“I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. … I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

Open Windows- Ann Telnaes
Update: Washington Post cartoonist quits after paper rejects sketch of Bezos bowing to Trump. https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-trump-bezos-cartoonist-resigns-53928aadc4fb4dda8f35fd840b5717ac
Washington Post cartoonist quits after paper rejects sketch of Bezos bowing to Trump

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.

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@w7voa It was my last straw. I unsubscribed after 50 years.
@w7voa I have been relieved of any remaining twinges of guilt related to cancelling my #WaPo subscription. I feel terrible for the journalists still there.
@w7voa Nixing publication of the cartoon proves its point.
@w7voa
It's a pretty big deal that Jeff Bezos won't let the Washington Post cartoonist go after Bezos over the bribe he just paid to Trump imho.
@GreenFire @w7voa
Hope the cartoonist gets hired by The Atlantic, where some other ex-wapo folks have gone to. ( I subscribed yesterday).

@w7voa WTF!? We keep losing amazing, talented journalist to a bunch greedy fascists.

Yea, I used the 'F' word...

@julescelt01 @w7voa

Use it and keep using it. That's what they are.

@w7voa I'm sure the 'free speech absolutists' like Elon Musk will be suitably enraged by this.

@w7voa

Jeff Bezos is a coward or a collaborator. Either way, he should be shunned.

#BoycottWholeFoods #BoycottAmazon #JeffBezos

@DemocracyMattersALot @w7voa

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?

@DemocracyMattersALot @w7voa Why fall for misoginistic terms like that ?
@w7voa
I canceled my decades-long WaPo subscription after the Presidential-endorsement embarrassment. And my 9-year-old Prime/Amazon account after I returned everything still eligible. #cancelwapo #cancelprime #cancelbezos
@w7voa
#ALT4you :
Eine Karikatur, auf der auf einem hohen Podest in Ausschnitten (Bauch, lange Krawatte, kleine Hand) der Orangefarbene zu erahnen ist. Davor knien Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder und CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher und Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner, die Drump Geldsäcke entgegenstrecken.
Mickey Mouse ( the Walt Disney Company/ABC News) liegt bäuchlings vor der ersten Treppenstufe.
@elala @w7voa
Thank you for good alt-text summation
The only change I might suggest is replacing "lying prone" with the Chinese word kowtowing.
Not sure if German has that word but English uses it for "humiliating servitude"

@ThePiper @elala @w7voa

"Kotauen" bzw. "Kotau machen" is used in Germany, too. At least in northern Germany.

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Kotau

Kotau

Definition, Rechtschreibung, Synonyme und Grammatik von 'Kotau' auf Duden online nachschlagen. Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache.

Duden
@w7voa (Needs alt-text, like, badly.)
@w7voa Another reason I'm glad I cancelled my WaPo subscription
@w7voa Why Substack though? There are Nazi-unfriendly newsletter platforms that need our solidarity.

@w7voa

Protection money.

The mob made them an offer they could not refuse I guess…

@w7voa Just another reminder of why I'm glad I cancelled my subscription.
@w7voa They're pledging to this guy, right?

@w7voa

we will spread it around and the cartoon is right on
shame on WAPO

@w7voa For the benefit of those who don't remember this sad episode with Tom Toles, WaPo's previous Pulizer-winning cartoonist. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Toles#Controversy
Tom Toles - Wikipedia

@w7voa choosing to leave off the alt text on this particular post is sad, Steve

the cartoon shows Jeff bezos and other tech people like Zuckerberg offering bags of money to presumably Trump also Mickey mouse is groveling

#Alt4You

@w7voa My only regret is that I have but one Washington Post subscription to cancel for my country.
@w7voa It's just the start. His second or third target is the main stream media. You could sue, but with a packed supreme court waiting at the top to knock it down it wont do you much good, will it?
How long will it take y'all to take control of your own fate & fight back? This is only going one way, and everyone knows which way it is. The earlier you resist, the better your odds are of succeeding.

@Beggarmidas @w7voa

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.

@nceladean @w7voa That possibility ended november 6th. Democrats & left wingers in this country have forgotten how to fight. They spent the last three generations fooling themselves that they didn't need to anymore. That by sheer force of will, bandaids, bubblewrap, hugs & legislation they could pacify a savage world.
...It is a grievous error of judgement that will cost many of them their lives.
@nceladean @w7voa I don't know about 'radical' action, per se. That all too often is more grand gestures than sound strategy. But swift, certain, and brutally efficient/effective? Yes. The lefties have been the only ones playing by the rules now for ten years, and it's cost them dearly. As a wise old man once told me years ago "t'ain't no rules in a barfight besides 'win'".

@w7voa

This is really scary...we've crossed the Rubicon for sure.

@w7voa There’s a reason why I call it the Bezos Post.
@w7voa Has she ever depicted her boss in her cartoons before?
@w7voa The irony is that it’s banning has made its viewing more widespread. I would never have seen it if it hadn’t been banned.

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

„Finger weg von unserer Demokratie“: Habeck schießt nach Angriffen gegen Musk zurück

Wirtschaftsminister Habeck kritisiert Elon Musk scharf für dessen Eingriffe in den deutschen Wahlkampf. Die Kooperation mit Trump will Habeck dagegen …

Frankfurter Rundschau - Von: Babett Gumbrecht

@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!

@w7voa

A Hogarthian piece worthy of the Master of Gin Lane. I can see why it was killed. And why it shouldn't be.

@w7voa Wow, this is disturbing. The question is,, what are U.S. citizens going to do about it? I get quite a bit of an indifference or "I don't care" attitude and I wonder whether the USA will take a similar path to Putin's Russia.
@w7voa thanks for the toot! Could you add an alternative text to it?? 🙂
@w7voa - well thank you, I probably wouldn't have become aware of this cartoon otherwise :-/
@w7voa if I had been a political cartoonist for that long and never had a cartoon killed before, then I'd conclude that my cartoons were not saying anything interesting.

@w7voa

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.

@w7voa
One more candle in the darkness.
@w7voa But, but.... The mouse is out of copyright....
@w7voa
If there's going to be an image that captures the next few years, this might be it. It sure would make a good flag or t-shirt.
@w7voa
#Alt4You:
Draft of the cancelled cartoon showing Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company(as symbolised by Mickey Mouse)/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner praising and offering gifts to a big statue or person only seen from the neck down but easily identifiable as Trump
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

Open Windows- Ann Telnaes