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.
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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 :) 🏴☠️
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.
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
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Just canceled prime too
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.
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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
- Nixon Watergate
- Reagan: sold drugs to buy guns for guys Congress said not to buy guns for because they were mass murderers
- Bush Sr US: helped with above
- Bush Jr faked evidence for a war which killed half a million people and cost 6 trillion dollars also illegally tortured
- Trump do I even need to do this one?
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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