Op-Ed Sections, Threat or Menace?

You can do monthly or yearly subscriptions. When I canceled my Post subscription yesterday, I had the option of it just not renewing at the end of the yearlong subscription or stopping right away. I chose right away. Did the same for Amazon Prime.

 

Probably not any of that, and some people will probably go back to the Post again at some point in the future. But the reality is, there are very few ways to make a tangible statement of dissatisfaction with a newspaper. People are doing what they can right now. And 250,000+ cancelled subscriptions is quite a statement, particularly for a paper of the quality and reputation of the Washington Post.

 

David Simon - like me - sounds skeptical of the Bezos (non)apologia because of the convenient timing. It plays a lot more like obedience-in-advance than it does some latebreaking principled stand on the value of endorsements.

I guess I'm not sure what celebrities have to do with anything. Why not ask the 250,000 people who cancelled their subscriptions what they expect to achieve by it?