismiss anything until I see proof with my own eyes.
re: ADHD. Don't be so flippant. I was the most adamant pooh-pooh-er of that diagnosis until I finally had to come out of denial and admit that one of my children was severely affected. Thirty years later I still don't know whence it came, but it has devastated my son, the only real love of my life.
re: Weinstein. The feminists and Me-Too-ers are going to have to make up their minds: are adult women boss-babes with "agency," people who control their own bodies and are perfectly within their rights to rent them out at considerable profit, including parts in feature films for a little slap-and-tickle, or are they vulnerable little girls who are being taken advantage-of by those Mean Old Men and have to be shepherded through life because they can't take care of themselves? Or maybe what they really want is to have it both ways.
edit: one last thing. The ReBiblicans are going to lose their asses over this abortion thing, and there is a Very Good Reason: they should. Put your emotions aside; put your religion aside; put aside your hatred of feminism, and sit down on the same side of the table with people who disagree with you and work out a solution. And that goes double for the "My body, my choice" people on the other side. You are NOT doing what the people want. Americans are a practical people and are embarrassed by the both of you.
Ah, yes, the Free Press - republicans murder pets and farm animals but Democrats are at risk of being murdered by the fetuses!
Wiseman - stick to the Royal Family in the British tabloids.