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> Over the last year the Post has been involved in almost monthly car wrecks

I mean, unless the subscription number is way down or revenue has dropped significantly (which the article does not seem to mention), none of this matters, which is exactly what Bezos wants.



So far each big, unpopular decision by Bezos has led to significant cancellations of paid subscriptions. Since it's happened more than once I don't think it's safe to assume the remaining subscribers are happy either.

Bezos cancels planned endorsement of Harris: 300,000 paid subscribers cancel in period up to election. (400,000 new paid subscribers over the period, but they offered significant promotional discounts)

Bezos tweets change to opinion policy: 75,000 paid subscribers cancel within four days

With in the order of 2.5 million paid subscribers before all this started that's significant losses.

Edit: Source is https://www.npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312819/washington-post...


It’s surprising to me that in America newspapers are expected to publicly endorse a candidate. Not even trying to pretend to be neutral.




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