Washington Post sees 200,000 cancellations because Jeff Bezos had to impress his mannish girlfriend

Democracy dies in what?

4.6% of their readership, good start.

Bad pussy, R1.

Does anyone know what is the most popular paper after the NYT? And please only papers of record not tabloids like the Post.

Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

[quote]Does anyone know what is the most popular paper after the NYT?

#1 is the Wall Street Journal. Times is #2.

I think after wall street journal, USA today is the next popular paper. Washington Post is more prestigious but generally they didn't do print newspapers outside of the northeast I believe. Obviously the internet has changed this.

His long term wife Mackenzie Scott was the real gem 💎

Dirty Sanchez

Busted Bezos

Will Washington Post staff now hold a Muscular Pussy Telethon?

I’m not in journalism but I always looked up to the Post - can you imagine Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham doing this?!

“For decades, the Washington Post's editorials have been a beacon of light, signaling hope to dissidents, political prisoners and the voiceless,” David Hoffman wrote in a letter Monday explaining his decision to leave the editorial board. “When victims of repression were harassed, exiled, imprisoned and murdered, we made sure the whole world knew the truth.

“I believe we face a very real threat of autocracy in the candidacy of Donald Trump,” Hoffman added in his letter to Editorial Page Editor David Shipley, which was obtained by NPR. “ I find it untenable and unconscionable that we have lost our voice."

In fairness, perhaps someone with US govt contracts should not own a newspaper.

[bold]Re Bezos, it was worse than cowardice; it was panic cowardice.[/bold] Bezos and his space company (Blue Origins) were all set up to meet with Trump. Trump even went to Austin, Texas. Then, like a true dirty negotiator, with everyone ready to go, Trump made one last ask.

Bezos had to pull the WAPO endorsement. He hurriedly called WAPO and pulled the editorial at the last minute. Trump waited until the non-endorsement was reported before he met with Blue Origins.

What a spectacle, in Washington DC, no less. Next to Hollywood, one of the most gossipy places in the country.

Did someone threaten Bezos with releasing his nudie pics?

I cancelled my subscription immediately. I knew from the WaPo comments section that thousands of others did, too. So happy to hear over 200k! I might resubscribe if Kamala wins because I want to support the journalists. But absolutely won't if Trump wins.

Jeff Bozo can eat a dick

Bezos’ girlfriend showed up on The View one day and she comes off like a bubble headed slut.

Good to know it's over 200K that cancelled their subscriptions - I did the same (digital) but it doesn't end until April 2025. The impact on BOZOs is minimal as his big $$$ comes from Amazon/Prime, Whole Foods, Alexia, etc. I've had an Amazon account since 1998 although I don't have a Prime membership. It was said on Deadline: White House that all the poll workers and other front line election workers are facing threats for their efforts. BOZOs denied the endorsement due some DUMP demand that he not endorse anyone otherwise his contracts could be in jeopardy.

I didn’t know he owned it. But Graham and Bradlee weren’t flying beacons of truth and light either. The more you read the more you know.

How many are willing to give up their Prime account?

You people who are crowing over your cancelled subscriptions... you're morons.

What America needs are more financially healthy newspapers not less.

You want to hurt Bezos or possibly have some kind of effect? Cancel your fucking Amazon, Amazon Prime accounts. Do NOT shop through Amazon and affiliated companies. Do NOT go to Whole Foods.

The paper lost tens of millions of dollars last year. If Bezos dumps it, who do you think is going to buy it? ESPECIALLY if it will be even further in the red because of you morons who armchair warriored a subscription cancellation. What big men you are! A few clicks and boy did you show it to Bezos!! I bet you got a twinge in your crotch too (but it was fleeting no doubt).

Wow someone is triggered ^

[quote]“I believe we face a very real threat of autocracy in the candidacy of Donald Trump,”

Please! They said the same thing in 2016 and nothing happened.

People are getting sick of the fear-mongering.

I actually feel sorry for the senior writers and editors at WaPo. Bezos will be alright; he is a billionaire. I’m sure they will understand people have to stand on principles but there will likely be layoffs from plummeting sales.

Fuck you Donald J Trump.

r20 Absolutely! Appeasement is the way to go!

OP, please state your source. Where does the number 200,000 come from?

