Illustrator Ann Telnaes has accused the Washington Post of censoring a cartoon in which she took aim at billionaire tech and media executives and their relationships with President-elect Donald Trump.
They argued that they were doing too many editorials about the same stuff… from a numbers perspective that might make sense, but if the news is what it is… 🤷
In case you don’t recognize them, the one on the pedestal is Trump and:
The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner
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Anyone got the sketch?
Its in her substack linked in the article. Honestly, THIS is what gets censored? Kind of lame.
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
They argued that they were doing too many editorials about the same stuff… from a numbers perspective that might make sense, but if the news is what it is… 🤷
Yeah, it’s just the headlines in the news… very lame.
Here’s the sketch.
I think by rejecting it, they just made it more visible.
In case you don’t recognize them, the one on the pedestal is Trump and: