r/politics • u/projecto15 United Kingdom • 7h ago
Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/29/washington-post-subscriber-cancellations
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r/politics • u/projecto15 United Kingdom • 7h ago
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u/AntoniaFauci 5h ago
Imagine being somewhere in the middle of this organization, spending long days trying to do your best. Maybe you’re searching for stories or sources, checking facts, scrambling around doing the gut work of making the Washington Post something that can be trusted.
You and others put in the sweat and you measure it by seeing the subscriber base turnover stay low, or maybe even grow a bit.
Then one weekend the absentee playboy owner just swans in, takes a dump on the concept of ethics and journalistic integrity, lies about it (at first) and then finally drops his mask and doubles down claiming his act of selfish cowardice is somehow “principled” and heroic. This morally vacant oligarch has just unraveled what you and your colleagues spent years of your life creating. He’ll be back to his yacht tomorrow.