{"id":1768283,"date":"2022-12-08T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768283"},"modified":"2022-12-08T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:04:07","slug":"report-washington-post-lost-half-a-million-subscribers-since-biden-took-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-washington-post-lost-half-a-million-subscribers-since-biden-took-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Washington Post Lost Half a Million Subscribers Since Biden Took Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-washington-post-lost-half-a-million-subscribers-since-biden-took-office%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768283&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Trump was right. He was &#8216;the best thing to ever happen&#8217; to the Bezos-owned paper. <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 December 8, 2022 5:50 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Former president Donald Trump often <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/donald-trump-washington-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> he was &#8220;the best thing to ever happen&#8221; to the\u00a0<em>Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>and other mainstream news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>He was right.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/washington-post-considers-selling-tech-business-it-built-up-on-jeff-bezoss-watch-11670428112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that the Jeff Bezos-owned publication has lost 500,000 subscribers since Trump left office in January 2021, which amounts to a decline of roughly 20 percent. The <em>Post<\/em> is on track to lose money in 2022 after years of profitability. The <em>New York Times<\/em> reported in August that the <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s business has &#8220;stalled&#8221; since President Joe Biden was sworn in, and layoffs are being discussed amid management&#8217;s frustration with &#8220;numerous low performers in the newsroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump called it as early as December 2017, when he predicted that &#8220;newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I&#8217;m not there because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes.&#8221; The <em>Post<\/em> is hardly the only media outlet suffering in the post-Trump era. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/report-buzzfeed-to-layoff-12-of-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BuzzFeed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/business-work\/2022\/gannett-initiates-another-round-of-layoffs-cutting-its-news-division-by-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gannett<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/joe-biden-failed-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>\u00a0announced significant layoffs this month in an effort to cut costs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bottom line<\/strong>: Media outlets (and the anti-Trump grifters at the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/lincoln-project-showtime-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln Project<\/a>) stand to financially benefit if Trump wins the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. Assess their coverage of the GOP primary with this in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Donald Trump often said he was &#8220;the best thing to ever happen&#8221; to the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0and other mainstream news outlets.<br \/>\nThe post Report: Washington Post Lost Half a Million Subscribers Since Biden Took Office appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1768286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4092,3620,5987,5660,4899,3819,6265,4086],"class_list":["post-1768283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-beacon","tag-biden","tag-lost","tag-office","tag-post","tag-report","tag-subscribers","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1768286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}