I canceled mine (though it’s paid up until July, 2024). It gave me a list of reasons for cancellation I could choose from. The closest was “concerns about Washington Post content”. If they really care about reader feedback, they should have “concerns about owner interference in journalistic integrity.”
Gift link
https://wapo.st/3A3hve5
Today’s Ann Telnais WP editorial cartoon is a panel of darkness.
I’m in the same boat re: cancelling; also there are (for now, anyway) responsible, ethical reporters, editors, and columnists doing their best to continue to serve and preserve the ideals of their masthead, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
I just subscribed, $10/year for the basic subscription. They present many sources for a given story and state what the left-center-right bias is. I’ll try it out and see how I like it.
Holy shit. Certainly makes the point.
May I suggest The Boston Globe? Jill Abramson’s column today in Opinions is headlined “Democracy dies in broad daylight, thanks to Jeff Bezos.” It does have an emphasis on New England regional coverage, of course, but there’s plenty of national and international coverage as well.
I just dropped in at Bluesky and this was one of the posts:
from friends in WaPo newsroom, they lost enough subscriptions yday for it to be immediately noticeable and discussed and have an impact on a visibly panicky management.
NPR News is already mentioned. I don’t believe they endorse candidates, in fact I don’t think they even publish editorials. I find the news to be factual, although of course I can’t see what they maybe didn’t print. They take longer to publish some fast-breaking stories or events because they seem to be more interested in accuracy than in having a scoop. In my opinion, while they cover a fairly wide range of interests, the quantity of stories is smaller than other news outlets. So I would supplement them, maybe with some more local source for your area.
For international news, I don’t think you can beat Reuters. They are going to a pay system, but at US$1 per week, paid 13 times a year, it seems pretty reasonable.
Welcome to our world.
I am sure it is the merest coincidence that Trump met with Blue Origin executives a few days ago.
I assure you they’ll know why. You’re one of a flood of thousands.
This (my bolding above) has not been discussed enough. It puts the lie to the mealy-mouthed posturing by editor Lewis:
Apparently they DON’T support their readers’ ability to make up their minds in other races.
^This. We cannot trust ANYTHING printed in the Washington Post, now that we know that it must meet with Bezos’ approval in order to be printed.
In one choice, he made this once-respected paper into a joke.
Since it forms so tiny a part of his fortune, why doesn’t he just sell it off? If he keeps it the existing staff is absolutely certain to publish things that will arouse the ire of the Melon Felon.
Bezos should sell the paper to the staff. Then he can move forward, unencumbered, with his efforts to fellate the (possibly-future President) dictator.
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The Lewis quote comes from:
Yes, but Bezos chooses leadership, and he will replace leadership with people who lean his way and will bend to his wishes. Whereas today an article about Trump calling for the execution of migents would be front page news, tomorrow it might only make page 5 or not be covered at all.
My husband decided this morning we are cancelling our subscription over this. I agree with him.
Who knows, maybe those thousands all decided to cancel because they didn’t like today’s Cathy comic.
I subscribed a couple of months ago, just to see what it was about. I don’t find it a great source for news, mostly because it seems to considers “stories” about what some pundit said about some candidate, as on the same level of importance as actual news about events. And the labels about reliability (e.g. “mixed factuality”) describe the publication, not the individual story you are reading. I’m not completely sold on their use of AI to compose story summaries either.
WaPo management:
“AACK!”
Canceled.
I got a splash screen telling me to create an account to redeem the free article. Not going to happen.
This sort of thing strikes me as another reason to cancel. A gift link ought to be a gift link, period. If they don’t want to do gift links, then don’t do them; but don’t claim a subscription also includes gift links when it doesn’t.
The wonderful Alexandra Petrie, humor columnist for the WP:
But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/26/washington-post-endorses-kamala-harris-satire/