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.
“We endorse Democrats! REJOICE!!!”
“We want to stay neutral! BURN THEM ALIVE!”
Can’t make this shit up…
WaPo editors wanted to endorse Harris.
Bezos, who is not an editor, forced them to remain neutral.
That’s a problem. People don’t subscribe to WaPo because they want to read Bezos’s thoughts.
Editors wish to use their paper to endorse a candidate, the owner of the paper does not want them to do that so their endorsement is not written. What’s the issue here?
A good newspaper has an independent editors.