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Right wing news is popular in America, I don’t think this could be the main reason why they had such steep declines.
by edmundsauto 2y ago
Right wing news is popular in America, I don’t think this could be the main reason why they had such steep declines.
- sarchertech 2y agoIt could be. If their reputation changed slower than their content.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoIf you start out being popular among people who prefer one approach to reporting and opinion, and unpopular among people who prefer something entirely different, and then you incrementally move away from what you used to do, at the same time as the second group of people have plenty of other options to choose from ... this is precisely what you'd expect. WaPo was viewed as a liberal, slightly left-of-center newspaper that did excellent investigative reporting. It therefore was all but ignored by those whose preferred version of the news is presented by e.g. FOX News. As it has taken some subtle and some not-so-subtle steps to move away from its reputation, that has done nothing to encourage FOX News viewers to read it, and a lot to discourage its former audience from continuing to do so. So one "side" has declined, and the other "side" has no reason to increase.
- unethical_ban 2y agoRight wing media is popular. Right wing news is a niche. See the WSJ and National Review, now WaPo. Not much other news.
- starkparker 2y agoWaPo dropped 10% of its subscriber base in just the one week after the endorsement debacle in October. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/29/washington-post-subscriber-cancellations https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/29/washington-pos...
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