I think you might be overestimating both the size and the patience of the Post's remaining subscribers. Some might stay, they keep lowering the price until it's less for a year than many Substack subscriptions. However $30 annual subscriptions won't keep Wapo going. We've already seen how Bezos reacts to the paper bringing in less money.…
I think you might be overestimating both the size and the patience of the Post's remaining subscribers. Some might stay, they keep lowering the price until it's less for a year than many Substack subscriptions. However $30 annual subscriptions won't keep Wapo going. We've already seen how Bezos reacts to the paper bringing in less money. Lay-offs upon lay-offs and when that didn't help he brought in Will Lewis and Matt Murray along with the attempt to bring in Robert Winnet. I feel like that was the definitive beginning of the end of the paper's integrity. Bezos could easily fund a dynamic and wholly independent Washington Post, a fully staffed one even, painlessly. He'd rather put wretched people in charge and cause his staff to live in either fear or shame or both.
I think you might be overestimating both the size and the patience of the Post's remaining subscribers. Some might stay, they keep lowering the price until it's less for a year than many Substack subscriptions. However $30 annual subscriptions won't keep Wapo going. We've already seen how Bezos reacts to the paper bringing in less money. Lay-offs upon lay-offs and when that didn't help he brought in Will Lewis and Matt Murray along with the attempt to bring in Robert Winnet. I feel like that was the definitive beginning of the end of the paper's integrity. Bezos could easily fund a dynamic and wholly independent Washington Post, a fully staffed one even, painlessly. He'd rather put wretched people in charge and cause his staff to live in either fear or shame or both.
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