Washington Post Publisher Admits: 'We Are In a Hole, and We Have Been for Some Time'

Hotair ^ | 05/24/2024 | John Sexton

[Drew68]

TL;DR but it's what has happened to legacy media across the board.

When they went from and advertiser-based business model to a subscription-based business model, it was the death knell. Now they have to preach to the choir to pay the bills.

[dfwgator]

There was a time when most big cities had two newspapers, one was more conservative, and the other was more liberal.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

the Post is about as monotone and dull as the People's Daily

Twitter/X was a passion project for Musk.

Bozos loves his boat a lot more than the Washington Post.

[Allegra]

[Jonty30]

They also spent 50 years lying to the American public. Every person that quit their subscriptions walked away permanently.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Sweet. Washington Post tears refresh me like a magic tonic.

[BipolarBob]

I’ll stick with Pravda. It’s not as radical as these Democrat papers.

[Drew68]

There was a time when most big cities had two newspapers, one was more conservative, and the other was more liberal.

More like, "center-left" and "center-right" and one was always a tabloid format while the other was a broadsheet format.

I kinda miss this.

[DCPatriot]

Bezos can carry them just using the “Petty Cash” cigar box.

[Beowulf9]

Good point.

[Allegra]

There was a time when most big cities had two newspapers, one was more conservative, and the other was more liberal.

When we lived in the DC area, my parents got the Post in the mornings (and made fun of how liberal it was, even back then) and the Star in the afternoons. I think the Star shut down around 1980-ish.

[Gene Eric]

Yet another subtle indicator that the Elitists know they pushed too hard.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Bezos is losing his shirt. And that makes me happy.

[dfwgator]

It’s a drop in the bucket for him.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I'll take it.

The Clinton buddy is a pretty high up on my list of people that I really want to see fail.

[frank ballenger]

And the Rolling Stones’ new 45 single Satisfaction was first played on our am car radios.

[pepsionice]

Valid point. From my mil-years...I remember almost every base assignment in the US...finding two papers offered. The only time you could ever tell they were ‘different’...every two years in the election cycle...they staked out positions.

Somewhere around 2000 to 2004...you could tell print-media (newspapers, Ti*e, Newsweak, Nat’l Geo) was dying off. I remember stepping into a dentist office...attempting to read Reader’s Digest, and suddenly feeling a propaganda moment.

The last time I visited the US...going to my home-town and attempting to read the local paper...it was a mess. Daily newspaper in the 1970s had 24 pages of content. Modern day content maxes at 8 pages. You can read it in 10 minutes. Other than the local page and Obit page...it’s worthless, but you pay 3 times what you paid in 1978.

[FLT-bird]

I have a solution. Shut it down. Fire everybody.

[TalBlack]

You’d think people who’ve been reporting stories of interest to the public for decades would hit the digital age transition running. I wonder why they suck so bad at it?