Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos's changes to the opinion pages have led subscribers to cancel in droves. It's the third wave of mass cancellations at the Post in just a few months.
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Please someone responsible buy WAPO from this tool & restore it to what it once was a competent & Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper that reported truth regardless of political party but in the interest of informing the read just what in hell was going on
He's so wealthy he doesn't care if WP tanks or not. It's just his propaganda machine. He might still care about Amazon though he has enough wealth that his great great great great grandkids would have more money than most of city/towns income combined.
first step in a dictatorship is to censor the media like he’s trying to do. It happened it Germany in the 1930s and now it’s happening here. Fuck him and fuck muskler
It's not about readers. It's about controlling the headlines that are out there since every social media platform essentially encourages headlines exclusively
True true. But he still needs circulation, unless he wants to wholly fund it now. Also, loss of major cred earned over decades that will be extremely difficult to gain back either way.
He doesn’t care. Owning the post isn’t about money. It’s about the minds of the populace. Stop shopping Amazon, Whole Foods, and move your apps off AWS.
I don’t even give WAPO the false security benefit associated with a click. The only subscribers remaining will ultimately be the true believers; then WAPO is just another newsletter for like minded idiots.
I held on for the first couple of waves because wapo often breaks important news, but this is the last straw. Opinion pages are pretty lame overall but it gives you some insight into what is being gate-kept in the straight news pages.
My wife and I canceled ours this time. And we're slowly moving away from Amazon too, buying directly from the source or even brick and mortar stores instead.
I wonder if it matters to him? If buying the WaPo was to manage the information and control the narrative, or if choking off a (formerly) reputable news source is also an acceptable outcome for him?
#fuckoffbezos another #trump #assclown
Get a spine, support the democracy that helped you get where you are. It's a simple ask dude - stand the fuck up. Clearly your ex - wife is shit ton cooler than your tacky ass.
I cancelled. I wasn’t as bothered by his non endorsement as most readers because I know endorsements make no difference and never have. But having a corporate opinion policy is a horse of a different color. No thanks.
We all need to speak with our wallets. It is the only thing rich people understand. No money, maybe they change. Trump will find this out in a month when the economy crashes and his tariffs don’t cash out because nobody is buying anything.
He's obscenely wealthy but he doesn't have all the money that he needs. They never do.
But besides that he's into the space race thing with the other a****** billionaires...
it's a very expensive game.
Untrue, he will get richer off your data. He will have more influence because of your data. Theres more to currency than just money.
Cancelling Amazon is not only an act of resistance, but will help dismantle capitalistic focus for future generations. Please don’t discourage people from doing this
Maybe I misunderstood the point of your post. Maybe it was ambivalence, and maybe I meant that instead of saying it wouldn’t help anything maybe we should encourage people that they still have some power here
If he was content with what he already has he wouldn’t be kissing up to the admin. He has the billionaire “always need more” disorder, so any change in his profits is going to hurt.
I canceled my subscription after they pulled the endorsement of Harris. To see Bezos, like many of the other CEOs, kowtow to Trump is sadly not shocking or surprising but is another example of their lack of integrity, their cowardice and the fact they only care about is making a buck.
I was notified several weeks ago that my subscription to the Post would be up in March, and I have been trying to decide whether to pay $150 to renew it. Jeff Bezos has just made that decision for me.
MSM let that be a lesson to you. Screw with the truth, sane wash what Trump is doing, normalize criminal acts, spread propaganda and we are through with you!
But for my support of its great writers and this being my hometown paper, I would cancel WAPO now too. Totally understand the national response from former subscribers. On the cusp!
Mr Bezos can't have it both ways. The WaPo's non-endorsement just 11 days before the election was disingenuous. From "Democracy Dies in Darkness" revamped to "Riveting storytelling for all of America,” and now his "support" of "personal liberties and free markets" reeks of duplicity.
