US cartoonist quits Washington Post over Trump, Bezos sketch – DW – 01/04/2025
US cartoonist quits Washington Post over Trump, Bezos sketch – DW – 01/04/2025
Illustrator Ann Telnaes has accused the Washington Post of censoring a cartoon in which she took aim at billionaire tech and media executives and their relationships with President-elect Donald Trump.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/51762853
Anyone got the sketch?
In case you don't recognize them, the one on the pedestal is Trump and:
The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner
I think by rejecting it, they just made it more visible.
Its in her substack linked in the article. Honestly, THIS is what gets censored? Kind of lame.
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
They argued that they were doing too many editorials about the same stuff... from a numbers perspective that might make sense, but if the news is what it is... 🤷
Yeah, it’s just the headlines in the news… very lame.
