I thought of canceling my subscription to The Washington Post when Jeff Bezos blocked the editorial board from endorsing Kamala Harris for President in 2024.
But I didn’t because there were so many writers whose work I appreciated, both opinion writers and news reporters. .
I have a special connection to The Washington Post.
I worked as a copyboy for The Post in the summer between my junior and senior years in college. It was a menial job but I loved it. It was a badge of honor (in my mind) to work there.
When my book The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Chiice Are Undermining Education was published, Valerie Strauss of The Post decided to give the book maximum exposure. First, she interviewed me for Book TV, then she wrote a glowing review.
I read The Post everyday and enjoyed the reporting, the editorials, and the opinions.
But now, it is impossible to remain a subscriber after Jeff Bezos cut the heart out of the paper. Since he realized how vengeful Trump is, he became Trump’s sycophant. He hired a Murdoch guy as publisher. He hired a conservative as editor. He fired 1/3 of the news writers. He laid off bureau chiefs all over the world. His focus now is politics and national security.
As one ex-staffer put it, he murdered The Post. What was once was a great liberal (but not leftwing) newspaper is now a conservative paper. No more investigative reporting if the kind that toppled Nixon. No more deeply researched reporting from other nations.
He cut the heart out of the newspaper I loved to read for decades.
Jeff Bezos left a loyal reader like me no alternative. I canceled. There are so many other sources of news today that I don’t need to read a newspaper that sold out its principles.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Me too!!!!Sent from my iPhone
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I have been a reader/subscriber since 1967 and dropped out in December 2025. Sad indeed… the murder of a great paper.
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Me too, a couple of months ago. They used to have great investigative reporting, but who knows now. The NYTimes still seems a good source, and there are many stimulating and informative podcasts and online news programs. I particularly rely on those with a back and forth of differing opinions like On Point.
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I have labored during the daylight hours ( as Bezos toiled in the dark voids of his vacuous brain ) to attempt a rationale for retaining my subscription, or, only God knows, why I would even renew. My senior college seminar in international politics consisted of examining “primary sources”, to wit, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde, NYT, The Times ( London ), Moscow News, Washington Post. My comprehension skills may have dimmed over time, but I recall vividly the landscape of international affairs– the wars, the economies, the elections, the scope of human cruelties inflicted upon the peoples we studied. Our capacity to evaluate world events was enhanced by the record contained in the pages of the Post and other sources. What we are now forced to examine are not news from foreign empires, whether coming or going, but rather the journalistic integrity and the trustworthiness of what is written. My decision, however
unsure of my defenses for it, is to keep the subscription. I will be able to read, to compare its reporting to other sources, to criticize, and to warn others of the failures I notice don’t comport with the world I see around me. I understand the choice of those who cancel the paper. I reserve the right to ultimately join them.
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