A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed

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  • Seshmeister
    ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

    • Oct 2003
    • 35582

    A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed

    These tech bros millionaires are so full of shit with their pretend 'free speech' bullshit. None of them would last a week as a moderator or webmaster on this forum. Fact checking is not a threat to free speech, the few power hungry greedy super rich assholes who own most online media these days are though.




    A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Washington Post has resigned after its editorial page editor rejected a cartoon she created to mock media and tech titans abasing themselves before President-elect Donald Trump.

    Among the corporate chiefs depicted by Ann Telnaes was Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos. The episode follows Bezos' decision in October to block publication of a planned endorsement of Vice President Harris over Trump in the waning days of last year's presidential elections.

    The inspiration for Telnaes' latest proposed cartoon was the trek by top tech chief executives including Bezos to Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, as well as the seven-figure contributions several promised to make toward his inauguration. She submitted a sketch before Christmas. It was never published.

    "I'm very used to being edited," Telnaes tells NPR. "I've never ever, since I've worked for the Post in 2008, been not allowed to comment on certain topics by having cartoons being killed."

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    Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

  • Terry
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Jan 2004
    • 12108

    #2
    The irony being that had the cartoon ran it would have been completely forgotten by the next day.

    But even this controversy isn't going to have much by way of legs or staying power.
    Scramby eggs and bacon.

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    • Seshmeister
      ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

      • Oct 2003
      • 35582

      #3
      It's not like it was especially clever


      I preferred this one in Private Eye...


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      • Nitro Express
        DIAMOND STATUS
        • Aug 2004
        • 32940

        #4
        Even before the internet the rich were buying up local newspapers, television stations and radio stations.
        No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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