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The Washington Post Has Officially Lost 90 Percent of Its Readership
RedState ^ | 1/13/2025 | Brandon Morse

Posted on 01/14/2025 1:43:38 PM PST by Signalman

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1 posted on 01/14/2025 1:43:38 PM PST by Signalman
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how careless of them to lose 90% of their readers...readers must have cutback on their fiction reading.


2 posted on 01/14/2025 1:47:53 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy. until Jan 20, 2025)
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To: Signalman

The other 10% is reporters/talk hosts that keep them around for the laugh factor.


3 posted on 01/14/2025 1:48:16 PM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: Signalman
the Post had stopped publicly disclosing its traffic numbers in press releases,

But I thought they said Democracy Dies in Darkness?

I wonder how many pro-Trump stories, fact sheets and statements have been deleted by the Post over the years.

4 posted on 01/14/2025 1:48:27 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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The Washington Post is dying, like Democracy does in darkness.

Democracy dies with Democrats.

5 posted on 01/14/2025 1:50:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Signalman

It is a dinosaur in a tarpit, slowly sinking.

Someone may put it out of its misery, or consume it an emerge an different creature.


6 posted on 01/14/2025 1:50:15 PM PST by marktwain
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To: RetiredTexasVet

The elderly don’t even read the obituaries anymore.Nursing Homes get a single copy for the entire building to read in the lobby.


7 posted on 01/14/2025 1:51:27 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: frank ballenger

Perhaps the sort of “Democracy” that the WaPo advocates SHOULD die, whether in darkness or when it is exposed to light.


8 posted on 01/14/2025 1:52:19 PM PST by alloysteel (This is yet another test. There are no right or wrong answers, only the correct response for you.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They should print their obituary.


9 posted on 01/14/2025 1:52:41 PM PST by cnsmom
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The Washington Post has done incredible work in keeping American Citizens in the dark.


10 posted on 01/14/2025 1:54:29 PM PST by marktwain
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Composting


11 posted on 01/14/2025 1:55:31 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: Signalman

The hard paywall probably had more to do with the readership drop.

I lived in northern Virginia in the mid-eighties. Even then the Post was known to be hard left. I saw bumper stickers reading “I Don’t Believe the Post”.

The local readership doesn’t share the country’s mood of course. It is not like the Washington Times is booming.


12 posted on 01/14/2025 1:57:55 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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According to Semafor.com, WaPo has bled out its traffic, and that bleed was heavy. From 2021, it's lost 90 percent of its daily users:

Wow. I think the best format for them was to follow the Daily Mail.

And do actual reporting.

They'll attract viewers that way.

The Daily Mail's website had more than 218 million unique visitors per month in 2020.

13 posted on 01/14/2025 1:58:09 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Good one. The old NY Herald Tribune had three writers who were friends and each claimed they could leave the newspaper and make it in writing on their own. They finally took the dare and left.

Charles Portis wrote True Grit made into the John Wayne movie.

Jimmy Breslin wrote Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? about the NY Mets and the Mafia comedy The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (movie with Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young and Robert De Niro).

And Tom Wolfe who wrote many nonfiction books and novels including The Right Stuff and the Bonfire of the Vanities ( movie with Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis).


14 posted on 01/14/2025 1:58:13 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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The leftist-rabid Washington Compost needs to be put to sleep.
15 posted on 01/14/2025 1:58:47 PM PST by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: Signalman

Shut ‘er down!


16 posted on 01/14/2025 2:00:06 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: RetiredTexasVet

I would say the Post is just about as successful as Blue Origin. We’ll find out in a few days.


17 posted on 01/14/2025 2:01:05 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Signalman

“The Washington Post Has Officially Lost 90 Percent of Its Readership.”

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18 posted on 01/14/2025 2:02:27 PM PST by Belteshazzar
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It looks suspiciously like the subscribers weren’t real but were “bot” accounts, only there to pump up the numbers, including for advertising dollars.


19 posted on 01/14/2025 2:02:48 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Signalman

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20 posted on 01/14/2025 2:03:55 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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