A Washington Post cartoonist says she has decided to quit after editors rejected her sketch of the newspaper's owner and other media executives bowing to President-elect Donald Trump. Ann Telnaes posted a message Friday on the online platform Substack saying that she drew a cartoon showing a group of media executives including Post owner Jeff Bezos bowing to Trump while offering him bags of money. Telnaes said the companies have been trying to persuade Trump to eliminate regulations. She said the cartoon was rejected, the first time she's ever had a cartoon killed because of its inherent messaging. She said such a move is dangerous for the free press.
@w7voa WTF!? We keep losing amazing, talented journalist to a bunch greedy fascists.
Yea, I used the 'F' word...
Use it and keep using it. That's what they are.
Jeff Bezos is a coward or a collaborator. Either way, he should be shunned.
I've been a zealous defender of paying for quality media and a subscriber to the #WashingtonPost for years.
But as soon as Bezos killed the #Harris endorsement, I can cancelled my subscription. Musk has proven that nothing users do can influence an unethical owner.
Kudos to Ann Telnaes, and others, who abandon #WaPo to defend their principles. Everyone who works there will be tested at some point. Who else will do what's right?
"Kotauen" bzw. "Kotau machen" is used in Germany, too. At least in northern Germany.
we will spread it around and the cartoon is right on
shame on WAPO
People who still think it's possible to resolve these sorts of problems by working "within" the system are fooling themselves.
Nothing short of radical action is needed to combat this cancer.
This is really scary...we've crossed the Rubicon for sure.
Washington Post canceled Cartoon, der die Unterwürfigkeit der US-Oligarchen - inkl. Besitzer der Washington Post - gegenüber Trump kritisiert.
Wie man mit Medienkontrolle Demokratie angreift und sabotiert, können wir innerhalb Europa und auch innerhalb Deutschlands sehen - nicht nur in unserer Geschichte auch in der Gegenwart.
Die Oligarchen bauen sich ihre Staatsverwalter auf. Musk und Döpfner wollen den Faschismus. Keine deutsche Partei scheint vorbereitet. Außer die AfD, die profitiert.
Aber vielleicht nehmen zumindest einige Parteien die Bedrohung durch westliche Oligarchen wahr und beginnen dagegen anzugehen.
Hebeck wird gegenüber Musk deutlich:
https://flipboard.com/@fr_de/politik-03cgi98lz/-/a-4XDp-y-ASQm6ksUIOlv80w%3Aa%3A3694312255-%2F0
@thijs_lucas Hinzu kommen absurde Ideen was #Preseefreiheit abgeht, wehalb @fragdenstaat ja sogar ihr Zeugs haben drucken lassen, weil reaktionäre Denker unwillens sind dieselben #Freiheit|en und #Rechte für #Online-Medien anzuerkennen wie für #Altmedien.
#Altverleger|n wie ihm hätte, wie allen.anderen #NS-Kollaborateuren, lebenslang Medien- und Amtstätigkeiten verbiten werden müssen!
A Hogarthian piece worthy of the Master of Gin Lane. I can see why it was killed. And why it shouldn't be.
@w7voa this reminds me this
Not the slightest bit surprised that the #FascistPost doesn't accept cartoons aimed at fascists.
Looking forward to her cartoons aiming at the Fascist Post.