The Backlash: Why Washington Post Lost 200k subscribers

Tycoon industrialist and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has safeguarded his publication’s choice not to back Kamala Harris or even her opponent, Donald Trump in front of the November 5 political race, demanding political supports “make a view of predisposition.”

Washington Post Chief and Distributer Will Lewis declared on Friday that the paper was doing without its pick for president, prompting shock inside and beyond the newsroom.

The paper’s publication board supposedly had a draft written for VP Kamala Harris over previous President Donald Trump before the kibosh was placed on the underwriting.

In excess of 200,000 Washington Post perusers so far have finished their advanced memberships following the disputable choice, NPR provided details regarding Monday.

The paper’s choice not to underwrite in the 2024 political race denotes the first time in quite a while it won’t give a support.

Lewis, the paper’s distributer, composed on Friday that the Washington Post was not parting from custom, but instead getting back to the paper’s training from quite a while back of not underwriting up-and-comers.

He said it was “reliable with the qualities the Post has consistently represented” and it mirrored the paper’s confidence in “our perusers’ capacity to make up their own personalities.”

Bezos ended his quiet regarding this situation in a commentary distributed by the Washington Post Monday night, October 28, contending his paper choice to end its long-running act of underwriting a contender for the White House is a “principled choice, and it’s the right one.”

“Official supports never really steer the results of a political decision. No uncertain electors in Pennsylvania will say, ‘I’m going with Paper An’s underwriting.’ None,” he composed.

“What official supports really do is make a view of inclination. A view of non-freedom.”

Bezos, in the commentary, likewise focused on that the American public has little to no faith in the press any longer and news associations “should work harder to control what we have some control over to build our validity.”

“We should be exact, and we should be accepted to be precise. It’s an unpleasant reality, however we are bombing on the subsequent prerequisite,” he composed.

“The vast majority accept the media is one-sided. Any individual who doesn’t see this is giving insufficient consideration to the real world, and the people who battle reality lose.”

The second-most extravagant man on the planet added his paper and the New York Times win various honors, yet “progressively we talk just to a specific first class.”

“Many individuals are going to spur of the moment web recordings, incorrect virtual entertainment posts and other unconfirmed news sources, which can immediately spread deception and extend divisions,” Bezos expressed.

The Amazon organizer likewise tended to a claim from one of the staff members that ventured down, supervisor at-large Robert Kagan, that Bezos arrived at an arrangement with Trump on the grounds that the GOP candidate met with chiefs at Blue Beginning the space organization possessed by Bezos – after the Washington Post’s declaration.

“I might likewise want to be evident that no renumeration of any sort is working here,” he stated “Neither mission nor up-and-comer was counseled or informed at any level or in any capacity about this choice.”

Bezos guaranteed he knew nothing about the gathering between Blue Beginning and Trump that happened that very day as the non-underwriting declaration, and when he later looked into it, he “moaned.”

“I realized it would give ammo to the people who might want to approach this as something besides a principled choice,” he composed.