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The Washington Post Is in Full-Scale Collapse
Red State ^ | 01/05/2024 | Bonchie

Posted on 01/05/2024 9:14:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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21 posted on 01/05/2024 11:01:23 PM PST by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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News papers are dead.
people get news from the internet site of their choice, not the Democrats dominated hard print.
I like to read from a piece of paper and I have a LASER printer so union guys can go learn a new trade.
Don’t get me wrong I visit all different sites for opposing points of views, but I control that.
Not some fuc*ing Democrat nutcase fanatic doing it for me.
The time it takes you go through the section A of a paper
I can read Russian. Chinese, Israeli, Indian, and European news all with their bias.


22 posted on 01/05/2024 11:15:15 PM PST by rellic (the "woods)
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News papers are dead.
people get news from the internet site of their choice, not the Democrats dominated hard print.
I like to read from a piece of paper and I have a LASER printer so union guys can go learn a new trade.
Don’t get me wrong I visit all different sites for opposing points of views, but I control that.
Not some fuc*ing Democrat nutcase fanatic doing it for me.
The time it takes you go through the section A of a paper
I can read Russian. Chinese, Israeli, Indian, and European news all with their bias.


23 posted on 01/05/2024 11:18:06 PM PST by rellic (the "woods)
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Worth reading, but “died-in-the-wool” ? Bonchie needs a proof reader.


24 posted on 01/05/2024 11:55:21 PM PST by printhead (.)
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Worth reading, but “died-in-the-wool” ? Bonchie needs a proof reader.


25 posted on 01/05/2024 11:55:22 PM PST by printhead (.)
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Won’t be satisfied until all its facilities have been razed, the owners tried, found guilty, and hung, and the employees fired with prejudice..


26 posted on 01/06/2024 12:00:59 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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According to Forbes, Jeff Bezos is worth about $167.6 billion (the number keeps changing).

So $100 million loss a year is nothing to him. He didn't buy the WP to make a profit, but to have influence.

The loss of readership is a bigger annoyance for him, but only if it means a loss of influence. It really depends on what sort of reader he's losing (ordinary folk?) vs. what sort continue to read the WP (important folk?).

27 posted on 01/06/2024 12:09:41 AM PST by Angelino97
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oh elon!


28 posted on 01/06/2024 1:26:46 AM PST by joshua c
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29 posted on 01/06/2024 3:56:32 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
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The loss of readership is a bigger annoyance for him, because it means a loss of influence.

I changed that a bit because that is Bezo’s biggest problem. His hard core readership are already true believers (fanatics) so the paper is preaching to the choir hence changing nobody’s mind. So as a propaganda tool that is trying to convert folks to the leftist mind-set, it is a failure. And while the losses are small fraction of Bezo’s fortune I suspect that the FedGov has a way to offset those losses somewhat. I would not be surprised if a substantial number of hard-copy subscriptions are to FedGov offices and their personnel.


30 posted on 01/06/2024 3:59:25 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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Yeah—I was running the numbers on this.

Suppose someone is worth one million dollars.

This ventures loses 100 million divided by 167.6 billion = .0006 of the wealth per year.

.0006 x one million = $ 600 a year.

That is $ 50 a month for the millionaire—pocket change really.


31 posted on 01/06/2024 4:07:28 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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The underlying story, for the Washington Post and like mainstream media outlets, is the rise of alternative media that has broken out of the Overton Window of "acceptable" political and cultural opinion. The cultural revolution of the Left against all public institutions has gone into high gear, but there is increasing pushback. Ask Anheuser Busch, Disney, and Target about the effects of boycotts. However, the in your face election fraud of 2020, the COVID lockdowns and the push for mandatory inoculations, and the harsh treatment of Trump, his allies, and the January 6th protesters vs. the permissive attitude toward the crimes of the Clintons and the Bidens, the Antifa and BLM rioters and now the pro-Hamas protesters have thoroughly alienated half the American population.

Thus, Tucker Carson, Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, and hundreds of smaller podcasters have audiences that Fox, CNN, and the old three TV networks envy. Elon Musk has broken the iron curtain imposed after 2017 by Big Tech. Additionally, numerous smaller sites like Rumble have bypassed the old guard tech platforms.

The powers that be have lost their formerly dominant mind control, so their rhetoric to their followers is ramping up to Goebbels like levels. Their attacks on Trump are only serving to strengthen him. If he dies or is imprisoned, the conservative base will reject Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis, who are within the Overton Window and are well funded by the Bush wing of the GOP.

32 posted on 01/06/2024 4:27:05 AM PST by Wallace T.
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The feel-good story of the day.


33 posted on 01/06/2024 4:52:33 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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Hey WaPo, hold my Bud Light.
34 posted on 01/06/2024 5:12:07 AM PST by GrannyAnn ( )
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To: Angelino97

It’s a strategic tax write off.


35 posted on 01/06/2024 5:15:34 AM PST by GrannyAnn ( )
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Another example that the Left destroys everything they touch, even if it's one of "theirs".
There are no exceptions.
36 posted on 01/06/2024 5:17:43 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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Oh, what a shame!

Where will we go to get our dose of stories too dumb to believe?


37 posted on 01/06/2024 5:18:48 AM PST by Lakeside Granny (IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND)
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Rumor has it that The Babylon Bee is putting together a buyout offer.

I think I read that in the Babylon Bee.


38 posted on 01/06/2024 5:20:53 AM PST by steve in DC
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The rich billionaire Leftists, of which there are many, will spend whatever is necessary to keep the Washington Post propaganda organ in business.


39 posted on 01/06/2024 5:21:00 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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Watch VR smack down an WaPo “reporter”:

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/01/04/wapo-reporter-who-was-schooled-by-ramaswamy-does-exactly-what-he-said-she-would-n4925236

Good stuff!


40 posted on 01/06/2024 5:39:47 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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