75,000 Cancel Their Subscriptions In 2 Days After Jeff Bezos Takes Over Washington Post Opinions Page

A wave of readers have responded to Jeff Bezos turning The Washington Post opinions pages into a pro-MAGA forum by canceling their subscriptions.

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Jeff Bezos Runs Off More Washington Post Subscribers

It did not take long for subscribers to react to Jeff Bezos firing the Opinions Editor and taking over the editorial direction himself to move the paper in a more MAGA direction.

NPR reported:

More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since its owner, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced on Wednesday that he would radically overhaul the paper's opinion pages to reflect libertarian priorities and to exclude opposing points of view.

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The Post has aggressively wooed new subscribers to replace them, boosting circulation by 400,000, often at highly discounted rates, according to a Post executive. (The executive spoke on condition of anonymity because the Post does not release circulation figures.)

Even so, there is broad consensus inside the Post that without Bezos' …