The numbers are based on the number of cancellation emails that have been sent out, according to a source at the paper, though the subscriber dashboard is no longer viewable to employees.
Bozos doesn't like you looking at how badly he fucked up.
Do Amazon next. I plan to let mine expire. Amazon video is trash.
I don't think I've ever watched anything from Amazon directly.
Seen lots of their content though :) 🏴☠️
Arr, yarr, haharrr!
I always get excited when I see the files labelled with AMZN, the quality is consistent
Even when I was a subscriber, I would just grab the torrent, much more enjoyable to watch with VLC than a browser
Letting mine go. I kept it for Vox Machina, but I will acquire it other ways next season and support the team directly.
Yup, I'm not paying an extra $3/mo on top of what I pay for prime for no ads, I'll just not watch what's on your service. Not to mention, most of the filler movies/shows on all of these streaming services are garbage anyway. If it weren't for my wife, I would just have my Jellyfin server by itself.
If I lived anywhere near a city and not in the mountains, I wouldn't have prime either. It just saves too much time whereas my time is in short supply and I don't have it to make a 3 hour round trip run every few days.
Their subscriber numbers have been absolutely decimated by Bezos’ decision.
It’s down 10% which is the literal definition of decimated!
~~Literally decimated would be “down to 10%” aka down 90% I think~~ I was wrong
All you had to do was click the link and you would have found out that you are wrong.
Yeah you’re right I’m the one who mixed it ip
Decimation means killing 1/10th of a group or population.
It means removal of 1/10th. deci 1/10 matus remove. So yes decimation was the name of the Roman punishment where 1/10 of a group was killed. But it can be applied to any group of people or things.
The description goes first, then the link.
CNN talks about WaPo getting a backlash for not endorsing, but says nothing about Bezos intervention, lol.
https://lite.cnn.com/2024/10/29/media/usa-today-gannett-newspapers-endorsement-president/index.html
That's weird. I know CNN is quite familiar with dipshits intervening in coverage, so they should be able to spot it. They had one fuckface bend over backwards to give Donald an hour in front of a friendly live audience with a milquetoast moderator who was able to do fuckall against the lies.
Was there any evidence that Bozos made that decision? We’re all ready to believe it but want it just one persons allegation or something?
Just canceled prime too
On the one hand, I know that the newspaper had done this for decades and stopped now...
On the other hand: If a big German newspaper recommended voting a specific person, this would be a huge scandal...
We have only 2 major parties and one has been a criminal enterprise for 56 years
At this point Trump wants to form militias to round up 25M people and drag them to concentration camps and turn the military loose on anyone who disagrees.
This includes 11M undocumented workers who almost all live law abiding lives and Americans who were born here from above who are by our constitution citizens regardless of the status of their parents.
He has publically called for violence, and end to our constitution, a new era where the dictator tells the government what the law is.
It is strange for any responsible party not to oppose essentially Hitler.
Opposing soneone is not unusual in Germany. Supporting one person or party is what does not happen here.
I'm not a fan of the orange one... Just telling about the German view on this..
With 2 parties supporting the other is the only way that you oppose the one.
The only way that you effectively oppose the other
You can always vote third party if you want to pay lip service while helping the candidate you dislike
The comparison doesn't work. In the US it is common practice that a newspaper gives a recommendation.
Also the US has a two party system. Compare this to Germany's multi party system. If you are undecided between to options a recommendation might help. If you are undecided whether you should vote the Greens or SPD a newspaper recommending CDU doesn't help you at all.
While it is not illegal for a newspaper to give a recommendation in Germany, it would be a scandal indeed. But the only reason for this would be that they didn't do it before. People are just complaining about changes like in this case as well
Which drives the partisanisation of the media. Bozo is right about one thing: the trust in media is at an all time low in the US and trust is build through accurate and unbiased reporting. Endorsing politicians is biased as hell.
The newspapers repudiation of a fascist in dangerous times would hit that much harder had they not endorsed other politicians in less dangerous times.
So now it's damned if they do, damned if they don't... swallow that pill they must at some point. But it would have been an easier pill to swallow after the rule of fascism in the US had been averted.
It also would be easier to accept if they were not changing policy immediately before an election, especially one with such serious consequences
Exactly - I find the comments in this thread very confusing. A free and impartial press is one of the cornerstones of democracy.
I now understand a lot better why there is such a distrust in journalism in the US.
Fwiw, this was always the “op Ed” section, editorial opinion.
I do believe that most reputable news sources historically distinguished facts they reported on from their editors opinion. It’s worth the same as any other well-informed persons opinion.
Of course that also led to Fox “News” and a radically misinformed public, so it certainly went to hell
It's sad how much this will hurt good people who work for the Washington Post and how little this will affect Bezos.
If you still work at the Post after all this time it's kind of on you. They've had years to find employment at outlets that aren't a direct mouthpiece for Bezos.
I'm not sure it's that simple. The job market isn't great right now, you're on a programming instance so I would think you would know that the job market is rough even for programmers right now.
The can cancel as well and work somewhere else.
Can’t imagine many news publications are offering competitive job offers.
Job hunting isn’t that great at the moment
Well, it's the price of not being dependent on billionaires.
On the other hand, if the hundreds of thousands of subscribers go to a some publication (I've seen propublica recommended earlier in the comments, for instance) they will be able to pay a decent salary to a bunch of those journalists.
Chump change for Bozos. Hardly a scratch
I daresay this is the outcome he hoped for. Suddenly there are a bunch of open editorial author seats to fill. Taking bets on those seats being filled by people who don't lean quite so far to the left.
And a significant loss in subscribers? That's just the principled people fleeing who weren't gonna buy his nonsense either way. The people who stick around are the ones who are okay with billionaire interference in their news source, and those are the people Bezos wants as subscribers.
😔
Damn, that's quite plausible.
And he doesn't give a shit. Subscribers don't matter, control of a well known paper that will push his interests does.
The bigger question should be: why would anyone subscribe to Bezo's paywalled garden in the first place?
Like everybody else I object to what Bezos did, but boycotting the paper isn't going to tangibly hurt him, financially or in any other way, and it certainly won't change his behavior. The only people affected will be staffers who get laid off or have their salaries cut because of lost revenue. But hey, at least the social justice angels get to feel good by satisfyingly lashing out, and that's what really counts, right? The fantasy that they're fighting for a better world.
When the thing you enjoy and rely on is privately owned, the only way you can express your disappointment is to vote with your dollar.
Edit - the Post has always been too neolib for me to read regularly. I am not a subscriber
Who says it’s to hurt him? The man has billions and billions. If he lost nearly all his wealth he’d still be filthy rich. It’s about not consuming news that’s being blatantly influenced by people with power and money.
So do nothing and continue to financially support something you disagree with? Are you a cuck or something?
I for one agree with besos.How tf is this a wrong thing to do ? The press should not tell you to vote for someone. It should report news. Sure it can shit on one person more than the other due to various circumstances. In case of this particular election it would probably be donald trump. Mostly beacuse its hard not to in his case. But the press itself should not endorse someone. But even if they are biased they should be biased in articles they create so that you can at least blame the particular reporter ( because pepole are biased and you cant really avoid that ). Company itself should not endorse certain politiicians.
The only thing i think besos should do better is do it( and annouce ) after this election or somewhere between election cycles. That was a very poor timing on his part.
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