Deterioration of the Washington Post’s subscriber base continued on Tuesday, hours after its proprietor, Jeff Bezos, defended the decision to forgo formally endorsing a presidential candidate as part of an effort to restore trust in the media.

The publication has now shed 250,000 subscribers, or 10% of the 2.5 million customers it had before the decision was made public on Friday, according to the NPR reporter David Folkenflik.

A day earlier, 200,000 had left according to the same outlet.

The numbers are based on the number of cancellation emails that have been sent out, according to a source at the paper, though the subscriber dashboard is no longer viewable to employees.

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    To him, I’m sure it’s an acceptable loss.

    If Amazon Prime and AWS cancellations hit a significant level over this, that would have more of an impact.

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      Yup, he’ll lose more revenue than those 10% WaPo subscribers under Harris. If Harris raises Amazon’s taxes half a percent, this loss would become rounding error. Bezos wants Trump to win and wants to be Trump’s friend for his own financial gain.

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        What drives someone with as much as Bezos to still want the high score to keep going up? This motherfucker should have to spend a month in a tent city.

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          You don’t become a billionaire by thinking of others. It’s such a mind-boggling amount of hoarded wealth that most of us can’t even properly comprehend it…