Some Washington Post employees are irritated that editor Matt Murray won’t reveal how many subscriptions have been canceled since the newspaper’s “Democracy Dies in Darkness” refused to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.

Last week, the Post shocked liberals by announcing that it I would not support a candidate in the upcoming presidential election despite years of hostility toward former President Trump and support for Harris already written and ready for release. Outrage quickly spread when many liberal readers canceled their subscriptions and urged others to do the same.

Elahe Izadi, in-house journalist at the Post reported this week that 250,000 subscribers had canceled since “the decades-long practice of supporting presidential candidates” was abandoned. A Post spokeswoman declined to comment to the Post’s own reporter, which was printed in the Post’s report.

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As Izadi pointed out, “The Postal Service is a private company that generally does not share such data with the public,” but one current employee said his colleagues believe management should be more transparent.

“At a staff meeting earlier this week, Matt Murray was asked to confirm media reports about this number. He said he didn’t know them. I know some colleagues think it’s is a lie,” said a current staff member. Fox News Digital.

A second Washington Post employee didn’t go as far and suggested that Murray was simply implying that he didn’t want to check the numbers because he wanted to see how it all played out.

“Whether that is credible is another question. But he insisted in the meeting he wasn’t deliberately trying to find out because he wanted things to stabilize. He also mentioned that the elections would affect the numbers, the “People are terminating or adding (subscriptions) based on the results,” the second staffer told Fox News Digital.

The first employee said morale at the Post is questionable at best, given that there have been a plethora of problems since billionaire owner Jeff Bezos named William Lewis publisher and CEO at the end of the year latest, including a series of layoffs and a direct message on the newspaper. disastrous financial situation.

“We’re losing large amounts of money. Your audience has dropped by half in the last few years. People aren’t reading your stuff. That’s true. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore,” Lewis told staff earlier this year .

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Many Washington Post staffers expected the paper to support Vice President Kamala Harris. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Since then, Post journalists have been on alert, according to the employee.

“Our editor seems to not like us, so I think there’s an element of ‘Ugggg, here we go again,'” the Post staffer said.

“There is definitely a lot of sadness here,” they added. “People aren’t sure what to think about what just happened.”

Bezos wrote an op-ed defending the newspaper’s “policy decision” not to support a presidential candidate. He began his article Monday by citing a Gallup poll showing that Americans are losing trust in the media, falling even below Congress, telling readers: “Our profession is now the least trustworthy of all.” Something we are doing is clearly not working. »

Bezos denied there was any “quid pro quo” that motivated the decision and insisted that the meeting the head of his company Blue Origin had with former President Trump, which took place on day of the announcement, was an unfortunate coincidence, stating categorically: “There is no quid pro quo”. There is no connection between this and our decision on presidential endorsements, and any suggestion to the contrary is false. »

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Jeff Bezos attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Leon Bennett/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)

The staffer said Bezos has previously refrained from interfering in the newspaper’s journalism, and some are optimistic he will remain neutral, but others realize “you don’t go from zero interference to an actual story for no reason “. the logical reason has to do with money and Trump.

The staffer said many colleagues believe that if Bezos wants a more neutral newspaper, then the number of new subscribers who signed up for the Post expecting it to be nonpartisan should be available.

“How many submarines have we recovered? I don’t know of any,” they said.

The Post did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In 2016 and 2020, the Post enthusiastically supported Hillary Clinton and Biden against Trump. He called Trump “terrible” and “particularly unspeakable” in 2016. In 2020, it referred to Trump as “the worst president of modern times”.

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David Rutz of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.