In February 2017, for the first time in its long history, the Washington Post adopted an official slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” The motto was a little bit much. Pompous and self-important, it sounded as if the newspaper was really trying to say Without the Washington Post,

Jeff Bezos knocked a yet another hole in the Washington Post's finances this week, as the paper has lost 75,000 digital subscriptions in the 2 days since the billionaire commanded its opinion section to exclusively promote his right wing views.