What’s going on here is that once Bezos started interfering with political coverage to benefit Trump, a lot of subscribers canceled their Washington Post subscriptions, so both they and a lot of the writers need to pick a new publication.
I’ll note that The Atlantic also does gift links — and they’re waay better than the Washington Post ones, since those started to require registration to access about six months back.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Atlantic has always been a magazine steeped in spooks and neocon hawks. Anyone who spills over from the WaPo will likely be the faction of conservative pundits and talking heads more fixated on the deteriorating state of US national security than the deregulatory/tax-cut corporate bonanza Trump seems invested in delivering.
But when you’re as big as Amazon, they all end up working for you in the end. Bezos needs the lucrative government contracts to prop up his retail monopoly with limitless spending on AWS resources. He also needs the anti-labor hatchet men, the deeply discounted H1-B visa tech workers, and the USPS privatization that lets the retail end of his business stay in the black.
The Atlantic will make for a better rhetorical outlet than the WaPo on war hawking and fearmongering. But the WaPo will remain the place you go to read about how AI is going to automate all your jobs away, DOGE is going to make America great again, and one more big tax cut will boost our economy to the moon.