FULL EPISODE - The Friday Edition: Yes, things are pretty bad right now.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The fundamental promise of this news publication is viewpoint diversity.
I built Tangle because I wanted a place where conservatives, liberals, and everyone in between could gather under one roof and trust the news they were reading. In an era when media trust is at an all-time low, polarization is increasingly extreme and so few people seem capable of talking to each other across the partisan divide, this North Star has always served us well.
In order to serve this mission, to earn the trust of the biggest Trump supporters and the most progressive leftists and all the people who land somewhere between them, we offer some simple promises: chief among them is viewpoint diversity in our content. Most days, this is “What the left is saying” and “What the right is saying,” though sometimes we’ll offer pieces that counter each other (for instance, a Tangle staff member is working on a piece responding to what I’m writing here today). We also lean into transparency in how we work by featuring corrections prominently and sharing (and explaining) our editorial policies. Finally, we try to show that we’re fallible humans who can make mistakes, learn and change their minds, rather than pretend we comprise a flawless high-minded institution (we regularly feature reader criticisms, and I encourage anyone who disagrees with today’s piece to write in or comment so we can consider your thoughts).
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we |
| 0:23.3 | get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my |
| 0:27.1 | take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, I'm diving in to the fact that I think |
| 0:34.7 | things are actually pretty bad right now. I want to start by saying this. |
| 0:39.3 | The fundamental promise of this news publication is viewpoint diversity. |
| 0:44.8 | I built Tangle because I wanted a place where conservatives, liberals, and everyone in between |
| 0:49.4 | could gather under one roof and trust the news they were reading. |
| 0:53.1 | In an era when the media trust is at an all-time |
| 0:55.3 | low, polarization is increasingly extreme, and so few people seem capable of talking to each other |
| 1:00.9 | across the partisan divide, this North Star has always served us well. In order to fulfill this promise |
| 1:07.4 | to earn the trust of the biggest Trump supporters and the most progressive leftists and all the people who land somewhere between them, we offer some simple promises. |
| 1:16.0 | Chief among them is viewpoint diversity in our content. Most days, this is what the left is saying |
| 1:22.0 | and what the right is saying, though sometimes will offer pieces that counter each other. |
| 1:26.5 | For instance, a Tangle staff member is |
| 1:28.2 | working on a piece responding to what I'm writing here today. We also lean into transparency in how we |
| 1:34.1 | work by featuring corrections prominently and sharing and explaining our editorial policies. Finally, |
| 1:40.5 | we try to show that we're fallible human beings who can make mistakes, learn, |
| 1:44.5 | and change their minds rather than pretend we comprise a flawless, high-minded institution. |
| 1:50.4 | We regularly feature reader criticisms, and I encourage anyone who disagrees with today's |
| 1:55.0 | podcast to write in or comment so we can consider your thoughts. |
| 1:59.5 | We're not perfect, obviously. Our system has flaws. |
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