Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Washington Post Earnings Drop 85 Percent (Good News)
NewsBusters.org ^ | May 3, 2013 | Paul Bremmer

Posted on 05/03/2013 6:36:43 PM PDT by Kaslin

Politico reported today that net income at The Washington Post Co. dropped an astonishing 85 percent from the first quarter of last year to the first quarter of this year. The newspaper division posted an operating loss of $34.5 million over that period.

It looks as if the Post, like many other newspapers around the country, may have entered an age of decline. Newspapers just aren’t as profitable as they once were. The proliferation of online news outlets has given consumers a plethora of free news sources to choose from. But another factor may be the Post's persistent liberal bias, which is a turnoff to potential conservative subscribers.

Here at NewsBusters, we have written a lot about the Washington Post over the years. It has been a reliable source of liberal slant, giving us something to rail against every week. Take their treatment of conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin, for example. Rubin has criticized both conservatives and liberals in her blogs, but the Post editors have a tendency to print her conservative-bashing blogs while ignoring her pieces that criticize Democrats or liberals.

Of course, this is because the Post loves Democrats and liberals. When President Obama cancelled White House tours to try and make Americans scared of the sequester, the Post cheered his decision. They called it a “civics lesson” that helped the administration show the sequester’s pain. Never mind that the tour cancellations were completely unnecessary.

Like most mainstream media outlets, the Post vigorously advocated for gay marriage ahead of the Supreme Court hearings on the matter back in March. Post blogger Chris Cillizza went so far as to declare the debate over and social conservatives defeated before the court had even heard the cases.


The paper has been willing to excuse the sad state of D.C’s welfare system as well. Last month, when the Washington Examiner reported that most of the city’s welfare recipients don’t look for work, the Post remained silent on the issue. Why should residents of the D.C. area pay for a subscription when the paper is asleep at the switch on local stories like that?!

The Post also bows to the altar of political correctness. After the recent bombings in Boston, the paper ran a psychoanalytical piece that turned attention away from the Tsarnaev murderers and onto supposedly Islamophobic Americans.

Perhaps the Post should consider that its consistent left-wing bias is turning off readers and contributing to the paper’s decline.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: liberalmedia; liberals; washingtonpost; wp
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-24 next last

1 posted on 05/03/2013 6:36:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
DC is not the only place the Post covers and delivers to ~ actually, it's one of the smaller places.

The Post has had a letwingtard bias for decades ~ even with Conservatives in charge.

The only solution is bankruptcy.

2 posted on 05/03/2013 6:39:22 PM PDT by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

F Yeah!


3 posted on 05/03/2013 6:40:41 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Their business model needs some Progressive updating and input ..... free stuff, give away more free stuff......


4 posted on 05/03/2013 7:02:16 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (You don't have to be stupid to become a Progressive, but it does speed up the process.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the Koch brothers bought the WP at the same time as the Chicago Trib and the LA Times?

The liberals would have a dog stroke.


5 posted on 05/03/2013 7:03:09 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Tee-Hee! :)


6 posted on 05/03/2013 7:04:58 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

“Income” would be a better word than “earnings”. “Earnings” implies that work was used to produce something useful and desirable.


7 posted on 05/03/2013 7:10:07 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
Psst... hey, WaPo... Follow the money.
8 posted on 05/03/2013 7:12:47 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Good news, but I don’t just want for the lefty propaganda rags to go bankrupt, I want for them to be replaced with real newspapers that strive for objectivity and somehow manage to turn a profit.


9 posted on 05/03/2013 7:27:42 PM PDT by TChad (Call them Oppressives, not Progressives)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

The giant liberal rags are in a world of pain and the diagnosis is end stage liberal disease. Mark their charts “DNR” and only give them palliative care.


10 posted on 05/03/2013 7:42:37 PM PDT by JPG (Stay strong.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

When the LA Times goes conservative and starts turning a profit - AND’s running conservative news - liberals will wake up to how they’ve treated us.

The icing on the cake will be systems of bullsh*t “prizes’ awarded to ‘outstanding journalists’. Of course the definition of “outstanding’ will be ‘writes conservative...’ We can call the award ‘Koch’ - and winning a Kock will be reason for newsrooms to feel great pride...


11 posted on 05/03/2013 7:46:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (The screed of so-called journalists: 'If it doesn't fit, you must omit.' - - freeper Vigilanteman)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Good news about The Washington Post. Now when will the NY Slimes get lost? That newspaper is evil. When I pass it on display on a news stand, I feel contaminated.


12 posted on 05/03/2013 7:46:48 PM PDT by BusterBear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

13 posted on 05/03/2013 7:59:15 PM PDT by rabidralph (http://www.cafepress.com/westernwis)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

I think it is just that the upcoming generation simply does like to read the printed page. They don’t seem even to be familiar with the comics.


14 posted on 05/03/2013 8:14:49 PM PDT by RobbyS
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: muawiyah

When did they ever have conservatives in charge?


15 posted on 05/03/2013 10:55:56 PM PDT by princeofdarkness (The GOP is the present version of 1940 France and it will only get worse.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Aurora Sentinel to follow, one hopes. Thanks Kaslin. Another one for the Koch brothers to buy.


16 posted on 05/03/2013 11:33:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: princeofdarkness

Way, way, way, way back a long time ago.


17 posted on 05/04/2013 5:13:38 AM PDT by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

I didn’t know the POST was even profitable without Kaplan


18 posted on 05/04/2013 5:24:51 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

If they did they would lose almost all advertisers and face strikes from the employees. The MSM would rather go out of business than allow a conservative media outlet to exist


19 posted on 05/04/2013 5:27:42 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: yefragetuwrabrumuy; Diana in Wisconsin

It occurred to me that rather than submit to the tax the rich scheme, the Koch brothers should incur tax exempt expenses in lieu of paying taxes.

They should form a syndicate of their super rich brethren and spend money on newspapers. The papers are a losing proposition, but not so bad as the Marxist rat hole of Obamaism.

The American Truth Syndicate or perhaps Amalgamated Truth Redistributors could be the name

The money is going to be gone.....poof. Might as well make a difference rather than see it destroy America


20 posted on 05/04/2013 5:38:03 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-24 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson