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

Skip to comments.

Washington Post staffer says morale is down, colleagues think management is lying: ‘A lot of sad here’
Fox News ^ | October 31, 2024 | Brian Flood , Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Posted on 10/31/2024 10:26:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Some Washington Post employees are peeved that executive editor Matt Murray won’t reveal how many subscriptions have been canceled since the "Democracy Dies in Darkness" paper declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.

Last week, the Post upset liberals when it announced that it wouldn’t endorse a candidate in the upcoming presidential election despite years of hostility toward former President Trump and a reported endorsement of Harris already drafted and ready to publish. Outrage quickly poured in as many liberal readers canceled their subscriptions and urged others to do the same.

The Post’s in-house media reporter Elahe Izadi reported this week that 250,000 subscribers had canceled since the "decades-long practice of endorsing presidential candidates" was scrapped. A Post spokeswoman declined comment to the Post’s own media reporter, which was printed in the Post’s report.

As Izadi noted, "The Post is a privately held company that does not typically share such data with the public," but a current employee said that colleagues think management should be more transparent.

"In a staff meeting earlier this week, Matt Murray was asked to confirm media reports about the number. He said he didn’t know them. I know some colleagues think that’s a lie," a current staffer told Fox News Digital.

A second Washington Post staffer didn’t go as far and suggested Murray was simply implying that he didn’t want to check the numbers because he wanted to see how it all shook out.

"Whether it’s believable is another question. But he insisted at the meeting he purposely was not seeking to know because he wanted things to settle down. He also mentioned the election would affect the numbers, with people ending or adding [subscriptions] depending on the results," the second staffer told Fox News Digital.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democratmedia; leftwinfmedia; lol; media; mediabias; msm; starunmedia; washingtoncompost
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-38 next last

1 posted on 10/31/2024 10:26:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

On another note, I believe that the only conservative readers the WP has left are the ones that post their articles here on FR.


2 posted on 10/31/2024 10:32:49 PM PDT by Revel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

Especially when they see headlines like this one.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos wants more conservative opinion writers at paper: report
https://nypost.com/2024/10/28/media/washington-post-owner-jeff-bezos-wants-conservative-writers/


3 posted on 10/31/2024 10:34:13 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

Fetch me my clutching pearls and lead me to my fainting couch. I have the sads that the DNC whores have the sads


4 posted on 10/31/2024 10:51:01 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tom Tetroxide

Pretty sad, when Jeff Bezos thinks his own publication is lacking.


5 posted on 10/31/2024 11:10:34 PM PDT by Does so (Vote for The Anti-War President...🇺🇦...Dem☭crats...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

This is the leftist version of Bud Light. The wapo doesn’t return to its glory, anymore than BL.


6 posted on 10/31/2024 11:59:31 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

Awwww, loser WaPo employees have the sadz because Boss Jeff is more interested in money than their causes.


7 posted on 11/01/2024 12:45:15 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

Wait till Tuesday... It’s going to get a lot sadder.


8 posted on 11/01/2024 1:07:30 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mikey_hates_everything

Nailed it.


9 posted on 11/01/2024 1:09:06 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

10 posted on 11/01/2024 1:39:41 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

So, they admitting that they are propagandists and not objective journalists. What a bunch of babies.


11 posted on 11/01/2024 1:47:18 AM PDT by vivenne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

Honestly, I doubt it was 250,000. The lefties are pushing that number, and I think it is fake news.


12 posted on 11/01/2024 2:58:43 AM PDT by Fido969
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

“Washington Post staffer says morale is down...”

I want them to feel severe, never ending, excruciating pain. They are going to get it in a few days when Trump is reelected by the American people as the rightful, true President. Then the democrat cockroaches at the Post will finally realize what is coming. Their fate has been sealed. It’s going to be glorious.


13 posted on 11/01/2024 3:35:58 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

If Leftists don’t like the Washington Post, they’re MORE THAN WELCOME to start their own newspaper.

After all, isn’t that what they kept telling us, at least until we started doing just that, as in Twitter. Of course now they’re telling us that our outlets have to be shut down due to the danger their reporting presents (since the truth is dangerous to them, I guess).


14 posted on 11/01/2024 3:40:20 AM PDT by BobL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Revel

The difference? They didn’t care when they lost conservative readers - you know - the garbage.


15 posted on 11/01/2024 3:51:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat fraud: They vote the people who don't show up to vote. Everything else is red herring...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican
Good. As part of the leftist propaganda machine, you deserve sadness.

Had you remained true to your profession things might be different.

16 posted on 11/01/2024 3:56:31 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Does so

“Pretty sad, when Jeff Bezos thinks his own publication is lacking.”

Well, he flim-flammed as long as he could; the party’s over now. Now he has to pretend to be an actual journalist.

Probably won’t happen, but even though they lost subscribers there’s a chance they’ll gain some who like the possibility of “fair and balanced”.


17 posted on 11/01/2024 4:00:41 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the felon with the pierced ear.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

There is hope. There are airline flights leaving America around the clock, destined for socialist, foreign countries. American Leftists with the sads over Donald Trump can book one of those flights and flee to a place in which they can live their dreams of pure socialism.


18 posted on 11/01/2024 4:01:10 AM PDT by Gnome1949
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Fido969

“I doubt it was 250,000.”

I wonder if they had that many to begin with.


19 posted on 11/01/2024 4:01:45 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the felon with the pierced ear.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

250,000 liberals upset someone decide not to endorse an American hating lunatic.. what’s new?


20 posted on 11/01/2024 4:01:58 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-38 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