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Dear_Prudence

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14. Slate, go pound sand.

Thu Oct 31, 2024, 12:17 PM

Oct 31

The Slate publication advises that we cancel Amazon instead. No. I cancelled WaPo as a political act and because I feel like their integrity might be compromised. You might remember the 2018 NPR news story: "Video reveals power of Sinclair, as local news anchors recite script in unison". It hit me so hard to see our local newscaster become a corporate parrot that I even began to mistrust our local Channel 12 weather report. Paranoid, maybe so, but the next year, Trump altered the Dorian hurricane map with a Sharpie! So, too bad for the WaPo journalists, but I am not paying for gagged news or opinion edited with a Sharpie. As for Amazon, I don't suspect that the silly light media content that I personally consume will be compromised and, as a person with limited mobility, I "let my fingers do the walking" for much of my shopping. So, Slate, you make some excellent points. Now, go pound sand.

https://slate.com/business/2024/10/washington-post-endorsement-election-cancel-jeff-bezos.html

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I just got an E-mail from WAPO [View all] Otto_Harper Oct 31 OP

Washington Post report: Subscriber loss after non-endorsement reaches a quarter million irisblue Oct 31 #1

Many people do pay attention to the manipulation of the press and will stop their subscptions if the paper is shown to efhmc Oct 31 #2

Richly deserved! peggysue2 Oct 31 #3

How much are they paying you to subscribe? 😁 Wonder Why Oct 31 #4

I'll check if I have one I can trash. Nt BootinUp Oct 31 #5

I got that immediately after I canceled my subscription. ificandream Oct 31 #6

I cancelled them months ago and I get those kind of offers often. IrishAfricanAmerican Oct 31 #7

I got the same, LOL, when times were tougher, each time I tried to cancel. (Originally, a 30-day $1 trial) Backseat Driver Oct 31 #8

They are offering me $5/month. Mosby Oct 31 #9

Same obamanut2012 Oct 31 #10

I have been getting offers of $1/month for at least three months now. niyad Oct 31 #11

Tots and pears. onecaliberal Oct 31 #12

It might be more effective if Maggiemayhem Oct 31 #13

Slate, go pound sand. Dear_Prudence Oct 31 #14

Tell them they have to convince the staff that quit to come back mdbl Oct 31 #15

I doubt it... Trueblue Texan Oct 31 #16

Meh. progressoid Oct 31 #17

When prompted for my reason for cancellation I wrote, "Because democracy dies in the darkness." Marcuse Oct 31 #18

Price Zambero Nov 1 #19