Washington Post Subscribers reportedly are bleeding after the owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, decided to switch the newspaper opinion page.
It appears that more than 75,000 digital subscribers have dropped their papers since the Amazon founder set limits on reporting opinions. It has been reported on friday.
The article said:
The number of cancellations comes from people who asked for anonymity because they feared the impact of the incident in post. The Washington Post declined to comment on the figures. This was first reported by NPR and cited its position as a private company. He also did not comment on the criticism.
According to AFP, Bezos announced on Wednesday: Of course we will also cover other topics, but perspectives against those pillars will be made public by others. ”
Bezos later said that David Shipley, editor of the editor page, decided to leave his role because he was not involved in the updated policy.
Continuing the NPR report:
The cancellation of the rapid fires since Wednesday represents a historic level of readers' rage over the change. But they are just the latest wave of a series of mass cancellations that began in late October. That was when Bezos killed the planned support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Over 300,000 subscribers cancelled between then and Election Day. postas NPR first reported last month.
Following the Harris fiasco, many celebrities have cancelled their subscriptions postall Breitbart news.
January, post He is reportedly ready to fire dozens of staff, and a Breitbart news report said Bezos was shaking things in the newspaper after he decided not to support Harris.
The outlet also said “Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Anne Terna has resigned.” post And he accused the editor of killing the drafted cartoon for portrayal of Bezo and Trump. ”
