The Washington Post Is Bleeding Money

[applegrove]

The Washington Post Is Bleeding Money

July 23, 2023 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/07/23/the-washington-post-is-bleeding-money/

"SNIP........

The Washington Post is on a pace to lose about $100 million in 2023, the New York Times reports.

“The Post has struggled to increase the number of its paying customers since the 2020 election, when its digital subscriptions peaked at three million. It now has around 2.5 million.”

.........SNIP"

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. Bwaaa..the NYT reports....

[applegrove]

2. Not funny.

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. Applegrove..whom I respect..i wasn't referring to you..no offense meant..the NYT and Wash post

Are playing both sides...like M$M..they are all about access...have you seen any Biden/Harris 2024 flags behind them...now..let NYT display their readership...right now they have the slobfather on display...needs to stop!!!!

[brooklynite]

12. You're saying you don't like their pictures?

[brooklynite]

13. You're saying you don't like their pictures?

[asiliveandbreathe]

17. answer to #12 and #13..mindbending..genius I tell ya..genius..

NO debate without slobfathers flag 2024..and NO debate Gov. Hobbs is the best!!!

[marybourg]

3. I used to subscribe, but in a recent "upgrade" to their site,

I became unable to change the font sizes ‘on the fly’ as I read on my iPad. I cancelled, unable to read comfortably. I see they rectified that soon afterwards. Maybe I’ll try it again. They are an important resource.

[Hortensis]

20. Hope it works. The WaPo is more politically honest than the NYT.

[marybourg]

22. Absolutely

[yardwork]

4. I subscribe and buy gift subscriptions. WaPo is not perfect, but one of the best options.

[Bev54]

10. They need to get rid of a few of their lazy writers who take away the integrity of the Post

I am looking at you Josh Dawley and Devin Bartlett. When their stories can be ripped apart because they appear to be the Maggie Haberman of WP and bury real facts and write what they are told.

[hlthe2b]

6. I do subscribe. Unfortunately that means my budget can't accomodate all the local ones I used to

including both the Denver Post and a number of Front Range newspapers that had once excelled in local investigative reporting.

We so need good news outlets--both National and local. I do what I can.

In my opinion, since Bezos owns both, he should go back to offering a deal on WAPO subscriptions as part of the Amazon Prime package. He has done something like this in the past, but not now.

[Big Blue Marble]

8. I, too, do not understand why Primes members do not receive a discount. N/T

[brooklynite]

16. Provided on the Apple News platform.

[Ms. Toad]

25. When Amazon stopped,

I discovered that I could get a significantly cheaper subscription on my own - at least for the first year it was $1/month. Looking at advertisements, without any special discounts for educators, it is as cheap as $29/year.

[Big Blue Marble]

7. As a subscriber,

I have seen the quality of coverage slip over the last three years. Lots of headlines
implying that Biden is weak and unsuccessful as president. Lots of light- weight articles.
Most days lately at least one and often two on Barbie. And other click bait rather than
the high quality journalism I had come to expect from the Post for over forty year and
too many right wing opinion pieces.

It is easy to see why their subscription base is shrinking. These days I prefer the Atlantic.

[spooky3]

9. This is distressing--we need them. I suggest WaPo drop its excessive

Number of right wing opinion writers.

[brooklynite]

15. OR...you could just not read the stories you don't like.

Newspapers aren't losing business because they're not left wing enough. The dynamics of media consumption (including the expectation that access should be free) have been changing for more than a decade.

[spooky3]

19. I'm suggesting an area of cost savings. Nt

[brush]

11. I wouldn't be surprised if the NYT isn't having problems itself as...

the traditional newspaper business model no longer works as online subscriptions don't make up for the loss ad revenue of the printed product. That's been evident from the shrinking and closing of newspapers for years now all over the country.

I hope the Post's billionaire owner will keep it going. He wanted in the newspaper business even though the industry is shrinking and changing. Hope he keeps supporting it as it's one of the top remaining papers in business.

[applegrove]

14. +100

[LiberalFighter]

18. How many subscribers did they have before the internet?

Before subscribing for access on the internet?

[usonian]

21. New York Times is for the birds.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/21/science/bird-calls-songs-quiz.html

Can You Understand Bird? Test Your Recognition of Calls and Songs
July 21, 2023



Top that! Washington Post.

[Elessar Zappa]

23. That's sad to hear.

The Washington Post, in general, is a quality newspaper, certainly better than the NYT.

[peggysue2]

24. I dropped my NYT's subscription in favor of WAPO

I decided between the two because from my perspective the Washington Post gave a more balanced angle on the news. Of course, there have been columnists and OpEds I haven't agreed with but I'm less irritated with those exceptions than I was with the Gray Lady's hyperbolic headlines and/or burying their leads at the bottom of a news report. My final straw with the NYT's was the appalling coverage of Hillary Clinton in 2016 and an OP-Ed they ran (can't remember the name of the author and don't want to) that was a disgusting smear from beginning to end). And then there was the psycho-babble of Maureen Dowd and her non-stop Hillary Hate Fest. After all of that, the Times endorsed Clinton. But only after slicing and dicing her into a million tiny pieces.

And then, we got Trump.

Unforgivable! Will never subscribe again.

In all honesty, I should have learned the lesson after NYTs Iraq/Miller beat-the-drum-to-victory coverage. That was equally catastrophic.

[edhopper]

26. At this rate

Beezos will run out of money in 200 years.