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How dare you sane wash Trump in this period of our democracy clearly being in crisis and yet you act like this is totally fine, I am ashamed of your organization.

Immature delivery and Terrible joking hides any serious and definitive stance. Like a mockery

I can’t help but admire his business-sense, but like most big business, there’s also that corrupt-sense. And a while ago, recently, I had not realized that all this time, WE were actually ‘the cartel’. - s.jxn - ga 🤔🥸

This reporter only parroted the perspective of the prof who acknowledges an anti-Israel view, and the facts have been slanted. I or others should not trust such an unbalanced reporter, so will take this off my podcast subscriptions.

Shame on you for bowing down to Trump’s agenda and not investigating the real news. You’ve sold-out yourself and the American people. How do you sleep at night?

I want to like this podcast I really do but like many others the vocal fry drives me BSC. I don’t think I can continue to listen to it. I recommend voice coaching lessons.

I was disappointed to find that on the day protections for underserved communities were rolled back on a massive scale Post Reports chose to focus attention on the comings and goings of wealthy privileged individuals. I just don’t see how this could be considered relevant news.

This commentary from Dan Balz regarding the inauguration sets an even lower bar for sanewashing Trump. Yep, totally normal for an American president in 2025 to talk openly about renaming the Gulf of Mexico and seizing the Panama Canal. Thank you for making a formerly great newspaper’s descent into corporate stenography so clear. Now I can unsubscribe without any hesitation.

When picking your guest hosts, please, for the love of whatever deity (or not) you believe in, screen out those with vocal fry. It's so annoying to listen to. Or there are ways to improve vocal delivery and get rid of vocal fry, and I strongly suggest you send Rachel to a coach to get rid of it if you plan to have her continue as a guest host because I for one don't plan to continue listening if vocal fry is on the menu. Nothing against Rachael personally or anyone else with vocal fry, it's just like nails on a chalkboard to listen to. And there are other places I could get my news.

Generally, I love y’all. I have some similar qualms as other reviewers, but I been with you since the beginning, listening to every episode and intend to continue. But one thing consistently tears me up: those great Deep Reads stories and most of the time they’re voiced by these readers from Noah. If they’re not AI, they sure sound like it. If they are, it shows. Takes me a good 10 minutes to sink past the voice and into the story. It is always, always, always better when the writer reads their own story.

Post teoría is great. Keep up the good work. I’m specifically writing to comment on the narrated stories. I really appreciate these stories. The only problem- the narration makes the stories feel less authentic, less connecting. I world much rather have the story read by the authors- their intros never have me desiring that someone else read their story. Their voice feels right. They understand their material. The narration of the story about the driver for prisoners feels to be the wrong tone for the subject matter. I appreciate the effort being made to create an experience with the narration, but i would prefer to hear the authors’ voices. That really connects me to them and their story.

The segment I tried to listen to was about the recent food recalls in the US. I had to stop the pod due to the awful “valley girl” delivery of the commentary. The guest (Rachel?) was especially annoying. It was like an SNL skit with accentuated valley girl-like accents & drawn out endings of words & sentences

Love post reports but for some reason on this topic they decided to ignore the data from the rest of the world banning these meds for minors because they cause more harm than good in all longitudinal studies that have been published. I know this is a majority left leaning pod but at least keep the relevant facts in there.

The discussion on the solar rooftop show provided an understated discussion regarding implications of these large solar panel fields being planned and constructed over large swaths of land. The possibility solar fields ‘could’ interact with endangered species was mentioned. That’s incomplete because it’s not a possibility, it’s an actuality. Equally as important, there are acres upon acres of fragile desert soils being disturbed with the installation of fields of solar panels. Not only will this affect the ability of the desert surfaces to maintain vegetation moving forward through time, but this disturbance is likely to cause huge amount of mobilized dust, which has a whole host of other implications as well, health affects included. How about the inequity of generating health hazards for rural communities? Not to mention the value of empty land for variety of reasons: scientific, preservation, recreation, enjoyment by the public, etc. Furthermore, the discussion of funding solar on rooftops may be correct for wherever you did your researching, but is incorrect for other locations. At least in some parts of the country solar panels are being installed on roofs with zero down, the monthly payment is less than the electricity bill, and that is not only for high income households. And the policy is such that owners don’t receive credits or payment for generating more than they use. Also, I am guessing there are a lot of solutions to address the issue of equity other than simply not putting solar on the rooftops. Why is the emphasis not on the need to harness the energy that could be generated from rooftops, storing, and distributing it efficiently. Imagine the power there, on land already disturbed!