From a Semafor article published on the 25th (link below):

[quote]One person familiar with the figures told Semafor that the decision already seemed to be impacting subscriptions. In the 24 hours ending Friday afternoon, about 2,000 subscribers canceled their subscriptions, an unusually high number, an employee said. Another email that the Post sent out to subscribers on Friday also prompted a flurry of complaints from readers about the paper’s lack of an endorsement.

[quote]Another person who had seen the numbers downplayed them, saying the rate of cancellation Friday was “not statistically significant.”

I'd like to hear from that second source now.

The top story on the WaPo website this morning was "Some billionaires, CEOs hedge bets as Trump vows retribution." Bezos was mentioned seven times. This is just the start of an internal campaign against him. If he's as thin-skinned as the average billionaire, he'll end up selling the paper.

[quote]They said the same thing in 2016 and nothing happened.

Children in cages! Thousands of families separated, still hundreds to this day. Didn't stop or even slow immigration an iota. Nothing.

We walked away from the Paris Climate Accords, our last, best, hope for just slowing climate change down. But it was nothing.

We had Iran under our thumb, incapable of producing nuclear weapons, but Shitler unilaterally dismissed that carefully-negotiated treaty and re-ignited their plans to develop a nuclear weapon. Tragic because the Iranians gave us a chance and took a risk that we could eventually not just get along but become partners... and Trump didn't just walk away, he rekindled the Iranian hatred for the West, gave them every reason to cosy up to Putin, and made it more difficult to ever bring the Iranians to the table, ever again. But it was part of that nothing that Trump didn't get done.

Then along came the Chinese trade war that Trump tried to gin up, and all he accomplished was costing our farmers their long-term soy contracts. So we, the taxpayers, now pay farmers to [italic]not[/italic] grow anything — to the tune of hundreds of $billions per year, while farmers in South America (you know, the shithole countries) picked up those contracts and now have developed relationships with China. One less bargaining chip for us, one more for countries that are not our friends. Just more nothing!

Trump directed Robert Redfield, head of the NIH at the time, to withdraw our doctors charged with monitoring what they are doing in China with regard to medical labs, research, and bio-weapon development. Lo and behold a scant 2 years later, and China accidentally releases a virus that causes a worldwide pandemic. "Nothing, nothing, nothing!" says R22.

Speaking of R22 and his delusion, people actually got sick! And a thousand per day died under Trump's inept lack of leadership. From the outset, his worry wasn't the American people, it was Wall Street. He sat back and watched as the virus swept across the nation in wave after wave, and instead of doing the only thing we could to mitigate it, he then got MAGAts so riled up that they [italic]refused[/italic] to do the only thing we could to slow it down. But it was all nothing.

And then, when he lost, he brought Democracy to its knees. He turned American against American. He spread lies, hate, racism and bigotry, taking us back at least 50 years. But that wasn't enough, so he appointed SCOTUS judges who went back to the 1200s to find a judge (who sentenced women accused of witchcraft to death by burning at the stake) to support their rationale for denying women the right to control their own bodies. For the first time in American history, the Court took away a right that had been granted and upheld, repeatedly, for 50 years. "BUT IT WAS NOTHING!" says R22.

May God have nothing to say to R22.

[quote] What America needs are more financially healthy newspapers not less.

What America needs is more regional papers reporting local news, but hedge funds made sure that those go extinct.

R22- 2025 is different. He’ll have unchecked power because of Supreme Court decision. He has promised no future elections and Heritage Foundation is organized with a plan for his Presidency. No porn, no birth control, no abortion, no gay marriage, no board of education. It’s going to be very bad if he wins. Very bad.

R27: Redfield was not director of NIH.

R25 I literally provided a link to NPR. My source was the well-trusted news organization which I linked to.

I am serious.

What is wrong with you?

Are you autistic or something?

R26

Forbes good enough?

[quote]I actually feel sorry for the senior writers and editors at WaPo.

This. There will probably be layoffs of people who had nothing to do with this, the ones who do the day-to-day grunt work of getting the paper out.

Oh noes, R30! I got it wrong! Redfield was the Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, not the NIH! Please disregard everything I said.

R27:

Too well said . I’m listening to Gloomy Sunday, the Hungarian Suicude song — poised to jump out of the window if Drumpf wins,

R20 is right.

The Washington Post had a pro-Kamala endorsement ready to go. Bezos, who has famously promised to allow the paper to run without interference, stepped in and killed the editorial to appease tRump.

Bezo$ and tRump are the villains here.

