Democracy Dies in Darkness

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cancelling WaPo won’t hurt Bezos. I’m not cancelling.

+1. The only person you're hurting is your small business person carrier. Hope you feel good about that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the subscription cancellations. How does it benefit the left to shut down the Washington Post?

Agree. LA Times and Washington Post are the only two papers I read daily. It would be shooting myself in the foot to cause them to fail by withholding the revenue needed to keep their journalists and editors working. It was the owners who made the decision not to endorse Kamala and neither of them will be hurt by the boycott.

Yeah, but it’s clear that the owner has bent the knee to the orange man. Who knows what other positions and reporting he has or will kibosh. The owner is no independent and he’s interfering in the paper’s operations- as his his right as owner.

But they can’t be viewed as independent any longer. They are compromised.

They haven’t been viewed as independent for a very, very long time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cancelling WaPo won’t hurt Bezos. I’m not cancelling.

+1. The only person you're hurting is your small business person carrier. Hope you feel good about that.

Most people have online subscriptions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What if they had endorsed Trump? You all would have done the same thing.

by doing this Bezos did endorse Trump.

Correct. And the LA Times can fabricate other excuses, too, but no one is fooled.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the subscription cancellations. How does it benefit the left to shut down the Washington Post?

Agree. LA Times and Washington Post are the only two papers I read daily. It would be shooting myself in the foot to cause them to fail by withholding the revenue needed to keep their journalists and editors working. It was the owners who made the decision not to endorse Kamala and neither of them will be hurt by the boycott.

Yeah, but it’s clear that the owner has bent the knee to the orange man. Who knows what other positions and reporting he has or will kibosh. The owner is no independent and he’s interfering in the paper’s operations- as his his right as owner.

But they can’t be viewed as independent any longer. They are compromised.

They haven’t been viewed as independent for a very, very long time.

Yeah, but the thumb is now clearly on the scale. It’s clear he’s directly manipulating things, and that can’t help but bleed into the reporting. Reporters and editors will self-censor. Stories will be softened or killed outright.

There are obviously many many people who support Trump. Now they have another outlet for their “news”.

[Anonymous]

Our carrier keeps throwing the paper under the car. We were thinking of digital only anyway.

[Anonymous]

If the reporters had any integrity, they’d resign.

If they stay, they’ve made their choice, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the reporters had any integrity, they’d resign.

If they stay, they’ve made their choice, too.

Most don't earn enough to quit without another job lined up. I can't fault them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the subscription cancellations. How does it benefit the left to shut down the Washington Post?

Agree. LA Times and Washington Post are the only two papers I read daily. It would be shooting myself in the foot to cause them to fail by withholding the revenue needed to keep their journalists and editors working. It was the owners who made the decision not to endorse Kamala and neither of them will be hurt by the boycott.

Yeah, but it’s clear that the owner has bent the knee to the orange man. Who knows what other positions and reporting he has or will kibosh. The owner is no independent and he’s interfering in the paper’s operations- as his his right as owner.

But they can’t be viewed as independent any longer. They are compromised.

When I feel that the majority of news articles are compromised, I will cancel. I’ve done that with other media.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the reporters had any integrity, they’d resign.

If they stay, they’ve made their choice, too.

I feel like the only person who would say that is someone who wants to destroy decent journalism on this country. Why don’t all the journalists quit, simc all the papers are basically owned by a$$holes? That would show them!

I agree with PP that’s it’s probably more meaningful to cut your Amazon subscription if you are able. (I know we are all a little dependent now.). Bezos doesn’t make money from WaPo—it’s a vanity project, and people cutting subscriptions won’t bother him at all. He’ll just do another round of layoffs.

In some ways, this is the best result. If WaPo endorsed Harris, everyone would shrug and it would change zero minds. By bezps overplaying his hand, this is getting a lot of attention—the editorial board is starngkng strong and looks good, and everyone is reminded what is at stake—namely, the risk of electing a president that demands loyalty and punishes those who criticize him, with a billionaire class that does his bidding. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, America.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the subscription cancellations. How does it benefit the left to shut down the Washington Post?

Agree. LA Times and Washington Post are the only two papers I read daily. It would be shooting myself in the foot to cause them to fail by withholding the revenue needed to keep their journalists and editors working. It was the owners who made the decision not to endorse Kamala and neither of them will be hurt by the boycott.

Cancel your Amazon Prime subscription and stop buying from Amazon.

That’s…not a newspaper.

You're right, Amazon is not a newspaper. As you may have heard, Jeff Bezos owns both Amazon and the Washington Post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If the reporters had any integrity, they’d resign.

If they stay, they’ve made their choice, too.

I feel like the only person who would say that is someone who wants to destroy decent journalism on this country. Why don’t all the journalists quit, simc all the papers are basically owned by a$$holes? That would show them!

I agree with PP that’s it’s probably more meaningful to cut your Amazon subscription if you are able. (I know we are all a little dependent now.). Bezos doesn’t make money from WaPo—it’s a vanity project, and people cutting subscriptions won’t bother him at all. He’ll just do another round of layoffs.

In some ways, this is the best result. If WaPo endorsed Harris, everyone would shrug and it would change zero minds. By bezps overplaying his hand, this is getting a lot of attention—the editorial board is starngkng strong and looks good, and everyone is reminded what is at stake—namely, the risk of electing a president that demands loyalty and punishes those who criticize him, with a billionaire class that does his bidding. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, America.

I can only assume you’re being willfully obtuse.

Of course newspapers are owned by rich egomaniacs. Most businesses are.

He is directly interfering with the newspaper’s content. He overriding editorial decisions. It’s out in the open. The Post had a great, historic run, but it’s done. Those who stay will be complicit.

[Anonymous]

You should all be more concerned about the constant suppresion of speech here than one editorial at Bezos' hobby.

You are children if you don't see this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should all be more concerned about the constant suppresion of speech here than one editorial at Bezos' hobby.

You are children if you don't see this.

lolololol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did. And while I'm not quite ready to cancel Amazon Prime, I did go to my subscriptions in prime and canceled all the extras. Next, definitely unplugging the Alexas throughout the house.

Same PP.
Next, for consistency, I finally created an account on a post-X website, and tried to find there all the handles I followed on X.
To close out my Saturday, instead of placing a grocery order on Amazon Fresh, I did a huge Trader Joe's run.