Every morning, I start my day reading The Free Press, The Times of Israel and news about the Chicago Cubs on my phone.
The Cubs news, mostly rumors, is self-explanatory. But why the other two, which are absorbing in their own way.
The Free Press is an internet publication started by Bari Weiss just three years ago and has now grown to almost 1 million paid subscribers.
Bari Weiss is a 40-year-old woman who worked for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times for four years each. She calls herself a “left-wing centrist” and a committed Zionist. She was married to a man for three years, then divorced, and remarried a woman, Nellie Bowles. They have a child born in 2022. Bowles is also a contributor to The Free Press.
Bari Weiss does some pieces herself and occasionally has podcasts. Bowles pens a biting satirical column on Friday, dissecting the week’s news.
I read The Wall Street Journal everyday and the Chicago Tribune sports page. I gave up on the New York Times many years ago because I found its left wing bias appalling and I am not a crossword puzzle person.
The Free Press is challenging in many ways every day. I don’t agree with everything they write by any means, but I learn something from it each day. As a still aspiring journalist, I find it a brilliant rarity worth my time.
The Times of Israel is an internet publication written in English but based in Israel. It gives me an inside story of the events of each day in the ongoing war. It is not religious, and it stays away from sides concerning the fighting. It publishes photos of each soldier killed, and often runs pictures of the hostages. It is a daily play-by-play of what’s happening in Israel with an eye toward its primarily American audience.
I find it difficult to find anything worth watching on TV, but I keep searching for a series Risa and I can watch without waking up with nightmares.
The exception is sports. Pro football devours a couple hours per week and the Cubs claim my attention when they are halfway decent. Shota Imanga, nicknamed “the Throwing Philosopher,” is a Cubs pitcher from Japan who went 15-3 his rookie year last season and is always a want-to-see.
These are the things that shape my view of the world, besides my family and machine trading. I would love to hear about yours.
Question: What do you like to read regularly? Why?
