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How can any business that relies on subscription not know how many they have now vs a week ago?

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Why would any Wapo exec reveal that to the public? How would random partisan reporters learn of the number? You guys are naive as hell. The 200k is obvious bullcrap. [/quote]

Nope, WaPo has confirmed it and now it’s up to 250k.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/29/washington-post-cancellations-number/
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And you know what the result will be from all the LWNJs cancelling their subscriptions? WaPo will likely have to terminate many of their journalists and other employees that keep the paper up and running.

[url]https://slate.com/business/2024/10/washington-post-endorsement-election-cancel-jeff-bezos.html[/url]

[i]When you cancel your subscription to the Post, you don’t punish Jeff Bezos. You punish the journalists who write such stories, including, ironically, the journalists who wrote and prepared to publish the very endorsement you’re so angry about. As one Post staffer told me, “The journalists who produce the Washington Post had no role in this decision, and yet they’re the only people who will be really hurt if you cancel your subscription.”

And if those journalists lose their jobs, what happens to them? The most clueless subscription-cancelers of all maintain that they’ll just get jobs elsewhere. Apparently there are still people out there who don’t know that the business model for journalism is currently in free fall, with only brand-name legacy organizations, like the Post and the New York Times, able to hold on by their fingernails while still providing in-depth reporting. Last year alone, 131 local newspapers shuttered, a loss that has fostered the increasing polarization of their communities. Even if you don’t feel sorry for middle-class people losing their jobs, this is a massive civic injury. Contributing to the death of journalism will not hurt Jeff Bezos; it will just make the United States a dumber, more dangerous place.[/i]

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