Don’t Cancel The Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime.

Jeff Bezos

The Atlantic

Don’t Cancel The Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime.

The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.

Sure, cancel Prime if you’d like to send another message, but your Prime cancellation is a drop in the bucket. Cancel your WaPo subscription not because you want journalists to be fired but because the institution that is the newspaper is broken and should be re-thought outside the influence of a plutocrat.

Sidenote: this feels like the infamous editorial firewall should apply in reverse. A subscription is a business decision.