President-elect Donald J. Trump shows no sign of dropping his media beef in a post–Election Day context.

Trump took to Twitter early Wednesday in an effort to discredit a critical story in “the failing” New York Times on Trump, his transition team and their course to assuming power.

Clashing with what Trump has called the “dishonest” and “rigged” media was a cornerstone of his campaign. And it now looks as if the anti-media crusade will continue.

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Oddly enough, however, Trump’s war on the media has actually increased public support for the fourth estate. On Sunday, the New York Times responded to a Trump tweet claiming the newspaper is losing thousands of subscribers:

Donald Trump’s press team did not respond to a request for comment.

From Election Day through the end of last week, the Times said it saw a substantial uptick in subscriptions, according to a New York Times spokesman. And when accounting for cancellations and new subscriptions, print and digital subscriptions were up at four times the normal rate.

In the New York Times Co.’s NYT, -2.64% third-quarter earnings, the company said it had 2.6 million paid print and digital subscribers.

The surge in subscriptions during the election and following Trump’s win is being repeated elsewhere. The Washington Post, which had been lauded for its coverage during the campaign, said it had a record traffic month in October, with a surge in readers looking for political coverage.

John Oliver, during his most recent episode of “Last Week Tonight,” urged viewers to “support actual journalism” by subscribing to outlets like the Times and Washington Post and donating to nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica. As Nieman Lab has pointed out, at least two former ProPublica staffers now work on “Last Week Tonight.”

ProPublica President Richard Tofel told MarketWatch that the increase in donations since the election has been “very considerable.” The outlet has garnered more than $250,000 in one-time credit-card donations, compared with $300,000 across all of its collection methods for all of last year.

“We’re still in the middle of processing it, and they’re still coming in. We’re averaging one gift per minute,” Tofel said. “A lot of people, in response to the election, feel the need to take civic action. A fair number are doing so by supporting a vigorous press, and we’re honored.”

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To be sure, there was a lot of criticism of the media during the 2016 election cycle, with charges ranging from what was characterized by some as a condescending dismissal of Trump’s middle-America supporters to the amount of free television airtime given to Trump and his rallies. And then there was the inaccurate polling. From the media’s coverage of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, there emerged a widely held belief that she was being held to a higher standard, and that the media were treating her private server and email-related issues as equivalent to Trump’s taxes and his comments about women to Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood.”

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Trump was not shy about voicing his unhappiness with the news business: “If I become president, oh do they have problems,” he said during a February press conference. “I’m going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposefully negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.”

Some news organizations have acknowledged the criticism and pledged to do better.

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In an effort to instill confidence in readers, New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger and Executive Editor Dean Baquet wrote: “We aim to rededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism. That is to report America and the world honestly, without fear or favor. ... It is also to hold power to account, impartially and unflinchingly.”

Tofel said he doesn’t expect ProPublica’s coverage to change at all.

“At ProPublica we do accountability and investigative journalism, and we plan to continue that during the next administration, as we did with the current administration,” he said.