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"NPR...reported that 'more than 1,600 digital subscriptions had been cancelled less than four hours after the news broke.'
It was a reasonable impulse. But if Bezos is indeed why the Post is no longer endorsing candidates, and if people are worried about his outsize influence on our society, they should not be canceling their newspaper subscriptions. They should be canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions."
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Cancel Amazon Prime, Not ‘The Washington Post’
The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.Ellen Cushing (The Atlantic)
Florida threatens to criminally charge TV stations airing abortion rights ad https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/09/florida-abortion-tv-ad-caroline/
If there is one thing the free speech clause of the first amendment is supposed to do, it is to make sure the govt does not censor viewpoints it does not like.
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Florida threatens to criminally charge TV stations airing abortion rights ad
The Florida health department is demanding stations pull the ad, which urges voters to defeat the state’s six-week abortion ban at the polls.Ben Brasch (The Washington Post)