Washington Post cartoonist quits after Bezos satire is rejected

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Earlier DU thread: The Borowitz Report - Democracy Dies in Bezos

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Source: BBC

Washington Post cartoonist quits after Bezos satire is rejected

4 January 2025

Ana Faguy
BBC News, Washington

A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist has resigned from the Washington Post after the newspaper refused to publish a cartoon satirical of its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

Ann Telnaes, a long-time Washington Post cartoonist, created a cartoon of Mr Bezos and other tycoons kneeling before a statue of President-elect Donald Trump.

Ms Telnaes announced her resignation in a Substack post on Friday: "In all that time I've never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now."

David Shipley, the editorial page editor at the paper, said he decided not to run the cartoon in order to avoid repetition, not because it mocked the paper's owner.

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