Posted on 03/02/2025 12:22:14 AM PST by Libloather
More than 75,000 digital subscribers have canceled their subscriptions to The Washington Post following an announcement by its owner, Jeff Bezos, that the paper’s opinion section would be revamped to align with libertarian ideals touting “personal liberties” and “free markets,” according to a report.
The decision, which Bezos announced on Wednesday, triggered immediate upheaval within the organization, including the resignation of opinions editor David Shipley, who had unsuccessfully attempted to dissuade Bezos from the change.
A previous mass exodus of subscribers began in late October when Bezos reportedly blocked a planned endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Between that decision and Election Day, over 300,000 subscribers severed ties with the Post, amounting to more than 12% of its digital subscribers.
Despite an aggressive push to attract new subscribers — adding 400,000 at discounted rates — the paper still has suffered a “net loss of a couple hundred thousand” paying subscribers, NPR reported.
Many within the newsroom believe that without Bezos’ interventions, the paper’s subscriber base would have remained significantly higher, according to National Public Radio, which first reported the latest round of cancellations.
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“Free markets” are what is killing the USA’s industrial economy. Besos can stuff it.
Liberals can’t handle freedom. They demand it for themselves, but condemn it for everyone else.
That just proves that the hard-core leftists, who are the base of the Post’s subscribers, are frightened to death of reading anything that conflicts with their worldview.
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