ALBAWABA - Cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who has been working for a long time in The Washington Post, has resigned after the newspaper rejected to publish her
It appears that another high-profile member of The Washington Post’s editorial staff has left the paper: Cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who’s been with the paper 16 years, announced via Substack Friday that she was quitting after the brass killed her latest illustration featuring president-elect Donald Trump.
Trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press,” the Pulitzer Prize winner says of her former employer The post Washington Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes Quits After Bezos-Owned Paper Kills Trump Satire Piece appeared first on TheWrap.
Ann Telnaes said that this was the first time she “had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at.” Read more at straitstimes.com.
The cartoon, by Ann Telnaes, depicted the owner of The Post, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald Trump.
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A cartoonist has decided to quit her job at the Washington Post after an editor rejected her sketch of the newspaper’s owner and other media executives bowing before President-elect Donald 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
The cartoonist said it was the first time her work was censored due to its point of view, prompting her decision to leave