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The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

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.

A corporate spokesperson declined to comment, citing The Washington Post Co.'s status as a privately held company.

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[-] JRepin@lemmy.ml 68 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

His real money comes from Amazon Web Services, and that's really hard to divest from, even if its customers (businesses rather than individuals) wanted to.

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Yep. AWS is 2/3rds of the business. It's GOLIATH, and it's completely off the radar for most people while being completely ubiquitous. AWS is the real threat.

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

It's also completely unthreatened by public boycott. People who make the choice to continue using AWS do so because of vendor lock-in, and they either can't leave or are in a position where they agree with daddy bezos because they have money

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

"Democracy dies in darkness!"

(paywall)

[-] whygohomie@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Alexa, turn off the lights.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

"I'm sorry, I cannot connect to Light at the End of the Tunnel".

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

Unsurprising. Selling to Bezos was obviously a future trainwreck waiting to happen.

[-] dragonfucker 13 points 2 years ago

Terrible business decision. Jeff doesn't seem qualified to run a newspaper.

[-] gressen@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

He doesn't run it, he just owns it.

[-] Strykker@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

The moment he made a decision for the paper he stepped out from just owning into the realm of running it.

[-] gressen@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago

Sure, but it's not like he runs the company, he just made a singular shitty decision.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Probably not the last one

[-] figjam@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago

Why are you stanning for bezos?

[-] dragonfucker 1 points 2 years ago

Good. He shouldn't be making any business decisions for a newspaper.

[-] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago

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