…and kept my Washington Post subscription. And I’m glad I did. Your journalism is close to being nonpareil. But how can you do an entire debrief on the outcome of the 2024 general election without once mentioning voter suppression? The principal project of conservative megadonors over the last 50 years has been severely restricting access to voting. A project conceived in the ‘70s and enacted beginning in the ‘80s is bearing strange fruit today. Conservative megadonors getting Trump into office a second time — largely by attacking voting, restricting voting, preventing voting, and tossing out an unprecedented number of ballots even after they were cast — is openly a win for the old Confederacy. Are you so genteel that, to uphold the old myth of U.S. exceptionalism, “the beacon of democracy and free elections,” you will ignore the truth in the data staring us all right in the face?? The right to vote itself has been under attack across the U.S. since the 1980s. Getting the truth out to the public will require an act of selfless journalism … and I hope you will commit it!

During the election season, I’ve tuned in to this show regularly. I appreciate their thorough analysis and the array of journalists they bring in to speak to the subjects. The format has introduced me to a lot of strong voices at the Post. An episode I loved in particular was Elahe’s conversation about the excitement around Caitlin Clark. As someone who can just barely differentiate a basket ball from a baseball, I found the host and her guests’ humor and excitement contagious. Plus there was a welcome sense of joy and levity to the episode. The team is working hard at their jobs and it shows, in spite of all the chaos swirling around them.

Unfollowing this great show due to Bezos actions on endorsements

It’s awesome seeing this hack news organization eat itself because they won’t support the dumpster fire of a candidate they put forward. Keep murdering your offspring and calling yourself a victim behind sad music…see how far that gets you. No wonder you’re losing credibility and subscribers.

Disgusted.

Dead Post Reports, PLEASE do a timely podcast on the Washington Post’s extremely controversial and damaging decision not to publish a endorsement for president. The whole debacle is now important national news, it is a newsworthy event that has profound implications not just for the future of the Post, but for the state of U.S. journalism in the shadow of a possible second Trump presidency. It deserves your independent scrutiny and rigorous reporting. Everyone I know is canceling their subscriptions and is so deeply disappointed and it is important to demonstrate that the staff of the Post can report on the newspaper itself. Thank you. James

Do the right thing. The world is watching you.

Treating trump’s plans of ethnic cleansing as if they’re HOUSING POLICY? Done. Bye. Hope the WaPo folds because it’s not a legitimate journalistic outlet anymore. The darkness democracy dies in has arrived.

After Bezo spiked the Harris endorsement, I no longer believe in the Post’s integrity or credibility. We’re watching the last great national newspaper die. I’m done.

Been listening to P-Rpts a while and was beginning to enjoy it, figured I'd subscribe to The Post til I learned Bezos crushed the Post Kamala endorsement so he doesn't anger Trump of Putins Asset wins so - see ya. Not supporting the spineless in the face of end of democracy so Bezos can not draw Trumps ire. What a coward

Cancelling my subscription, I’ll miss you.

The Washington Post apparently believes both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are equally qualified to be President and thus doesn’t make an endorsement in a critical election. I have listened to my final episode of this program.

Apart from the bothsiderist “analysis” and sanewashing Marianne Levine needs to take voice lessons because she is unlistenable.

Please tell Marianne LeVine that if she wants to be taken seriously, please stop using her junior high voice. I appreciate the reporting but can’t tolerate the way she speaks.

Maryann Please stop annoying Vally girl affectation. Unprofessional

I just finished listening to an episode on how the Harris and Trump would affect your healthcare. It was written at a level below what fifth graders would be able to understand. The episode rolled the whole topic of abortion into “healthcare” like it was just another aspect of healthcare that people debate about and not a subject that has been politically manipulated for decades. Nothing to see here people move along. The fake Q&A between the host and the reporter is so lacking in insight. Softball questions that shed no light. Unsubscribe!

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Ava Wallace presents WNNA players as victims of Caitlin Clark fans. However, Wallace deliberately neglects to mention the flagrant fouling against Clark that in general hasn’t been called (Britney Griner hits Clark in the face, no call; Dijonai Carrington pokes Clark in eye with 2 inch nails). This is what upsets Clark fans and with good reason. Wallace could have at least mentioned it as a controversy. I expect the Post to be balanced. While Wallace delivers her words with presence, she skewed the story. People watch Clark because she is next level good; something the WNBA hasn’t seen before.

Elahe and Martine seem incapable of telling any story about Israel without simultaneously praising Hamas or Hezbollah, calling them “militant groups”. Hey ladies: the word is TERRORIST. Your blind bias is obvious and disgusting. I canceled my subscription to this podcast and the Post in general after their crystal-clear hatred of all things Israeli and/or Jewish came tumbling out in this last year. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I find it hilarious that your show buys commercial space on conservative and libertarian podcasts. I used to think the WaPo was respectable and fair, albeit a tad left leaning. I grew up the daughter of a dedicated set of democrats, my dad the president of his local OCAW union. I cannot believe how far your newspaper has fallen into hiding truths, downplaying important stories, and promoting communistic rhetoric. The two stars for this podcast is because I hope at least your print media is more centrist, but based on what I’ve heard so far, I’m not encouraged. Such a shame.

