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2022-12-15 Economy
The Washington Post, which has lost 500k subscribers in the past year, has announced layoffs
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Posted by 3dc 2022-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,  

#1 Lost readers here as well. People are not reading online also. News is so negative people are avoiding negative media. USA sells better here in my area 2-1 better on average. Young people only viewing social media or gaming.
Posted by Dale 2022-12-15 03:42||   2022-12-15 03:42|| Front Page Top

#2 NYT - on staff strike, or a neat way to hide the need to temporarily lighten payroll??)

CNN - canning 100's of staff and Big $$$ talking heads

BuzzFeed - Cut 12% of its staffers

Gannett - USA-TODAY owners, laid off 100's

NBC, ABC, CBS, all cutting staff.

and now WaPo - doing the same.

What do they all share in common? Slanted and/or Fake News.

I guess even liberals hate paying for or supporting Media that can't report the truth, and lie to them.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-12-15 08:20||   2022-12-15 08:20|| Front Page Top

#3 When you basically get the same story, you don't need two dozen plus suppliers. Their 'market' is saturated.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-15 08:29||   2022-12-15 08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Most people do news ala cart from trusted news sources online. There is probably a trend away from getting news via Facebook and YouTube, as well. Everybody saw the herding of viewpoints during Covid. A substantial percentage of Americans won’t put up with being herded. The remaining herd continues to dwindle, because fascist whining is boring and annoying to sane individuals. Also Americans have an inmate understanding that herd members are on the menu with regard to exploitation. Eventually, the herd will just consist of vociferating B-D list celebrities.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-15 08:44||   2022-12-15 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 The "choir" they preach to is shrinking with age. Kids may be as gullible and left-indoctrinated, but they get all their affirmation of the untruths they live by from their social contacts and social media. They are not buying WaPo or NYT and they are not tuning in cable news.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-15 08:48||   2022-12-15 08:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Learn to code.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-15 10:17||   2022-12-15 10:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Good start for WAPO. Still a good liner for the canary cage. Is WAPO still a place to leak for the intelligence community?
Posted by JohnQC 2022-12-15 11:17||   2022-12-15 11:17|| Front Page Top

#8 People are not buying the Mockingbird Media anymore?
Posted by JohnQC 2022-12-15 11:20||   2022-12-15 11:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Pssst! I hear CNN+ is hiring
Posted by Frank G 2022-12-15 11:28||   2022-12-15 11:28|| Front Page Top

#10 I'd wager a lifestyle product would get a much better ROI, cost and audience reached, with a slate of current influencers than something like post whose business models seems to be attract views with the same stories everyone else is putting out.

Remember when Team Brandon wanted to sell, really wanted to sell especially among the young, that WW111 over Ukraine is a Happy Joy position, they went to the modern day door-to-door sales approach of influencers.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-12-15 11:29||   2022-12-15 11:29|| Front Page Top

#11 #7 - WaPo does CIA.
NYT gets DOJ/FBI leaks
Posted by Frank G 2022-12-15 11:29||   2022-12-15 11:29|| Front Page Top

#12 THEY LOST 500,000 SUBSCRIBERS?

Out of how many? I think most newspapers don't even have that many subscribers, let alone being able to lose that many and stay in business. Is this the end of WaPo? That'd be the best news I've heard all year! Now if we could just get people to stop watching CBS...
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-12-15 11:52||   2022-12-15 11:52|| Front Page Top

#13 Out of 2.5M, supposedly, so 20%
Posted by Frank G 2022-12-15 11:55||   2022-12-15 11:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Well, it's a start.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-12-15 12:04||   2022-12-15 12:04|| Front Page Top

#15 To lose a thousand subscribers is a tragedy, to lose half a million is just carelessness. Where did you have them last?
Posted by SteveS 2022-12-15 12:05||   2022-12-15 12:05|| Front Page Top

#16 From Nick Nolte at Breitbart:

Well, this is what happens when you’re a bunch of scumbag liars.

You can ask CNN about that.

Did the Washington Post honestly believe it could do this…

Russia Collusion Hoax
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax
Jussie Smollett Hoax
Covington KKKids Hoax
Very Fine People Hoax
Seven-Hour Gap Hoax
Global Warming Hoax
Russian Bounties Hoax
Trump Trashes Troops Hoax
Policemen Killed at Mostly-Peaceful January 6 Protest Hoax
Rittenhouse Hoax
Eating While Black Hoax
Border Agents Whipping Illegals Hoax
NASCAR Noose Hoax
The Georgia Jim Crow 2.0 Hoax
Trump Assaulted Secret Service Agents and Grabbed Steering Wheel of Beast Hoax
Frame MAGA for Alleged Paul Pelosi Assault Narrative
…and hold onto its customers?

After a while, even leftists get tired of paying for lies.

You can ask CNN+ about that.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-12-15 12:09||   2022-12-15 12:09|| Front Page Top

#17 I suggested they might try "Practicing *actual* Journalism"
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-12-15 12:52||   2022-12-15 12:52|| Front Page Top

#18 ^ it is journalism, according the the newly Orwellian revised Marian-Webster Newspeak dictionary.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-15 17:01||   2022-12-15 17:01|| Front Page Top

#19 Youtube channels have more subscribers than the Washington Post.

From those pieces of shit who heard when we were getting laid off, laughed and told us "learn to code." The world was changing and it was our job to retrain and learn new skills.

Then their jobs were threatened by new technology, and when we told them "learn to code" Twitter banned us for hate speech.
Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-12-15 19:31||   2022-12-15 19:31|| Front Page Top

#20 ^ True
Posted by Frank G 2022-12-15 19:46||   2022-12-15 19:46|| Front Page Top

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