Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement
NPR ^ | 10/29/24 | David Folkenflik
Posted on 10/29/2024 10:55:32 AM PDT by DallasBiff
The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of roughly 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
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KEYWORDS: endorsements
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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.
1 posted on 10/29/2024 10:55:32 AM PDT by DallasBiff
To: DallasBiff
2 posted on 10/29/2024 10:58:14 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
To: DallasBiff
3 posted on 10/29/2024 10:59:05 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (.You will suffer from one: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. )
To: DallasBiff
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!
4 posted on 10/29/2024 11:01:07 AM PDT by devere
To: DallasBiff
5 posted on 10/29/2024 11:01:20 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: DallasBiff
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.
6 posted on 10/29/2024 11:05:43 AM PDT by mikelets456
To: devere
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.
7 posted on 10/29/2024 11:05:46 AM PDT by laconic ( )
To: DallasBiff
Has that harpy Jennifer Rubin resigned yet?
8 posted on 10/29/2024 11:08:05 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
To: Flaming Conservative
Those 200,000 will have to get their propaganda and fake news somewhere else.
9 posted on 10/29/2024 11:09:58 AM PDT by brookwood (51 Intelligence Agents say Russia Is Trying To Influence The 2024 Election)
To: devere
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.
10 posted on 10/29/2024 11:13:17 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.f)
To: wildcard_redneck
“...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.
11 posted on 10/29/2024 11:17:23 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
To: DallasBiff
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.
12 posted on 10/29/2024 11:28:14 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
To: DallasBiff
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).
13 posted on 10/29/2024 11:31:31 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (My opinions are the rusult of 80 years of life, you may not like them but who cares.)
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