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TheRickles

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10. 60k sounds like a big loss, but the total number of digital subscribers to WaPo is 2.5M.

Sun Mar 15, 2026, 07:33 AM

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So that's a loss of about 2%, not enough to have much of an impact, unfortunately.

A side note, neither this DU summary nor the Mediaite article did this quick bit of internet sleuthing to find the number that puts this loss in context. Perhaps the original NYT article does this, but I don't subscribe so I can't look it up. Overall, there's a decline in numeracy afoot in the US, as so often numbers are tossed around without any way to compare stats - in the sports pages, in essays about the economy, political polling, etc. I confess to being a bit of a math nerd, but this is just a matter of basic arithmetic, not calculus.

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60k sounds like a big loss, but the total number of digital subscribers to WaPo is 2.5M. TheRickles Yesterday #10

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