Honestly with Bari Weiss - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I’m a female millennial who is very conscious of the media I consume. Because our culture is so divided, I try not to listen to commentators who are far right or far left and Bari’s podcast is the perfect middle ground for me. She is wildly intelligent, interviews the most fascinating guests, tackles topics people care about, and prioritizes truth. I adore listening to this podcast and feel enlightened and enriched after every listen, not drained and depressed like most political podcasts leave me. Her episode with Jerry Seinfeld had me smiling the entire time. Cannot recommend this podcast enough. Honestly, it’s the best ☺️.

Don’t have a lot of time for podcasts lately but found the time to listen to the podcast discussing the recent supreme court decisions on affirmative action and free speech/gay rights. It is a pleasure to listen to three true experts that have different perspectives that can also be civil and respectful. It was a great podcast and I highly recommend it to anyone that wants clear, rational thought instead of click bait.

I pay for exactly one subscription in my life, this one. And, honestly, (see what I did there?) I would pay double what they charge. It’s that valuable to me to have common sense analysis and hear from diverse perspectives on complicated issues. This is sorely lacking in so many places these days—but The Free Press has the secret sauce. I don’t always agree, and that’s the value. (Except for Fridays. Those TGIFs are hilarious!)

Engrossing, on point, timely, refreshing, non-biased. The only Podcast I religiously listen to….at the gym, on long walks, and while cooking. Keep up the tremendous work Bari and company. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

This podcast seems to aspire to be the hard hitting, straight talk version of journalism that the mainstream media fails to be (from the perspective of this podcast). Unfortunately it falls well short of that goal as the hosts and guests frequently enter into bouts of patting each other on the back in a circle jerk of unfounded conjecture, assumptions with no basis in fact and a political cynicism that either ignores or is utterly ignorant of how political processes and structures actually function. The hosts frequently find themselves careening of the conspiracy theory cliff when simply applying Occam’s Razor and some rudimentary fact checking will debunk many of their assertions which they make with utter certainty while proclaiming to be “gaslit” by the establishment that they want so badly to be their antagonists. I wanted to like this podcast and while I find myself agreeing with some of their conclusions, I find their style tacky and tabloid, like a Hollywood gossip column about politics. “The Free Press” should hold themselves to a higher standard if they want to be taken seriously as journalists and not just some verbal version of political paparazzi.

I originally discovered Bari Weiss when I listened to The Witch Trials of JK Rowling podcast. I loved and respected how Bari presented different perspectives and allowed her listeners to draw their own conclusions after hearing all sides. I felt that she really lived up to the “Free Press” name, so I followed Honestly by Bari Weiss because I thought I would hear more stories with multifaceted reporting. While originally this podcast did deliver, recently the reporting has been blatantly biased, from the language used to describe topics to the questions Bari asks in her interviews. I happen to agree with many of Bari’s views- that’s not the problem. The problem is that her reporting can no longer be considered unbiased, as her views are very clearly intertwined with the content. I was hoping to have a source of information that did not confirm my views. I’m disappointed, and I share this in the hopes that Bari will listen to feedback and perhaps shift gears and get back to what brought people like me to her podcast. I shared this comment on one of her Instagram posts and it was unfortunately deleted.