Thursday, October 31, 2024

WaPo, carried w/o subscription wall, by SeattleTimes, puts losing 250,000 subscribers in a larger context.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/for-jeff-bezos-and-his-businesses-washington-d-c-has-become-more-important/

Worth reading. Consider, while losing subscribers, the coverage of WaPo declining to endorse, while the Harris piece had already been written, is more benefit to Harris than a vanilla endorsement would have been.

Bezos quells it, it grows in statute. Go figure.

And in cash terms, the subscriber loss is a minor hit to the empire. Bezos, beyond the paper, is shooting for the moon with Blue Origin.

So Harris gets more backhanded boost from a non-endorsement, Trump gets a non-endorsement, so what's the real world balance?

And, Trump/Vance could win. Scary. Many reasons Harris is a better choice, while constraining Trump is the main one. Trump wins, trade war impact on prices, etc.

I've voted, so let everybody else have their input, and chips fall as they shall.