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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]R.I.P. WaPo.  Was going to subscribe now that they were going to focus on factual news instead of far leftist rag material, but they abandoned that idea.  Down the tubes WaPo continues to go. [/quote]

They abandoned the idea of hiring a guy who paid someone to use a phony accent to find out which British celebrities had reserved Maybachs in advance -- not exactly hard-hitting "factual news." [/quote]

Blah blah blah.  Meanwhile WaPo readership and subscription numbers are tanking.  Keep doublign down on your stupid news.  The public isn't dumb and doesn't want to read partisan and biased hack news from sources like WaPo.  [/quote]

In reality, their subscription numbers dropped off after 2020 from a huge and probably artificial bump before then — they got large numbers of new readers during the Trump administration when people were subscribing as, like, a #resistance move, and then those readers drifted away later, when the Biden administration began or when their cheap initial subscriptions were due to renew at a higher price. They went from 1.5 million subscribers in late 2017 to over 3 million in July 2020, and then started losing subscribers again, back to 2 million now (https://www.axios.com/2020/11/24/washington-post-new-york-times-subscriptions).

Readership dropped, too, but the Post was pretty thirsty about chasing first Facebook traffic and then Google traffic, neither of which send anywhere near as many clicks to news sites now as they did before.

You can try to argue that it's because of partisan bias, but I think it's more likely because they made bad or short-sighted strategic decisions. The Times made different decisions and went out to acquire a ton of subscribers, and now the results speak for themselves.[/quote]

People dumped WaPo after their absolute DISASTER of a story they ran about the Catholic School boy who got confronted by the obnoxious black Islam group and the Native American man.   They ran with the story with zero fact checking because it fit their narrative of white male bad.  Ooops, too bad that once all of the info and facts were released everyone learned it was fake news and the catholic school kids were being antagonized.

WaPo lost huuuuge amounts of credibility after that.  It made it abundantly clear how biased they are and that leftists had run amok at WaPo who could jam through stories with zero fact checking.  Trash newspaper got what it deserved. [/quote]

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