Democracy Dies in Darkness

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In light of the election results, this thread seems a little dumb now, eh? I mean, :If only the Wa Po endorsed Harris, she would have won." Right?

Exactly. Just goes to show how ridiculous liberals have become. They spent the last few months yelling at anyone who gave them information they did not like. Yelling at pollsters. Yelling at newspaper editorial boards. Yelling at the world. Instead of actually engaging the public.

Folks need to stop throwing tantrums because other people do not agree with them and grow up.

They won't learn. At the root of all f this is ego and stubburness. They refuse to concede on anything. So, instead, they lose. LOL.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In light of the election results, this thread seems a little dumb now, eh? I mean, :If only the Wa Po endorsed Harris, she would have won." Right?

Exactly. Just goes to show how ridiculous liberals have become. They spent the last few months yelling at anyone who gave them information they did not like. Yelling at pollsters. Yelling at newspaper editorial boards. Yelling at the world. Instead of actually engaging the public.

Folks need to stop throwing tantrums because other people do not agree with them and grow up.

You morons voted to end Democray add Catholic Church in public schools will be the norm. Project 2025 installed is horrible but you think you will be ok with banned vaccines and no jobs or food. Genius

We'll be fine but you may expire sooner than you should from high blood pressure. Try to relax.

[Anonymous]

Readership will fall off a cliff when this happens -- there's no way I am paying for a subscription:

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Anonymous wrote:Readership will fall off a cliff when this happens -- there's no way I am paying for a subscription:

Dear Reader,

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I think they’d prefer paying customers.

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Anonymous wrote:Readership will fall off a cliff when this happens -- there's no way I am paying for a subscription:

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I think they’d prefer paying customers.

Sure, but they also make money off ad revenue based on how many people visit their site and click different articles. Doesn't matter to me, I pay for the NYT and get the WSJ through my agency, so that's enough news for me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Readership will fall off a cliff when this happens -- there's no way I am paying for a subscription:

Dear Reader,

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I think they’d prefer paying customers.

Sure, but they also make money off ad revenue based on how many people visit their site and click different articles. Doesn't matter to me, I pay for the NYT and get the WSJ through my agency, so that's enough news for me.

Ad revenue is a diminishing revenue stream. It is all about paid subscriber base now.

[Anonymous]

I'm letting my free Federal employee subscription expire at the end of the month. I mostly used the post to get a liberal perspective on news and events, because I surround myself with other conservatives.

You can be sure the Post will let you know how any news issue will impact women, minorities, the Transgendered, native Americans, and illegal immigrants. They have to work those groups in to every new story.

I remember there being a few days where anti-Tump or anti-MAGA news articles took all five slots for the top five articles most read. It was clear that the Post really, really hates Donald Trump and all conservatives.

There are so few quality investigative reports published by the Post anymore. If all I read was the Post, democracy would be dead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm letting my free Federal employee subscription expire at the end of the month. I mostly used the post to get a liberal perspective on news and events, because I surround myself with other conservatives.

You can be sure the Post will let you know how any news issue will impact women, minorities, the Transgendered, native Americans, and illegal immigrants. They have to work those groups in to every new story.

I remember there being a few days where anti-Tump or anti-MAGA news articles took all five slots for the top five articles most read. It was clear that the Post really, really hates Donald Trump and all conservatives.

There are so few quality investigative reports published by the Post anymore. If all I read was the Post, democracy would be dead.

I’ve seen the Post referred to as the print versions of MSNBC and I think that is accurate.

I personally don’t have a problem with having all of the reporters being extremely liberal. The problem comes from the fact that they no longer have editorial controls so now every article is infected with the reporters own bias and ideology. The outcome to me is a distinct lack of professionalism.

If I was Bezos, I would have been carefully taking note of the reporters that complained the loudest about the non-endorsement decision and I would start quietly letting them go.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can finally starts subscribing to WaPo. Newspaper should not endorse any party. By endorsing one party, it inevitably risks becoming that party’s propaganda machine.

Exactly. We want news, not confirmation of our political biases, whatever they may be. Give us facts and we can form our own opinions, we don't need annointed opinion writers to tell us how we should interpret the news like we're in second grade. That's true whether you lean left or right.

Except very few consumers of news products feel that way. You are a tiny, tiny, insignificant minority.

Most viewers/readers want affirmation, not information. They want something that tells them their own biases are right.

This is the sad truth, at least for the low-information voters. Those low-information voters are clearly those who subscribed to the old Post, and who listen to NPR.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

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How can this journalist have such a massive ego?

[Anonymous]

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How can this journalist have such a massive ego?

yeah, this. If Bezos ever wanted to sell, the demand is there, and for a high price tag too. Swisher rounding up formal interest changes nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Readership will fall off a cliff when this happens -- there's no way I am paying for a subscription:

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I think they’d prefer paying customers.

That's naive.

Bezos is courting Trump and offering something special to fed employees (who are now public enemy #1) is not sending the right impression.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Readership will fall off a cliff when this happens -- there's no way I am paying for a subscription:

Dear Reader,

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I think they’d prefer paying customers.

That's naive.

Bezos is courting Trump and offering something special to fed employees (who are now public enemy #1) is not sending the right impression.

Exhibit A: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/20/government-shutdown-bill-house-trump-musk/

Showing what bezos really thinks of feds.

[Anonymous]

We're home subscribers and cancelling our subscription when renewal comes up. The only thing we are reading the post for now is the color daily comics, the local news coverage is awful..