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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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[-] JRepin@lemmy.ml 217 points 2 years ago

It would hurt this sociopath Bezos a lot more if people also canceled Amazon services en mass

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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

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[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 107 points 2 years ago

WaPo - "Democracy dies in darkness"

Bezos - "I can deliver darkness to everyone in America in 2 days or less"

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[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 94 points 2 years ago

I have a funny feeling Jeff doesn't own the paper for the money.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think Elon mismanaged Twitter tremendously but a very clear "this is my toy and I'll break it if i want" message was sent and a very dangerous message it was. Gives me the same vibe. Bezos doesn't need to own it but he does and he'll do what he pleases.

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[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 86 points 2 years ago

Something darkly funny to me is all the people who work there whose job it is to grow subscribers seeing their last three years of hard work flushed down the drain on the whims of the owner.

I'd love to sit in on performance reviews for Q4's end.

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[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 2 years ago

Finally got around to canceling my Prime membership. I've been relying on Amazon to get all the shit I can't buy in person, but I'll figure out some other way to get those.

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[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 67 points 2 years ago

The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

200,000 so far

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[-] Dot@feddit.org 55 points 2 years ago

Holy shit, that number is huge, in terms of their paid subscribers.

[-] 314xel@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

Three of the top 10 viewed stories on the Post’s website Sunday were articles written by Post staffers outraged by Bezos’ decision. The top one was humor columnist Alexandra Petri’s piece, headlined, “It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president.”

[-] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

Bezos is scared of Trump.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago

This is the reason. In our fucked up country, Trump, a rapist convicted felon, has a legitimate chance of winning the presidency.

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[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

AMAZON. FLEE AMAZON!!!

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

What do you predict Turnout being this year? 2020 was 65.9% of the VEP(Voting Eligable Population). The lowest in the internet era was 2012 at 58%. Average is 2004 and 2016 at 60.1 and 59.3 each, 2008 was the previous high at 61.1

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

That would be an interesting pool to join in.

It's a million Venn diagrams of a million different problems. It's hard to even guess what ones would be more significant.

You've got his impending jail time if he doesn't make it in. That's likely going to activate a bunch. You've got the incels and misogynists. I'd say you'd have a pretty decent percent of the most ardent Gaza supporters, and certainly some of them will go third party, But knowing that if Trump makes it in he will absolutely throw as much support as possible to netanyahu... They're in an absolutely miserable situation but I don't know that they would be in a hurry to make it worse.

Of course on the other side you've got Cheeto Jesus saying he's going to be dictator on day one, He's going to prosecute an imprison other people he's threatened donors. He's patronized Hitler's and Hitler's staff. He's pretty much insulted and activated everybody on the other side to be scared to fucking death that he's going to make it in. I have to think that all counts to activate us. I have to think that all the rambling and incoherent speech he's giving is feeling to activate them at least a little bit on the other side.

But the poles, their poles. I was behind a fuck nut yesterday with a Trump 2024 make liberals cry again bumper sticker. I've never wanted to get out of my car and scratch wahhhh snowflake on some dick heads tailgate so much

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Now triple it and do the same to Amazon.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

I'm glad this happens in a world where newspapers endorse candidates, but I also don't get why newspapers are allowed to endorse candidates in the first place. I guess that is the least of our concerns when you look at media bias, but still....

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

wow, that is significant.

Good to hear

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Wow. A huge number.

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