Marketplace Morning Report

I’ve been contrasting the reporting from Fox to Marketplace for the last month. Fox consistently underreports federal perturbations. As someone that’s worked in the government and is in tech, whose personal network encompasses civil workers, the deep concern by domain experts across all domains is legitimately unprecedented yet garners little interest by conservative outlets. Marketplace has a specific interest in topics related to the economy. That is still the case. Reading through the negative reviews on Marketplace’s suite of podcasts, there’s a common thread: frustrations with political bias. It seems some listeners are jumping ship based on a belief that Marketplace is pushing a liberal agenda. This confuses me. The Trump administration has clearly expressed they are adopting an isolationist agenda while building relationships with nations we’ve been in contention with for many decades—at the cost of otherwise longstanding relationships with e.g. Europe, Canada, Mexico. This has consequences on our economy, which is now expressing increased volatility. How is discussing the consequences a liberal agenda? Meanwhile, Fox has *barely* begun discussing fed layoffs. Very frustrating when that’s a source of information I use as a common ground with family and friends. What I’d like to see more of from Marketplace: deeper research on analogous events and their outcomes / causality. Interviews with economists, sociologists, and historians to build reasonably priors. Longer-form content.

Even if the news is not so good the creative music gets me dancing!! Love it.

Not good at keeping up with the news. They seem to pick and chose to report on the news that makes the Trump admin look bad and when the President got it right and has got the response necessary from the tariffs that have now been halted, this new site chooses not to report on that that it’s a good time to find a job. How pathetic, it’s time to stay up with the times and all the good things are actually happening in the United States under the Trump presidency. I guess I’ll have to get my new somewhere else.

I'm tired of hearing the same commercial, multiple times, on the same episode. They also do not do basic editing so you get the same story replayed on multiple episodes almost everyday. Hint: podcasts are not radio you dont have to miss broadcasts if it is not on when it comes out!