Posted on 10/29/2024 10:55:32 AM PDT by DallasBiff
The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of roughly 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
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This whole non-endorsement thing is very weird, I'm still skeptical.
Jimi crack korn.
Bezos won’t care.
The problem Bezos has is the gaslighted brainwashed Post readership devoutly believes in the lies the Post has been telling them. Look at most of the comments on his OpeEd!
Which columnists?
These people will be back drooling if Trump gets elected….Trump was the “best thing” for the leftist media. I think Bezos wants Trump to win…for this reason only.
Hopefully, the US taxpayer is going to “flee” NPR if Trump wins and takes Congress. This outfit has been a shill for liberals for sixty years using taxpayer money for a bunch of overpaid leftists. Let them try to find a comparable job in the private sector.
Has that harpy Jennifer Rubin resigned yet?
Those 200,000 will have to get their propaganda and fake news somewhere else.
You will know that Bezos is serious about reforming his Marxist propaganda rag when he fires half of the reporters and brings in fresh blood that hasn’t gone through the reeducation camps known as journalism schools.
“...he fires half of the reporters and brings in fresh blood that hasn’t gone through the reeducation camps known as journalism schools.”
I wonder if the businessman in Bezos is banking on AI? Tossing out the dead wood definately makes the corporate vessel handle better.
Interesting factoid. It’s owned by one of the very richest people on planet earth as a boutique project as a loss leader. There has never been a day or Mr. Amazon actually believed he would make a newspaper profitable. He couldn’t give a tinkers damn about a few people not subscribing.
This whole non-endorsement thing is very weird, I’m still skeptical.
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It is good to be skeptical but as the song goes, “...the times they are a changing..”
The “news’ business is not what it once was and news outlets are no longer the gate keepers nor are they the only source for news.
By catering to the extreme left news outlets have pretty much blocked the majority of potential consumers of their products.
It would be like a bakery that only sold one type of bread. Some would like it but most would go elsewhere.
By moving back to towards the center and be willing to be critical of both extremes they could attract more consumers (and make more money).
If they don’t do this they will go the way of the buggy whip manufacturer (perhaps we should change this to rotary phone manufacturers).
Bezos wanted to increase his business losses for this year’s tax returns
Like always, I assume NPR has problems with objective reality. I bet $10.00 they are exaggerating the number of disgruntled radical liberal readers to make it sound worse than it is. 200,000 is a nice round number.
Here’s hoping soon.
That the assault on free private media is being launched from NPR should be worth noting.
Bezos is rich enough to take a short term loss on a prestige property that never made him much money compared to his main business.
I didn’t know there were that many elected Democrat politician in the DC area...
If polls are to believed, our country is about equally divided. So, Bezos just lost 8% of his 2.5 million paid subscribers. Most likely from the extreme left.
But he stands to pick up 2.5 million more, if he’s good to his word about wanting balance in his newspaper. It might take a while, but seems to be a pretty good trade, from a business perspective.
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