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

[just444]

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. https://t.co/KOENBL5RHp
- Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) October 28, 2024

sourceICYMY; WaPo owner Bezos blocked a planned Presidential endorsement for Kamala Harris

Comments

[pepsi_twist9]

I care about the journalist but it does make me raise an eyebrow about what content is allowed through the filters anyhow. A publication that censors this content could be censoring elsewhere. One can only hope the journalists can find jobs at other places that respect their work

[sillyskinny]

Of course they are censoring aka editorializing.

Newspapers are run by people who have agendas & personal / business relationships.

[squirrels_oh_no]

The editorial department is fully separate from news, but the new editor at the Washington Post has been called out before for killing stories about himself.

[likeiused2]

allow me to provide a real story I heard today. not fake news. real.
amazon buries the third party seller's listings and skews the algorithm towards their own products. I know this bc my s/o's business partner's relative is liquidating their 3rd party fulfillment center right now.

journalists with integrity will happily flock to other publications in my dream world. don't tell me the truth. work for companies that deserve your labor IF you have the choice and privilege.

[whiling]

Meanwhile, over at the LA Times, its billionaire owner's daughter said the paper refused to endorse Harris because of her support of Israel... except the editor (who resigned because she has professional integrity) said that was never communicated to the staff and then the owner himself said um no, Israel/Gaza has absolutely nothing to do with it lol

It's just a perfect microcosm of the shitshow of our media landscape now. Billionaires, misinformation, family drama, the ongoing perpetuation of the debunked lie, etc.

[2_on]

i feel like we've reached a really scary point and i don't know where it's going to go from here. the wealth gap is the highest it's ever been. billionaires are actively subverting democracy. there needs to be some kind of revolution already.

[distant_lines]

The French may have their issues, but damn if they weren't onto a good thing with the guillotine.

[crimps4]

I didn't do this, because the Post already had a bad round of layoffs this year, and I don't want them to lose money. I want Bezos to lose money, so I'm weaning myself off Prime and Whole Foods. We need good journalists, and they're not the cause of this BS.

[irajaxon]

i want him to lose money, too. but the problem is that he's so deeply embedded himself into everything we do through Amazon Web Services, putting money in his pocket is almost unavoidable. it sucks.

[crimps4]

Ugh, that's so true. Fuck him/capitalism/the system.

[allons_y42]

This isn't talked about enough! AWS is what pretty much all companies use and so few people understand how much power that gives him.

[hellcatshalala]

are people shaming who cancelled the subscription? I swearrrr americans have such insane views about everything, that's the easiest way to protest it!!! unsubscribing Amazon won't mean anything because at this point you can't possibly hurt his pockets. he didn't buy a journal to get rich, he bought it to get more powerful... the journalists are also very much aware whose fault is this, and it's not whoever is protesting against wapo

[distant_lines]

ONTD has been super weird recently.