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.
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On another note, I believe that the only conservative readers the WP has left are the ones that post their articles here on FR.
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/
Fetch me my clutching pearls and lead me to my fainting couch. I have the sads that the DNC whores have the sads
Pretty sad, when Jeff Bezos thinks his own publication is lacking.
This is the leftist version of Bud Light. The wapo doesn’t return to its glory, anymore than BL.
Awwww, loser WaPo employees have the sadz because Boss Jeff is more interested in money than their causes.
Wait till Tuesday... It’s going to get a lot sadder.
Nailed it.
So, they admitting that they are propagandists and not objective journalists. What a bunch of babies.
Honestly, I doubt it was 250,000. The lefties are pushing that number, and I think it is fake news.
“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.
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).
The difference? They didn’t care when they lost conservative readers - you know - the garbage.
Had you remained true to your profession things might be different.
“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”.
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.
“I doubt it was 250,000.”
I wonder if they had that many to begin with.
250,000 liberals upset someone decide not to endorse an American hating lunatic.. what’s new?
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