Guys (whoever at FP reads this stuff!) I am a supporter and a huge admirer of all the work you’ve done and continue to do. I’m really hesitant to criticise because you’re getting so much right - and in any case, who the hell am I? - but I really feel like I need to say this, for what it’s worth.
Guys (whoever at FP reads this stuff!) I am a supporter and a huge admirer of all the work you’ve done and continue to do. I’m really hesitant to criticise because you’re getting so much right - and in any case, who the hell am I? - but I really feel like I need to say this, for what it’s worth.
I love Batya’s writing, I find her takes generally insightful and challenging and well reasoned, but in the context of these discussions I find her absolutely insufferable. On every issue it’s the same points made over and over, with the same tedious, combative, whiny insistence and needless intensity. For the last two episodes I’ve been able to call her responses almost note-perfectly before she made them, and found myself unable to even listen to this latest as I knew I’d find it too frustrating.
The thing I always found refreshing about the FP was the absence of writers so ideological that they reliably fit the world with which they are presented into a narrative to which they have already committed, as is the case with so many in the legacy media. With these discussions that has no longer been the case.
Please please please change up the panel. In the current format you aren’t getting the most out of the topics, the guests, or the questions.
I agree. I really appreciat the sober but different analyses of Brianna and Christopher-- both seem interested in understanding the truth, rather than acting as a booster for a political project. Batya seemed to be having a different conversation. If we want a showdown between partisans, why not pair Batya with a progressive partisan for a crossfire-style podcast? Not my cup of tea, but it seems that some people are interested.
Guys (whoever at FP reads this stuff!) I am a supporter and a huge admirer of all the work you’ve done and continue to do. I’m really hesitant to criticise because you’re getting so much right - and in any case, who the hell am I? - but I really feel like I need to say this, for what it’s worth.
I love Batya’s writing, I find her takes generally insightful and challenging and well reasoned, but in the context of these discussions I find her absolutely insufferable. On every issue it’s the same points made over and over, with the same tedious, combative, whiny insistence and needless intensity. For the last two episodes I’ve been able to call her responses almost note-perfectly before she made them, and found myself unable to even listen to this latest as I knew I’d find it too frustrating.
The thing I always found refreshing about the FP was the absence of writers so ideological that they reliably fit the world with which they are presented into a narrative to which they have already committed, as is the case with so many in the legacy media. With these discussions that has no longer been the case.
Please please please change up the panel. In the current format you aren’t getting the most out of the topics, the guests, or the questions.
Sorry to be a dick.
Very well put. I agree with every point you made.
I agree. I really appreciat the sober but different analyses of Brianna and Christopher-- both seem interested in understanding the truth, rather than acting as a booster for a political project. Batya seemed to be having a different conversation. If we want a showdown between partisans, why not pair Batya with a progressive partisan for a crossfire-style podcast? Not my cup of tea, but it seems that some people are interested.