A Draft of the Cartoon in Question
Long time Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes
has resigned from the paper following their spiking her cartoon because it
was too mean to oligarchs.
Shown is Bezos, (Amazon) Zuckerberg, (Facebook)Altman, (OpenAI), Patrick Soon-Shiong, (LA Tiumes) and Mickey Mouse.
My guess is that it was NOT Mickey that the WaPo editorial board objected to.
Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said on Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
In a brief statement posted to Substack, Ms. Telnaes — who has worked at The Post since 2008 — called the newspaper’s decision to kill her cartoon a “game changer" that was “dangerous for a free press.”
“In all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at,” she wrote. “Until now.”
Ms. Telnaes included a draft of her cartoon in her Substack post. In addition to Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, the cartoon depicted Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg; Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive; Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of The Los Angeles Times; and Mickey Mouse, the corporate mascot of the Walt Disney Company.
The Washington Post OP/ED department, even with the absence of the late and unlamented Fred Hiatt, remains the 2nd worst editorial page in the nation.
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