Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigns from The Washington Post after her cartoon depicting Bezos and other billionaires supporting Trump is censored. This act of 'premature capitulation' raises concerns about the growing influence of corporate money on media and the chilling effect on free speech.
Published: Jan. 08, 2025, 6:00 a.m. As a show of solidarity with Ann Telnaes’ brave and sadly necessary decision to resign from The Washington Post, editorial cartoonists around the country are drawing their versions of Ann’s unfinished draft cartoon and posting them with the hash tag #WeStandWithAnn.That’s the motto The Washington Post adopted shortly after Donald Trump became president the first time.
It seemed necessary then, and even more important now that the wannabe tyrant is frothing at the mouth for his second term. In a frightening, cowardly act of premature capitulation, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and several other corporate billionaire media moguls have already bowed before their savior and showered him with money, greasing the skids for a Trump authoritarian oligarchy. Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes has been an icon with The Post since 2008. She resigned last Friday after her cartoon rough depicting this scene featuring Bezos was killed.in 2008, been not allowed to comment on certain topics by having cartoons being killed.” “We have to have the freedom to say what we want to say,” Telnaes adds. “We are visual opinion makers.” Along with Bezos, Telnaes depicted Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman shown bringing Trump sacks of cash.owner and billionaire medical innovator Patrick Soon-Shiong was shown bearing a tube of lipstick. Mickey Mouse --- representing the Walt Disney Co. --- is depicted lying prostate. Last month, Disney settled a Trump defamation suit against ABC News byAssociation of American Editorial Cartoonists:, corporate billionaires once again have brought an editorial cartoon to life with their craven censorship in bowing to a wannabe tyran
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