Cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from the Washington Post after it refused to publish a cartoon satirizing its owner, Jeff Bezos.
Cartoonist accused paper of squashing her drawing because it slammed Bezos, though the Post denied that was the motivation.
The Post’s opinions editor, David Shipley, said in a statement that he disagreed with “her interpretation of events” and that his decision was “guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column — this one a satire — for publication. The only bias was against repetition.”
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It was February 2017 when the Washington Post unveiled its new banner “Democracy Dies in the Darkness.” The implication was Bezos and his newspaper were committed to holding Washington accountable, including the newly inaugurated president.
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