Sure, but how many of those were digital subscribers with no ties to the area? Print subscriptions have been declining for years for varied reasons. Print subscribers tend to live in the D.C. area and are older. Some may be mad at Bezos. Others may have moved, switched to digital or simply died.
Print readers tend to live in the area. They could have dropped it for non-Bezos reasons. Maybe they moved out of the area, or switched from print to digital. Could be partly Bezos, partly a trend. I mean, the NYT has 11.6 million subscribers but only 600,000 are print.
People who subscribe to the print paper live in the area. They could have non-Bezos reasons for dropping it. Maybe they switched from print to digital or moved or the print edition got too expensive. It says *something* but without the digital numbers it's not a full picture.
Print subscribers live in the area so there could be non-Bezos reasons why they dropped the paper. It's possible they switched from print to digital or moved out of the area or it got too expensive.
I believe that's just print circulation. We don't know how many digital subscribers the Post has. It could be many more. For example, the NYT has 11.6 million subscribers but only 600,000 are print.
Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
It was a little sad to listen to the final WTF but Marc Maron's talk with @barackobama.bsky.social ended the podcast on a hopeful note. Thanks @marcmaron.bsky.social for being such great company all these years.
The NYT has a bigger news staff throughout the country and the world than just about any other media organization. I don't know what else could rival it. Even the Associated Press has been cutting back.
Businesses go bankrupt all the time. The government doesn't step in to bail them out unless there's a compelling national interest. I don't know if providing pig feed and cooking oil for China meets that national interest, especially since they've shown they can get it elsewhere and won't return.
What's the downside of soybean farmers going bankrupt? They're not growing food for U.S. consumption. Do they employ that many people? Looks like two guys in a field. How much equipment do they buy every year? Is there a national interest in bailing out an export industry?
Unfortunately, Republicans in Congress have realized that they can spend their time doing *absolutely nothing* and face no consequences. Until a few of them lose their jobs nothing will change.
I think that's where it gets harder for Democrats. Republicans will convince themselves that Trump *has* accomplished the things he talked about. Or they'll just blame the Democrats and give him a pass. One thing they will never do is turn against him.
Agreed. I don't think the writer is saying that Trump and Mamdani are the same but that they bring out the same kind of devotion in voters and that's something Democrats can try to copy. Brad Lander, another mayoral candidate, probably had good ideas but lacked the charisma.
This is a very good read. It reminds me of 2008 when Obama's primary was based on rhetoric and vibes without much policy about HOW. I voted for HRC because she was a policy wonk, but it was my first real understanding of how powerful vibes can motivate apathetic voters.
I read the column to be more like: Here's how Democrats can inspire the same level of passion as Trump does, but a different type of passion, without the hatred and lying and chaos.
From the NYT article: The code of conduct for federal judges requires them to act in ways that promote “public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.”
Is there a similar requirement for Supreme Court justices or are they exempt from the code of conduct?
