BREAKING NEWS: Jeff Bezos reportedly opted to block the newspaper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris….

BREAKING NEWS: Jeff Bezos reportedly opted to block the newspaper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris..

WaPo Loses Eye-Popping 200,000 Subscribers in Exodus That ‘Will Batter’ the Paper, Says NPR Reporter.

The Washington Post lost more than 200,000 subscribers this week after owner Jeff Bezos reportedly opted to block the newspaper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Citing two people with knowledge of the situation, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik reported on Monday that more than 200,000 subscribers – around 8% of the newspaper’s total subscriptions – had dropped the newspaper, with the number continuing to grow after a planned endorsement of Harris was spiked.

“It’s extraordinary. In the three days since we first wrote about the decision by owner Jeff Bezos to block a planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris by the Post’s editorial board, you’ve seen a series of resignations,” Folkenflik told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Monday. “Two columnists resigned, two editorial writers resigned, and we’ve also seen this sort of revulsion or outcry on social media. Well, it turns out to be real that over 200,000 people have canceled subscriptions to the Washington Post in just three days and that figure is rising.”

Folkenflik continued:

It’s an astonishing reaction. You know, usually you see a protest like this rise to the level of a few hundred or at times, in a moment of great outcry, to a few thousand. This is, of course, 100 times greater and it’s something that really will batter that newsroom and it’s morale after a series of deflating moves, not least of which because that newsroom has been involved in covering so many instances of wrongdoing and alleged illegalities by former President Trump and his circle of associates.

But also that editorial page, which is run separately, has made such a clarion call of the idea that Trump is himself a threat to the American democratic experiment. And yet here they are, just days before this election, saying, “We’re not going to make an endorsement at all.”

Semafor media editor Max Tani reported on Monday that the LA Times also lost more than 7,000 subscribers after they opted against an endorsement of Vice President Harris.

While the Washington Post opted not to endorse Harris for president, its humor columnist, Alexandra Petri, did endorse Harris in an article titled, “It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president.”