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No way it will make up for the loss in advertising revenues and subscriptions.

And this is going to lose them quite a few subscriptions, I imagine.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 at 12:55:15 PM EST
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Reader exercise: how many lost subscriptions per successful lobby deal?
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 at 03:39:07 PM EST
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At the low end, they'd have to lose a little over 400 subscriptions to wipe out the winnings on one of the "bargain-basement" lobbying deals.  About 4,000 for the top-end one.

But if you lose (say) 20,000 readers, your advertisers aren't going to be pleased.

Not sure how many they'll wind up losing, and it'd probably be tough to tell anyway, because the WaPo's been hot no the heels of the NYT in terms of increasing suckitude, financially.

(shrug) I can tell ya they won't be getting me back.  My subscription ran out a while ago, and since then it's gone from really stupid Village rag to foaming-at-the-mouth neocon psychosis.  Now it's foaming-at-the-mouth neocon psychosis (with added corruption!).

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 at 05:16:46 PM EST
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