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Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers (www.theguardian.com)

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Deterioration of the Washington Post’s subscriber base continued on Tuesday, hours after its proprietor, Jeff Bezos, defended the decision to forgo formally endorsing a presidential candidate as part of an effort to restore trust in the media.

The publication has now shed 250,000 subscribers, or 10% of the 2.5 million customers it had before the decision was made public on Friday, according to the NPR reporter David Folkenflik.

A day earlier, 200,000 had left according to the same outlet.

The numbers are based on the number of cancellation emails that have been sent out, according to a source at the paper, though the subscriber dashboard is no longer viewable to employees.

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[-] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

That is an annual loss of $30 million. ha ha

[-] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

let's gooooo!!

[-] GelatinGeorge@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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[-] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

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[-] Charlatan@lemm.ee -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I gotta be honest... I don't think news papers should officially endorse a candidate. Report on the issues accurately and call it a day. It reduces the perception of bias.

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[+] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml -51 points 3 weeks ago

I have not been following this.

So, the headline says that the post is not endorsing a candidate.

And due to that, people are cancelling subscriptions.

Erm. Journalism should not be endorsing a candidate. Only reporting on events in an unbiased manner.

What am I missing?

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

That's great in theory, but this isn't the Election to not endorse a candidate. They've also been endorsing candidates for a while. So it's a clear signal of bezos tacit endorsement of trump.

[-] celeste@kbin.earth 5 points 3 weeks ago

Their editorial board has endorsed candidates for years. They were prepared to do so again, and then bezos met with trump and canceled the endorsement that was all ready to go. If they had stopped endorsements earlier, it wouldn't be notable.

[-] kriz@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 weeks ago

Jesus christ ppl don't downvote someone for respectfully asking a question.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing about it comes across as respectful. They openly admit they haven't been following the story and don't have context, and then put out an opinion on the story when all the facts and context they needed were in the story this post is linking to.

The fact that that opinion was essentially regurgitating Bezos' talking point just makes it worse.

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