Tweet on Washington Post subscriber cancelations

Unfathomable: Washpost has lost 200,000 subscribers since Bezos pulled the Harris endorsement. That's 8% of its base in a few days.

Keep in mind its net gain for most of 2024 was only 4,000 (not a typo) subscribers.

Major scoop via @davidfolkenflik https://t.co/ZLdj8GOnQg
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) October 28, 2024

The Baltimore Sun got rid of their features department

Terrible move

New ownership of The Baltimore Sun is living down to expectations. https://t.co/yIVUp71i5T
— Ron Cassie (@ron_cassie) October 28, 2024

The Guild’s stance is simple: if the Baltimore Sun isn’t covering culture, it isn’t covering Baltimore.

Readers outraged by these decisions can submit a pre-written letter to Baltimore Sun owners David Smith and Armstrong Williams: https://t.co/5oD4msgAE1
— Baltimore Sun Guild ☀️ (@baltsunguild) October 28, 2024

You can write the management of the Post about their cowardice

I did. Their actions are disgraceful.

CALL TO ACTION: Since last Friday, when management at the Washington Post ended presidential endorsements, readers have sent thousands of letters condemning the decision.

Help us reach our 10,000 letter goal to ensure management hears us loud and clear:https://t.co/khe8OmHhqF
— Washington-Baltimore News Guild (@WBNG32035) October 28, 2024

Tweets on the cowardly Los Angeles Times refusal to endorse a presidential candidate

When the @latimes makes news, we must cover our institution with the same scrutiny as we would any other. Here's @latguild member @RaineyTime on what's gone on this week at the @latimes: https://t.co/Tj3RqZtMbW
— L.A. Times Guild 🦅 (@latguild) October 26, 2024

Looks like the decision at the LA Times has also infected the news side.

In an open letter, LA Times Staff calls out owner/leadership:

"The L.A.Times, in contrast, has not published a single story as of Friday morning."

via @latguild https://t.co/gssLwjdFa2 pic.twitter.com/UyZmuwp2sM
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) October 25, 2024

Tonight, two more members of the @latimes editorial board, Robert Greene and Karin Klein, resigned—one day after their boss, editorials editor Mariel Garza, did so. https://t.co/ZVQwweEjP7
— Sewell Chan (@sewellchan) October 25, 2024

https://twitter.com/AmyKinLA/status/1849209551830069654

Meanwhile this Los Angeles Times news report about The Los Angeles Times' owner blocking the paper's endorsement of Kamala Harris and then refuting his daughter's claims about the decision is *wild.*

Rich people are messy AF. https://t.co/O0J7nwL9Sv pic.twitter.com/t8l8uBUr1O
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) October 26, 2024

Just canceled my subscription, @latimes. WTF is wrong with you?https://t.co/HZyKGcfnwz
— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) October 23, 2024

A statement from Los Angeles Times Guild leadership: pic.twitter.com/yjp1LkSW55
— L.A. Times Guild 🦅 (@latguild) October 24, 2024

https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1849957637494104521

Corned Beef Row photos from the 1940s and 1970s

Baltimore’s Corned Beef Row (1000 block of East Lombard St.) is in the area where Jewish settlers originally moved. There are still a couple of delis left – Attman’s and Weiss’s. I had heard the area called Jewtown so I guess they cleaned up the pejorative aspect of the name by renaming it Corned Beef Row.

I remember walking along Lombard St. in the 1970s and peering into a storefront where they had live chickens.

There are now two delis left on Lombard St. – Attman’s and Weiss’s. Attman’s looks like it did in the 1970s when I moved here. Look at the photos of old politicians in the inside pictures on Yelp.

At Attman’s, you go through a cafeteria-style line to order. You can eat in a small dining room.

Attman’s has a new location at Harbor Point. It’s very modern with a bar and waiters. It’s more expensive but the food is still excellent.

The other deli is the Weiss Deli Weiss’s has all the atmosphere of your high school cafeteria. See the Yelp photos. Unlike Attman’s, they are not on any delivery services as far as I can tell. The menu is much smaller but the food is good.