If you want to make a principled point, hit each of them where it hurts. Subscribe to the Washington Post but pull ALL your support for Amazon (you can use them to find products and then order directly from the manufacturers’ links); And do everything in your power to defeat the tRump.

NYT and WaPo destroyed themselves - completely irrelevant and no one 30 and younger will ever support them.

I am so underwhelmed by American newspaper options.

Did the Washington Post ever apologize for falsely accusing that MAGA kid of harassing an older Native American man?

Bezos didn’t seem to have a problem with that.

200K is quite a large chunk of customers to lose.

wats paper?

What a prick-looking into Amazon alternatives-any suggests?

Use Amazon to search about the product and purchase either directly from the company or use Ebay.

I had to ask three times, but the Post did refund the unused portion of my subscription.

Bezos doesn't care whether WAPO makes money or not, he will just cut the salaries of the reporters, it is just a vanity project for him. Cancel your Prime Account, stop ordering from Amazon, that is what Bezos cares about. Oh that and Lauren's tits.

I have to say, Whole Foods had totally gone downhill. It used to be special, it was an experience. I lived in DC for 20 years and the Washington Post was a daily read for everybody, absolutely revered.

Jeff Bezos cares more about the possibility of making more money (how much does he need?) than he does about decency, truth or the public good.

Bezos’s attitude handling this is so bizarre but it makes sense if you know about autism (Bezos is certainly autistic, look at him).

Autistic people may struggle to understand other people exist. It is called Theory of Mind deficiency. Bezos may not process that his actions have caused a profound sense of distress and betrayal among the Post’s staff and subscribers. In his mind, he has made a pragmatic decision. What are these things you humans call “feelings”?

The best analogy I can make was another man who was also once the richest man in the world and who also was probably on the Spectrum:

J. Paul Getty and his refusal to pay his grandson’s ransom.

Same eyes.

Getty told himself his grandson orchestrated his own kidnapping as an excuse not to pay.

Agree that maybe one has to wonder is "buy the liberal leaning newspaper, then stir up controversy to tank it, to justify killing it" the actual plan

[quote]Cancel your Prime Account, stop ordering from Amazon, that is what Bezos cares about.

He doesn't care about Amazon Prime either. Amazon's money comes primarily from its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services, which accounts for about 3/4 of Amazon's profits.

r32 Forbes just quotes NPR so ..

Apparently it’s now up to 300k cancellations.

This was a calculated move by Bezos, not a principled one.

If WaPo had stated at the beginning of the campaigning that it wouldn’t endorse, we wouldn’t have second guessed it.

What we’re seeing now is how newspapers will really act under a fascist— terrified to challenge him.

Except to what does it benefit Bezos is Trump loses. Harris is going to win. She can easily appoint people in her administration who can go after Amazon for antitrust practices or labor violation. She can make goddamn Bernie Sanders commerce secretary.

To that point, like Musk, there is the blindness to how his mercurial, idiosyncratic actions affect the people even a cold hearted capitalist should be sympathetic too, his shareholders. Theory of mind deficiency.

I’m hearing mixed opinions of an Amazon boycott and have already found other sources for some of the products I get from them. What do folks on DL think of boycotting Amazon?

Temu sells the same things as Amazon but much cheaper.

[quote]go after Amazon for antitrust practices or labor violation

What's interesting is that Bozo didn't endorse DonOld in order to get out from under the investigations underway; of course, we all know that if Shitler wins (((shudder))), Lina Kahn is gone and the prosecutions at the FTC are all withdrawn. Bozo would be very appreciative, thank you. By the same token, he didn't want to totally alienate Kamala either, because she could instruct the FTC to be more aggressive, which worries Bozo because Amazon is ripe for a takedown on multiple fronts based on their policies and practices.

Muscular Pussy is the name of my new punk band! 🤘🤘🤘

Hearing of more cancellations 250,000 to 300,000. I’m also considering ending Amazon Prime.

Biden/Harris promised to make the trillionaires pay their fair share of taxes. I hope if Kamala wins she'll carry that torch. Notice how most of them are Trumpers?

The quality of the customer relations at Amazon continues to be worse and worse. I'm done with it. I may order things from them if I can't find it anywhere else, but I'm getting rid of Prime

Don’t you guys get it??? Jeff Bezos has since said he didn’t endorse because he needs Trump in order to further Blue Origin-SO HE CAN SAVE THE HUMAN RACE. It all makes sense.