The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Washington Post Loses 250,000 Subscribers In 5 Days

**Posted by paterson1** November 1, 2024 5:30 pm

This may be borderline, and RA take it off if you want. However it is primarily media oriented and a very interesting piece from CBC's Andrew Chang. All about the Washington Post losing 10% of it's subscribers last week when they decided not to endorse any presidential candidate. Lots of great clips from other media and their reaction when the paper announced no endorsement. It also shows the first rather awkward and comical opinion piece endorsing Abe Lincoln. The segment is over 11 minutes long. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6553116

**Posted by RadioActive** **Online!** November 1, 2024 5:41 pm

This is actually a fascinating story that has a lot of raised eyebrows. It's about Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, who bought the Post, apparently quashing an editorial endorsement that was going to back Harris. Staff were outraged and critics charged Bezos was wary of falling afoul of Trump if he wins, so he opted to do no endorsement at all.

Many readers have cancelled their subscriptions in protest.

To me, the biggest irony may be the fact that the Washington Post's long time slogan, adopted in 2017, is printed on its front page: "Democracy dies in darkness."

Seems to be getting darker every day.

**Posted by Dial Twister** November 1, 2024 6:11 pm

"There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain."
...Liz Cheney

(Originally directed at complicit Republican politicians. Can righteously be applied to Jeff Bezos, and others, now.)

If a net worth of $215,000,000,000 (that's billions) doesn't give you enough courage to defy a convicted felon, what is the point?

**Posted by newsguy1** November 1, 2024 7:06 pm

Just once again proves the old adage that when democracy dies truth is the first victim.
That almost always means persecution of journalism.
Liz Cheney, much as I abhor pretty well everything she stands for as well as her hellish father, is right.
It's funny how fast fascists convent when it is their lives that get effected.

**Posted by mace** November 2, 2024 6:40 am

I believe the LA Times also declined to endorse a candidate.

**Posted by Shorty Wave** November 2, 2024 7:46 am

For any newspaper to lose subscribers nowadays is not good, as they are probably not coming back and new subscribers are few and far between.