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Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement. (text.npr.org)

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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.

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[-] cabbage@piefed.social 157 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To anyone unsubscribing: Remember to subscribe somewhere else instead. If not you're just helping Bezos achieve his goal of the death of journalism.

@ProPublica@newsie.social is one good alternative.

As others have said, if you want to hurt Bezos, target Amazon.

[-] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

This was the straw that finally got my wife to agree to let me cancel prime. I wanted to as soon as add were added to video. Sadly it auto renewed on the 10th of Oct :(

[-] Justinahole@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

This exact thing happened to me. I cancelled anyway and they refunded most of the subscription fee. Just do it. Wish i could have told them why I was cancelling.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago

404 media seems nice

[-] Toofpic@feddit.dk 6 points 2 years ago

The link's not working

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 15 points 2 years ago

The link is for a Mastodon account:

https://newsie.social/@ProPublica

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 14 points 2 years ago

And here's their site: https://www.propublica.org/

Some reasons I think they're neat:

They broke the Justice Thomas corruption scandal
Generally high level investigative journalism
They're free and donation based, not subscription based
No bullshit, just journalism
They take an active interest in the Fediverse - it seems they're willing to meet me where I am.

[-] shplane@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

My favorite news source is Democracy Now

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago

Al Jazeera for me, bby

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Most of the web runs on AWS good luck avoiding Amazon

[-] unphazed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Just about a third anyhow. Remember the great fiasco where an engineer was turning off one server and mistakenly turned them alll off and Facebbok etc was down for 6 hours? Like a goddamn dream... a wonderful place.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

Like setting fire to the Amazon and stuff?

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 2 points 2 years ago

As a species we're clearly doing our very best

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