Lombard Street Before It Was Corned Beef Row

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Excellent article on the author of the “Snakes on a Plane” script

‘Snakes on a Plane’ Changed His Life. Then It All Fell Apart. https://t.co/GMeTLgLGcD
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 26, 2024

Tweets from Washington Post employees on the non-endorsement and cancellations

Statement on Washington Post’s refusal to endorse presidential candidate. pic.twitter.com/r8jrMPW5GR
— Carl Bernstein (@carlbernstein) October 26, 2024

The abortion-beat reporter for the Washington Post. Her own mother canceled https://t.co/KtToiKTpUX
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) October 26, 2024

Inside @washingtonpost's newsroom, which operates separately from the opinion department, "people who are thinking about the prospect of covering a second Trump presidency are concerned that the owner won't have our backs," a staffer tells me
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 26, 2024

To the dozens and dozens of readers who have reached out over the last 24 hours I am very sad to see you go but am touched more than I can say by your words and your loyalty. If I did not respond personally, it is because the volume has gotten out of hand. But I have read each…
— Jen "We aren't going back " Rubin 🥥🌴 (@JRubinBlogger) October 26, 2024

I sometimes share my #readermail on this site.
A different genre has arisen in the past 24 hours: a deluge of sad farewells from loyal readers. A few examples here. pic.twitter.com/Lk2Qe8np2T
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) October 26, 2024

Current list of WaPo opinion writers who have protested the owner's cowardly decision not to endorse. If this were actually a decision "of principle," they could have announced it two years ago. Instead of following the James Comey model of election-year timing.

Admiration to:… pic.twitter.com/0Zs8xETvRK
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) October 26, 2024

A friend who works for #WaPo marketing dept says there's a #WaPoMeltDown in their business unit following the news as digital subscriptions cancellations have hit 60k barely 8 hrs after decision not to endorse. Cancellation rate is unprecedented and we're barely 24 hours into it. pic.twitter.com/9qefA3TNKI
— Carlos (@TheMayaka) October 25, 2024

Scoop: Washington Post editor at large Robert Kagan confirms to me that he resigned from the Post following today's decision not to endorse in the presidential race. https://t.co/as86U0hYqh
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 25, 2024

The Washington Post's decision not to endorse in the presidential race is "an abandonment of the fundamental editorial convictions of the newspaper that we love." A statement from me and other longtime Post columnists: https://t.co/WmYamYmIEb
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) October 25, 2024

For The Post, the wrong choice at the worst possible time

Readers respond to The Post’s decision not to endorse Harris or Trump

Big credibility hit. Fist bump to @washingtonpost reporters who are fearlessly writing about @JeffBezos' 11th hour endorsement change, as w/ any powerful institution that needs to be held to account. @RoigFranzia Laura Wagner @MerylKornfield
Thank you for letting me share my… pic.twitter.com/lah20gg78A
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) October 26, 2024

More tweets on cowardly decisions by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times to not endorse a presidential candidate

They’re caving into Trump before he is even elected. Trump will perceive this as a weakness and punish them if he becomes president and they dare to criticize him. What these rich newspaper owners have done is shameful.

When I was an editor at the Chicago Tribune, I'd tell colleagues that our product wasn't ink on paper or words on an iPhone. It was credibility. That's what we were selling. Credibility.
To see the Washington Post flush away its credibility by kowtowing to Trumpism is crushing.
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) October 25, 2024

By deciding not to editorialize, @washingtonpost and @latimes are violating rule 1 of Timothy Snyder's warnings "On Tyranny."

1.
Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more…
— Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 25, 2024

Scoop: Washington Post editor at large Robert Kagan confirms to me that he resigned from the Post following today's decision not to endorse in the presidential race. https://t.co/as86U0hYqh
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 25, 2024

https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1849863145545924909

https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1849868579728130571

Another dead canary.

If you needed further evidence of how quickly the space for freedom of the press can shrink under autocratic-leaning political leadership.

And why a Trump administration 2.0 would be qualitatively different.https://t.co/9mzZ3OqCFX
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) October 25, 2024

—-> Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong have chosen to preemptively bend the knee to an autocratic wannabe, throwing their newspapers into turmoil and abdicating their responsibilities as media owners. https://t.co/WdR8Eejhph
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) October 25, 2024

Harris’s policies are more popular

Rampell: So yougov polled Americans on policies from both of the candidates and didn't tell the survey respondents whose policies were whose.. the general finding was that Kamala Harris’ agenda was head and shoulders much more popular than Trump's pic.twitter.com/f9OhkSlSLX
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 25, 2024

https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1849443288782131656

If you watch just one thing today, see this. A compelling explanation of the impact of Trump vs Harris economic policies on the overall economy and working families. 👇🏼 https://t.co/GgvOXRyKWJ
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) October 24, 2024

More tweets on the upcoming 2024 election fiasco

it’s gonna be ugly no matter what happens.

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1849854442721640730

https://twitter.com/opiniontoday/status/1849617568665043162?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1849563500433027440

https://twitter.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1848567663829651834

Sister Annette Marshall: “I’ve never heard us accused of fraud. … Or not existing.” The GOP barrage of imaginary voter fraud nonsense has very much begun: https://t.co/yetP68WLA5
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 25, 2024

Counting ballots takes time, and it’s not evidence of election fraud if a state doesn’t report a winner on election night. But some social media posts are already claiming without evidence that “the cheat has begun.” https://t.co/DQIoW1TygR
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 25, 2024