I cancelled my WaPo subscription after Bezos personally intervened to block what to me seemed like an obvious endorsement of Harris and then scolded us all a few days later. No American should allow themselves to be scold by an oligarch without rebuke, and unsubscribing is the only way to do that.

Despite what the article says, it's pretty easy to decide that Bezos' direct and one step indirect decisions are what's driving WaPo downhill. Given the size of the comment sections on WaPo articles and opinions, it's difficult for me to believe that Bezos is doing these changes because of some surge of reader sentiment. Giving an intern a week in the comments, or doing some old school sentiment analysis of them would tell you that WaPo's news slant and fact checking slant were massively unpopular. This is another example of an oligarch's personal opinions pit in action that wreck an institution.

DC is in major need of a journalistic reboot. I predict a new-comer dominates in the next 3 years.

I'm not sure if Bezo's plan is outright sabotage of a venerable media outlet (how did we go from Bernstein and Woodward to the current editorial train wreck?), or if he got a new toy and never knew exactly what to do with it and we are just observing simple incompetence.