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

Last week, the Post upset liberals when it announced this would not endorse a candidate in the upcoming presidential election, despite years of hostility toward former President Trump and Harris’s reported endorsement, already drafted and ready for publication. Outrage quickly poured in as many liberal readers canceled their subscriptions and urged others to do the same.

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

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As Izadi noted, “The Post is a private company that typically doesn’t share this kind of data with the public,” but one current employee said colleagues believe management should be more transparent.

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

A second Washington Post staffer didn’t go so far and suggested that Murray simply suggested he didn’t want to check the numbers because he wanted to see how it all shook out.

“Whether it is credible is another question. But he insisted on the meeting which he purposely did not seek to know about because he wanted things to settle down. He also mentioned that the election will affect the numbers, with people ending or adding (subscriptions) depending on the results,” the second employee told Fox News Digital.

The first employee said morale at the Post is questionable at best, given that there have been plenty of problems since billionaire owner Jeff Bezos named William Lewis editor and CEO late last year, including a round of layoffs and a clear message about the paper. serious financial situation.

“We’re losing huge amounts of money. Your audience has halved in the last few years. People aren’t reading your stuff. Right. I can’t wrap it up anymore,” Lewis told employees earlier this year.

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

According to the employee, Post reporters have since bowed out.

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

“There’s definitely a lot of sadness here,” they added. “People don’t feel sure what to make of what just happened.”

Bezos wrote an op-ed defending the paper’s “principled decision” not to endorse a presidential candidate. He began the piece Monday by citing a Gallup poll showing that Americans are losing trust in the media, coming in just below Congress, telling readers “Our job is now the least trusted of all. Something we’re doing is clearly not working.”

Bezos denied there was any “quid pro quo” that motivated the decision and insisted the meeting his Blue Origin boss had with former President Trump on the day of the announcement was an unfortunate coincidence. flatly saying “There is no connection between this and our decision on presidential approvals and any suggestion is false.”

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The employee said Bezos has previously refrained from meddling in the paper’s journalism, and some are optimistic he will stay hands-off, but others realize “you don’t go from zero meddling to pulling a real piece for no reason,” and the only the logical reason is money and Trump.

The employee said many colleagues felt that if Bezos wanted a more neutral paper, then the number of new subscribers who signed up to the Post hoping it would be nonpartisan should be available.

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

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

In 2016 and 2020, the Post enthusiastically endorsed Hillary Clinton and Biden against Trump. He called Trump “terrible” and “uniquely unqualified” in 2016. In 2020, he was referring to Trump as “the worst president of modern times.”

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Fox News Digital’s David Rutz contributed to this report.