WaPo staffer resigns after paper spikes cartoon that jabbed billionaires cozying to Trump [View all]

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WaPo staffer resigns after paper spikes cartoon that jabbed billionaires cozying to Trump

Matthew Chapman
January 3, 2025 10:03PM ET

https://www.rawstory.com/washington-post-trump-2670737013/

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"I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist," wrote Ann Telnaes. "I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations — and some differences — about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now."

The cartoon depicted a group of wealthy corporate executives making a religious-like offering of money to a hulking shrine of Trump.

"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," she noted.

"As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable," Telnaes concluded. "For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post. I doubt my decision will cause much of a stir and that it will be dismissed because I’m just a cartoonist. But I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, 'Democracy dies in darkness.'"

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Here is her substack: https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

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