Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement

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Well they lost 8% of their radical left base, is the WaPo trying to make it up by being more fair.

This whole non-endorsement thing is very weird, I'm still skeptical.

The problem Bezos has is the gaslighted brainwashed Post readership devoutly believes in the lies the Post has been telling them. Look at most of the comments on his OpeEd!

These people will be back drooling if Trump gets elected….Trump was the “best thing” for the leftist media. I think Bezos wants Trump to win…for this reason only.

Hopefully, the US taxpayer is going to “flee” NPR if Trump wins and takes Congress. This outfit has been a shill for liberals for sixty years using taxpayer money for a bunch of overpaid leftists. Let them try to find a comparable job in the private sector.

Has that harpy Jennifer Rubin resigned yet?

Those 200,000 will have to get their propaganda and fake news somewhere else.

You will know that Bezos is serious about reforming his Marxist propaganda rag when he fires half of the reporters and brings in fresh blood that hasn’t gone through the reeducation camps known as journalism schools.

“...he fires half of the reporters and brings in fresh blood that hasn’t gone through the reeducation camps known as journalism schools.”

I wonder if the businessman in Bezos is banking on AI? Tossing out the dead wood definately makes the corporate vessel handle better.

Interesting factoid. It’s owned by one of the very richest people on planet earth as a boutique project as a loss leader. There has never been a day or Mr. Amazon actually believed he would make a newspaper profitable. He couldn’t give a tinkers damn about a few people not subscribing.

This whole non-endorsement thing is very weird, I’m still skeptical.

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It is good to be skeptical but as the song goes, “...the times they are a changing..”

The “news’ business is not what it once was and news outlets are no longer the gate keepers nor are they the only source for news.

By catering to the extreme left news outlets have pretty much blocked the majority of potential consumers of their products.

It would be like a bakery that only sold one type of bread. Some would like it but most would go elsewhere.

By moving back to towards the center and be willing to be critical of both extremes they could attract more consumers (and make more money).

If they don’t do this they will go the way of the buggy whip manufacturer (perhaps we should change this to rotary phone manufacturers).