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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Self-serving twaddle. Bezos simply didn't want to get on Trump's bad side and tried to split the baby.

We, as consumers of news, get what we tolerate, especially in this era of corporate media. I cancelled, after having read the paper all my life. [/quote]

Cancellation is counterproductive.

Unless, of course, you want Fox News/CNN style "journalism" to capture a larger market share. Talk about "twaddle".

WaPo is wildly imperfect. It's also among the very best daily reporting available.

I loathe Trump and I will absolutely, positively continue to subscribe to the Post. [/quote]

WaPo does have good reporting and has had critical coverage of Democrats as well as Republicans.  But this was clearly a major miscalculation by Bezos, with tremendously bad optics.   They should have made that decision and made it clear early in the cycle, not days before the election.  Also, it does seem like WaPo has not been entirely balanced - they went overboard regarding Biden's lousy debate performance while pulling their punches on Trump's consistently bizarre rally performances and that is also not reasonable or defensible.  I stand by my assessment that if the Washington Post wants to lead the way, it needs to do better and this last-minute non-endorsement bomb was not the way to do that. And, it will have to work extra hard to regain those lost subscribers.  Losing almost 10% of your subscribers in a matter of days is a major vote of no-confidence and should be a wake-up call for Bezos to not screw around like that.  [/quote]

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