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“For decades, the #WashingtonPost's editorials have been a beacon of light, signaling hope to dissidents, political prisoners & the voiceless,” Hoffman wrote in a letter Monday explaining his decision to leave the editorial board. “When victims of repression were harassed, exiled, imprisoned & murdered, we made sure the whole world knew the truth.
The other writer is David Hoffman, who accepted a #PulitzerPrize for #editorial writing on Thurs, the day before #Bezos’ decision…. Pulitzer judges recognized him “for a compelling & well-researched series on new #technologies & the tactics #authoritarian regimes use to repress #dissent in the digital age, & how they can be fought.”
The #WashingtonPost has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations of digital #subscriptions & a series of #resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples w/the fallout of owner #Bezos’s decision to block an #endorsement of #KamalaHarris.
>200k people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday…. The figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5M subscribers, which includes print as well.
#FourthEstate #democracy #journalism
npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-51684…
The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
A corporate spokesperson declined to comment, citing The #WashingtonPost Co.'s status as a privately held company.
“It’s a colossal number,” former Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli told NPR. “The problem is, people don’t know why the decision was made. We basically know the decision was made but we don’t know what led to it.”
The sky is blue. The sky is green.
The serendiplty of social media timelines demonstrating the great failure of media coverage of the great divide in the USA with contrasting headlines covering the same rally in Madision Square Garden.
(You might need to click on the image to see the contrast)
Over 200,000 subscribers reportedly flee The Washington Post after owner Jeff Bezos blocked an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
@npr reports "the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well." Several columnists have also resigned from the paper over the decision.
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #USPolitics #JeffBezos #Media #Politics #Trump #News #Journalism
We want to support the journalists; so boycott Amazon and encourage Bezos to sell the Washington Post to someone who gives a shit.
Washington Post writers say don’t dump subscriptions over non-endorsement
theguardian.com/media/2024/oct…
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Washington Post writers say don’t dump subscriptions over non-endorsement
Fears for effect on jobs at newspaper owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos that declined to back a presidential candidateEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
"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."
theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…
#1A #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #boycott #USpol
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)
Newsletter: Independent writers are an important facet of the media ecosystem, but a recent legal threat helps to remind me that it’s not the path for everyone.
citationneeded.news/i-am-my-ow…
#newsletter #CitationNeeded #journalism #IndependentMedia
I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”
Independent publishing is one important facet of the media ecosystem, and while I love it, I know it is not the path for everyone.Molly White (Citation Needed)
The @nytimes endorsed Kamala #Harris for president on September 30.
nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion…
But it re-upped the link in today's email of Headlines and Editor's Picks.
Jeff Bezos deserves to be bankrupted—selling out democracy to protect his wealth. Disgusting.
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #USPol
When the LA Times' owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, killed its endorsement of Kamala Harris, he also quashed a multi-part series, tentatively called "The Case Against Trump," @TheWrap says. So far, three staffers — editorial writer Karin Klein, Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Green and editorials editor Mariel Garza have quit over the lack of endorsement, with Klein calling Soon-Shiong a "chickensh**." To date, the LA Times Guild is the only institution from the paper that has commented publicly. Here's more — free registration may be required to read the full article.
#LATimes #Politics #USPolitics #DonaldTrump #Media #Journalism
LA Times Planned 'Case Against Trump' Series Alongside Kamala Harris Endorsement Before Owner Quashed It | Exclusive - TheWrap
Patrick Soon-Shiong's interference with the paper's editorial freedom has sparked a crisis that includes canceled subscriptions and several high profile resignationsRoss A. Lincoln (TheWrap)
If you've cancelled your Los Angeles Times and/or Washington Post subscription, please reinvest your $$s into quality journalism.
For example, sustain @thexylom, the only Asian American-serving science newsroom. We're a bunch of immigrant zoomers trying to make a difference: opencollective.com/thexylom#ca…
#science #health #environment #climate #AsianDiaspora #nonprofit #journalism #news
The Xylom - Open Collective
We grow science with words. The only AAPI-serving science newsroom: independent, nonprofit, run by Gen-Z!opencollective.com
#PeterTodd has gone underground after an #HBO #documentary named him as the creator of #Bitcoin, #SatoshiNakamoto, whose real #identity has long remained a #mystery.
Source: wired.com/story/peter-todd-was…
#problem #wealth #crime #news #journalism #press #security #crypto
For some reason, the Washington Post changed the headline from:
"Trump meets definition of ‘fascist,’ says John Kelly, his former chief of staff
Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, who is a former general, warned of his former boss’s dictator tendencies in an interview with the New York Times."
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#Journalism #Press #Media #News #Politics #USPol #USA
