Washington:
An award-winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post has introduced her resignation after a cartoon depicting the newspaper’s billionaire proprietor grovelling earlier than Donald Trump was rejected.
Ann Telnaes posted on Substack late Friday that this was the primary time she “had a cartoon killed due to who or what I selected to goal my pen at.”
The cartoon — which she included in her submit — depicts Amazon founder and Washington Post proprietor Jeff Bezos, in addition to Facebook and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and different media and tech moguls, kneeling and holding up baggage of cash earlier than an enormous Trump.
Also proven is a prostrated Mickey Mouse, the image of the Disney Company, which owns ABC News. The tv community not too long ago reached a $15 million settlement with Trump after he sued for defamation over reporting on his sexual abuse trial in New York.
Telnaes wrote that whereas earlier sketches of hers had been rejected, this was the primary time that had occurred due to her “perspective.”
“That’s a sport changer… and harmful for a free press,” she stated.
The Washington Post, whose slogan is “democracy dies in darkness,” stated Telnaes’s work had not been rejected because of any “malign pressure.”
“We had simply printed a column on the identical matter because the cartoon and had already scheduled one other column — this one a satire — for publication,” editorial web page editor David Shipley stated in a press release. “The solely bias was towards repetition.”
The US media aggressively lined Trump’s chaotic first time period, which included two impeachments and ended along with his refusal to acknowledge defeat within the 2020 election — culminating with a mob of his supporters storming Congress.
As Trump prepares for his January 20 inauguration, after having defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in November, there are indicators that prime CEOs, together with within the media, are keen to construct good relations.
A stream of senior moguls, from Apple CEO Tim Cook to Bezos Zuckerberg, have travelled to satisfy Trump at his Florida property.
Elon Musk, proprietor of influential social media platform X and the world’s richest individual, is without doubt one of the president-elect’s closest advisors.
Amazon and Meta have each introduced $1 million donations to Trump’s inauguration fund, as reportedly has Apple’s Cook in a private capability.
Bezos induced a stir simply forward of the presidential election when he broke with years of custom and dominated towards the Post endorsing a candidate.
Telnaes, who has gained the Pulitzer Prize and different awards for her work, had labored for the Post since 2008.
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