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Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement. (text.npr.org)

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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 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

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[-] JRepin@lemmy.ml 219 points 4 weeks ago

It would hurt this sociopath Bezos a lot more if people also canceled Amazon services en mass

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[-] cabbage@piefed.social 156 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

To anyone unsubscribing: Remember to subscribe somewhere else instead. If not you're just helping Bezos achieve his goal of the death of journalism.

@ProPublica@newsie.social is one good alternative.

As others have said, if you want to hurt Bezos, target Amazon.

[-] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 26 points 4 weeks ago

This was the straw that finally got my wife to agree to let me cancel prime. I wanted to as soon as add were added to video. Sadly it auto renewed on the 10th of Oct :(

[-] Justinahole@lemmy.world 22 points 4 weeks ago

This exact thing happened to me. I cancelled anyway and they refunded most of the subscription fee. Just do it. Wish i could have told them why I was cancelling.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 weeks ago

404 media seems nice

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[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 107 points 4 weeks ago

WaPo - "Democracy dies in darkness"

Bezos - "I can deliver darkness to everyone in America in 2 days or less"

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[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 94 points 4 weeks ago

I have a funny feeling Jeff doesn't own the paper for the money.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 41 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I think Elon mismanaged Twitter tremendously but a very clear "this is my toy and I'll break it if i want" message was sent and a very dangerous message it was. Gives me the same vibe. Bezos doesn't need to own it but he does and he'll do what he pleases.

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[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 86 points 4 weeks ago

Something darkly funny to me is all the people who work there whose job it is to grow subscribers seeing their last three years of hard work flushed down the drain on the whims of the owner.

I'd love to sit in on performance reviews for Q4's end.

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[-] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 78 points 4 weeks ago

People need to cancel Amazon prime instead

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[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 4 weeks ago

Finally got around to canceling my Prime membership. I've been relying on Amazon to get all the shit I can't buy in person, but I'll figure out some other way to get those.

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[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 67 points 4 weeks ago

The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

200,000 so far

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[-] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 49 points 4 weeks ago

Man, Trump is such a bad businessman that he kills other people's companies as well.

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[-] 314xel@lemmy.world 47 points 4 weeks ago

Three of the top 10 viewed stories on the Post’s website Sunday were articles written by Post staffers outraged by Bezos’ decision. The top one was humor columnist Alexandra Petri’s piece, headlined, “It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president.”

[-] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 43 points 4 weeks ago

Bezos is scared of Trump.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 weeks ago

This is the reason. In our fucked up country, Trump, a rapist convicted felon, has a legitimate chance of winning the presidency.

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[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 32 points 4 weeks ago

AMAZON. FLEE AMAZON!!!

[-] ThatOneKrazyKaptain@lemmy.world 22 points 4 weeks ago

What do you predict Turnout being this year? 2020 was 65.9% of the VEP(Voting Eligable Population). The lowest in the internet era was 2012 at 58%. Average is 2004 and 2016 at 60.1 and 59.3 each, 2008 was the previous high at 61.1

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 21 points 4 weeks ago

Now triple it and do the same to Amazon.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 19 points 4 weeks ago

I'm glad this happens in a world where newspapers endorse candidates, but I also don't get why newspapers are allowed to endorse candidates in the first place. I guess that is the least of our concerns when you look at media bias, but still....

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 weeks ago

wow, that is significant.

Good to hear

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago

Wow. A huge number.

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

The question is, can it grow to a point that will put a big enough dent in their profits to matter…

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

next start finding alternatives to Amazon

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