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flounder233's avatar

This is a great piece, and yet I have to admit I cancelled my WaPo subscription yesterday and I still think it was the right choice. If Bezos wants to start putting his whole ass on the scale rather than just his thumb, then what the hell difference does my $50 a year make to the fate of the very good unionized journalists?

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QOTM31's avatar

“Canceling your subscription is an understandable impulse, but not a helpful one.”

As a newspaper subscriber I have two options for expressing my exceptional displeasure about these non-endorsement decisions: writing a letter to the editor, which will never be read or acknowledged, and canceling my subscription. I canceled my NYT subscription after their grotesque treatment of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 cycle, and I don’t regret it; they learned nothing. Yesterday I canceled my Washington Post subscription. Billionaires understand exactly one language: money. Bezos decided to obey Trump in advance because he’s worried about retaliation from President Trump Part 2, so he forced a major US newspaper of record to scuttle its Harris endorsement. Because of money. So you bet I canceled my subscription, and I’m not sorry. I will subscribe to a couple of other large newspapers in addition to my local metro. I subscribe to 45 Substacks, the majority of them paid. I have a journalism degree, I have loved writing and newspapers since I was a child. But hell if I will continue to financially reward a billionaire for compromising one of the most significant newspapers in US history by silencing its voice at a pivotal moment, and compromising the integrity of the paper - why should anyone believe their coverage now?

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