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More than 250,000 subscribers have left 'Washington Post' over withheld endorsement

Subscribers keep deserting The Washington Post after it announced it would not endorse any candidate in the race for the White House.

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David Folkenflik was described by Geraldo Rivera of Fox News as "a really weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty-palmed reporter." Others have been kinder. The Columbia Journalism Review, for example, once gave him a "laurel" for reporting that immediately led the U.S. military to institute safety measures for journalists in Baghdad.