The Powers That Be: Daily - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Excellent podcast! Every episode is well sourced, well produced and interesting. Great mix of the most important stories and issues shaping our national discourse. In addition, it provides unique insights from Puck’s cadre of best-in-industry journalists. It’s the first thing I listen to each morning.

Bill Ackman may be outspoken and often hyperbolic but the issues surrounding Dr. Gay are serious and matter a great deal to the university’s standing and academia reputation.

The conversation made much less of concerns over her tenure, qualifications and performance than it did criticizing Mr. Ackman’s for speaking out about it.

If the Harvard Board is continuing to support Dr. Gay, even in part, because of what a hedge fund manager says, that is clearly not acceptable. It also gives the impression he has more influence than he actually has ‘in real life’.

The Board needs to make it abundantly clear, that for better or for worse, their support is not beholding to high-profile constituents, donors, or DEI criteria. Hopefully, integrity still matters.

Time will tell if Harvard maintains its stature and prominence - a glib analysis doesn’t adequately assess the possibility of real damage.

Peter does an excellent job covering a wide array of topics in a short daily podcast.

My only complaint is the “new” element of adding in a lot of news clips to the podcast that don’t really add anything for the listener

I listen every day to this great podcast. My particular favorites are Feedback Fridays with Alex Bigler! Great opportunity to get a behind the scenes look at what’s happening at Puck.

The guests that are brought on are interesting to listen to- but the stories that are covered tend to be dated by 4-5 days. It’s a podcast, keep up with current events. No one wants to hear a news podcast about stuff that happened last week. Additionally, Peter Hamby has a somewhat shallow understanding of politics on the left. He did a story on Katy Porter’s senate bid and completely neglected the mention how much outrage there has been over Dianne Feinstein’s behavior, obvious cognitive decline, possible signs of dementia, etc. A shallow reading of the story

Media-centric podcast with all the liberal bias you might expect (and I'm not 100% sure they realize how much it comes across). I appreciate most of the smart voices on here, but I really don't like Hamby's "interview" style in which he talks more than his guests and often interrupts to make or finish a point. Sometimes raising his voice to literally shout down the other person until he's done. Hamby really need to check that.

And as insult to injury taking Meta/Facebook ad money to let them hawk their "privacy" and "we really don't like disinformation" PR on your podcast is fairly offensive. Their passive amplification of toxic content to their users is well documented shouldn't be something Puck facilitates. I know that sweet FB money pays for the lights but is there NO ONE ELSE who is willing to place ads against your reporting? Reason why I unsubscribed.