Just because you have a billion dollars, or a trillion, it does not mean you're going to be the best at everything.. those who think that are Nazis and should be fought to the ends of the earth, and not granted tax dollar funded contracts..
I now have canceled my WAPO subscription. While I really objected to Bezos’s new editorial policy and I hate Trump, I must admit I also have worried that the press opened the door to Trump 2.0 by not being tougher on Biden earlier - for example, not being more skeptical about his border policies.
The millisecond he messes with actual news content, I’m out. Editorials are biased by their very definition anyway. In the meantime, there are some seriously good journalists at WAPO doing great work.
Hopefully the volume of cancellations will drive him to sell the publication to a owner who who embodies the actual tenets of the free press once again. And, that he loses millions in the process for being an arrogant morbidly wealthy asshat.
You can still shop there. Just look up the item there, and then buy it from the company directly. So Amazon doesn't profit off it. You gotta pay shipping though but i rather that over supporting Amazon and not doing a complete boycott and screwing up business that sell on there.
Beware. I cancelled my subscription and they STILL attempted to renew it. They tried my backup card on my account. Had I not been sent a fraud alert I wouldn't have known until I checked my statement.
If you have an AWS account they will bill you forever every month after you've ended all services for 10 cents. No clue why but I had to tell my bank I didn't process that when I noticed and to block all future AWS based payments
Did anyone ask bezos' wife about her fashion choices and why she was exposing her bra at the inauguration? Who f*cking cares? Hey but it's an important question for Zelinsky at a press conference
That’s a good question. Elon is clearly dragging down the value of every company he has that doesn’t rely on government contracts.
Why haven’t they dumped him already?!?
And we need weeks or months of Amazon boycotts, plus cancel X, Instagram, stay away from big box stores and chain fast food. Only when the billionaires suffer will things change.
I think it’s beyond the point where anyone should ever go back to using these platforms/services at all. Boycott implies going back at some point. A zebra will not change their stripes. Stay away and protect yourself
It truly has become unreadable, not for the work from great journalists, but from the decisions of management deciding HOW we get information from them and is it reliable.
Ya'll, BEZOS doesn't care about your statement or your feelings. He is only concerned with his ability to push his message to as many people as possible.
Good! Who wants to listen to a dumbass article defending the name calling, lying, sex abusing, FELON WITH THE ORANGE MELON. Not anyone I know. Hope the paper goes under. I'll be celebratinh.
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He doesn't care about journalism.
Just like Elmo wants to kill the bird app…
And whoever the new owner is at MSNBC, same…
Taking down media one at a time.
#WeNeedtruthfulMedia
These billionaires are so out of touch.
WaPo is now just a tool for him to push messaging he likes and favors his businesses
Time to move on, look to other sources for truth and information, as WaPo can no longer be trusted
Get a spine, support the democracy that helped you get where you are. It's a simple ask dude - stand the fuck up. Clearly your ex - wife is shit ton cooler than your tacky ass.
And that's the really frustrating part.
Thank you all for pointing that out.
Glad to know that my little actions in not supporting Bezos and others could mean something.
But besides that he's into the space race thing with the other a****** billionaires...
it's a very expensive game.
Cancelling Amazon is not only an act of resistance, but will help dismantle capitalistic focus for future generations. Please don’t discourage people from doing this
Wonder what the third round will be?
Wake Up, America!!
#EatTheRich
If he thinks he can draw a larger readership for > $,
or is content with WP as a vanity project -his call.
Refunds would be in order if he were of the ethical sort.
You don't realize the damage Bezos and we as a society have done until you need to buy anything online and realize the only retailer left is Amazon
trump, musk, bezos, zuckerberg are all murdering democracy.
You can get them for free
Why haven’t they dumped him already?!?
Don't be part of the fascist kowtowing!
(I hope the good reporters & editors find work at ProPublica, Philly Inquirer or other reputable, non-oligarch, outlets.)