I used to be a big Washington Post fan, but good Lord over the last year and a half or so has just been a bunch of hot ideological garbage. A perfect example is today’s episode on Wednesday, September 25 discussing the possible emerging war between Hasbulla and Israel. The conversation starts off with a Washington Post “reporter“ interviewing a lady from Lebanon, the Lebanese lady was asked by the reporter if she was impacted By Israel’s bombs (which is a loaded in itself…), and the reporter was shown the ladies phone who scrolled to her social media accounts showing “people who had died from bombs“. News like this is embarrassing. I’m embarrassed that the Washington Post publishes contents like this. I used to be a big fan, but you have to report the story, not report your heart. this is a horrible example of news coverage and should strictly be labeled as a personal piece. This piece is a microcosm of similar content broadly covering the war between Israel and Hamas. But even outside of this war, the Post has started to model most of the stories in a very opinionated way, just like this. Again, most of the content being provided here are opinion pieces, not news pieces. The Post should really reconsider retiling their podcast.

The show hosts kept referring to Cheerios as some sort of unhealthy food. This is clearly proof that the current labeling isn’t working because if you look at the label for Cheerios you see it is high in fiber, has a decent amount of protein and is low in sugar and fat. What’s not to like about that?

I was looking for a podcast where I can get my fair and balanced news. This podcast you can tell after a few episodes that is way too left leaning. Good luck in sustaining this mess.

There are a few good reports but the second they get onto anything political it’s turns into propaganda ProleFeed slop…. The lastest report focusing on Haitians and the rumors of cat eating totally ignores the real issue of what happens when you import 1/3 of a town’s population from a third world failed state over less then a year

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I listen to Post Reports almost every morning on my commute (when I'm not listening to my book club book on audible (but I catch up on episodes in between meetings)). Elahe and Martine are such great company on the drive; I appreciate their insightful questions and thoughtful discussion with guests, and I know I can rely on them to keep me up to date on the biggest news of the day. They've upped my water-cooler-chat game immeasurably.

You are a great podcast host!

I don’t mind the politics. I don’t mind the takes. But lately the topics have been DRY. Drink a cup of coffee at least before you go and spew 1800’s history on an episode of a doomed election in a gerrymandered district. (Speaking of which, ran dry on episode ideas that day?)

The Ukraine war analysis was rudimentary and lacked certainty on why Ukraine is fighting for their life and their freedoms. It’s as if it’s the first time you read about it. You need to bring on board a more seasoned war commentator explaining why wars become necessary if you have been attacked.

Really ? Are you serious ? Spare me your critic on this Inventing cynicism

I like this podcast for election coverage but please stay out of culture war issues. For instance, the recent episode on trans athletes was ridiculous. Men have 40% larger lung capacity than women. They also have longer limbs and therefore longer strides. All this and more are what make men so much faster at running than women. Hence, why there has always been a gender divide in sports. Now that people are switching genders all the time, it’s obvious that sports should not be separated by gender, but rather by biological sex. Trans men have no chance to win against cis men and cis women have no chance to win against trans women. Biological males are going to destroy females in sports 99% of the time. Allowing trans women to compete in female sports is deeply unfair to cis women and physically endangers their safety. To promote such nonsense is actually sexist and discriminatory against a real marginalized group— women. Do better.

Martine, I am a 64 year old, progressive, crazy liberal lol white woman. This episode hit me very hard. I just want to comment - on you. How you hear this story and so many like them, as a young black woman, with such professionalism and grace just astounds me. I am in awe. And as a white woman, I just really need to say I am just so so sorry. My husband and I are devastated and ashamed by what our “ ancestors “ have done. I am just so sorry, and so impressed by you. I hope this isn’t inappropriate. I don’t pretend to understand what you go through. I’m just so horrified. It’s what is in my heart, as I finish listening to this story. You are an amazing young woman.

Not worth the breath used to make this

I just listened to the 8/16 episode. Was everyone drunk? I’ll stick to podcasts from The Times from now on. Garbage.

i used to listen a lot, but lately i’ve been disappointed. this show wants to be a serious newsy show but struggles dearly for any nuance or balance, particularly when covering culture issues (surprise surprise, they can be touchy!) i’m not sure if this was always the case & i missed it because i tend to agree with their bias, or if it’s become more pronounced? Often the hosts have clearly picked a good side and a bad side to frame the hot-button issue being covered & they tend to REALLY straw man the arguments for the side they apparently feel are the bad guys. (a recent episode on transwomens’ participation in pro/collegiate sport is a case in point) This is fine if you don’t want your priors challenged, but for listeners that genuinely want to learn & engage with the issue it would be helpful to present both sides’ BEST arguments & let us make up our own minds. most issues really are more complex than post reports would have you believe.