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More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

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[–] [email protected] 154 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

To anyone unsubscribing: Remember to subscribe somewhere else instead. If not you're just helping Bezos achieve his goal of the death of journalism.

@[email protected] is one good alternative.

As others have said, if you want to hurt Bezos, target Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Most of the web runs on AWS good luck avoiding Amazon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Just about a third anyhow. Remember the great fiasco where an engineer was turning off one server and mistakenly turned them alll off and Facebbok etc was down for 6 hours? Like a goddamn dream... a wonderful place.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

404 media seems nice

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This was the straw that finally got my wife to agree to let me cancel prime. I wanted to as soon as add were added to video. Sadly it auto renewed on the 10th of Oct :(

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

This exact thing happened to me. I cancelled anyway and they refunded most of the subscription fee. Just do it. Wish i could have told them why I was cancelling.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

My favorite news source is Democracy Now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Like setting fire to the Amazon and stuff?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

As a species we're clearly doing our very best

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

And here's their site: https://www.propublica.org/

Some reasons I think they're neat:

  1. They broke the Justice Thomas corruption scandal
  2. Generally high level investigative journalism
  3. They're free and donation based, not subscription based
  4. No bullshit, just journalism
  5. They take an active interest in the Fediverse - it seems they're willing to meet me where I am.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Al Jazeera for me, bby