Jeff Bezos deserves credit for Washington Post intervention
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As I write this, the Washington Post has reportedly lost over 250,000 paid subscribers after choosing not to endorse a presidential candidate in this year’s election. There’s no guarantee that all of those unsubscribes are due to the decision — and the figure has come from an anonymous source — but there’s no doubt that many are fleeing the paper because they feel it betrayed their trust.
In the era of the first Trump presidency, the Post adopted the slogan, “democracy dies in darkness,” fashioning itself as a sort of check on the new president. It won thousands of subscribers by implying that its adversarial coverage would disproportionately target one man: Donald J. Trump.
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