What happened to all those subscriptions?
When people cancel their subscriptions to The Washington Post online, they arrive at a page offering a set of reasons for their decision. One of them is “Concerns about Washington Post content.”
It’s a popular destination since last Friday, as the newspaper has registered at least 250,000 subscription cancellations, or roughly 10 percent of its 2.5 million base. The “concerns” stem from an announcement from Post publisher William Lewis that the newspaper wouldn’t be endorsing a presidential candidate, effectively killing a pending endorsement of Kamala Harris.
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