‘I’ve Never Had A Cartoon Killed … Until Now’: WaPo Cartoonist Quits After Critical Sketch Pulled From Publication

Big Tech executives are bending the knee to Donald Trump and it’s no surprise why: Billionaires like Jeff Bezos like paying a lower tax rate than a public school teacher. pic.twitter.com/xv6e5dJVf4

Bezos wrote he took the position because such endorsements make media outlets come across as biased. “Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one,” he wrote, adding that “no quid pro quo of any kind is at work here.”

Several persons — including Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren — supported Telnaes and criticized the “broligarchy.”

The moguls had been “doing their best to curry favor with Trump,” according to Telnaes.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 4, 2025

Media outlets as public-facing entities ought to cultivate and their owners ought to safeguard free press, Telnaes added.

.@AnnTelnaes resigned after the Washington Post editorial page killed her cartoon. It’s worth a share.

Longtime Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit her job at the paper after it declined to publish a cartoon of hers satirizing its billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos.

“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now,” Telnaes said.

Telnaes indicated she was not opposed to editorial criticism and that she had had “productive conversations” about her previous work. The editorial feedback had never been because of “the point of view inherent in the cartoon’s commentary. That’s a game changer…and dangerous for a free press,” she wrote.

“Not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force,” Shipley said, according to Fox News. “My decision was guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column — this one a satire — for publication. The only bias was against repetition.”

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