Get fucked, Bezos.
It would hurt this sociopath Bezos a lot more if people also canceled Amazon services en mass
And go where, Azure? GCP? They’re still run by the same club.
The Post could lose all its subscribers and Bezos could still easily cover costs. He isn’t in the newspaper business for the money. He bought it for exactly moments like these. 8% is how much he just paid to hedge his bets
No point covering costs if no one is reading.
Yeah I was being hyperbolic for effect, but the point is that he owns the WaPo so that he can use it for his own personal social and political gain, not to make money off of it. I doubt the WaPo readership will substantially drop from this. And I have many questions about the people who still read his rag
I can’t believe they have this many subs tbh
This is a huge number too. Apparently the NYT leadership was crowing about gaining 4000 subscriptions over a few months recently.
If gaining 4000 is considered a lot in the industry, losing 200,000 and growing is a roaring statement of disapproval.
As of 2023 they had like 2.5 million subscribers, so it’s like almost 10% That’s pretty huge.
Serious question, but what stops the editors and writers who feel differently from just telling him no and printing what they want?
I understand he owns them and could fire them, but I think that would be more telling and a much bigger story internationally if he just fired or shut down WaPo for not doing his bidding rather than this subscriber loss being what we see. Journalists used to do real reporting and expose huge things (some still do), so if they actually feel this way about the candidate then they should’ve just printed what they wanted anyway.
Not much considering that’s what the entire editorial staff did anyway.
But they don’t get to control the headline at the top of the front page.
As I’m not in journalism, why couldn’t the most senior editor control the top headline and push out the views of the also believe the same?
I’m sure he could. But I’m guessing he’s a corporate bootlicker.
Who tf was subscribed to that rag and was somehow not aware it was Bezos’ propaganda factory? Or were they aware of it and just now decided to draw the line?
The paradox: if, instead, 200,000 newcomers were to subscribe, the WaPo might be economically viable and then it could fire its owner.
The WaPo is currently losing tens of millions of USD a year. That is not so much its fault as our fault. We are the ones who prefer to pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime than for quality journalism.
Most old media are loss-makers. The owners are fine with that because owning a newspaper allows you to influence public perceptions.
That’s not how it works
Why would I pay for news controlled by a billionaire? My tax money already goes towards CBC who are… probably better than WaPo.
Well sure, if you’re Canadian then none of this is your problem.
