Longtime Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit her job at the paper after it declined to publish a cartoon of hers satirizing its billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos.
Telnaes, hired in 2008, cited free speech concerns when the Post dropped her cartoon criticizing recent perceived relationships between tech and media moguls and President-elect Donald Trump, according to a Substack post of hers published Friday.
“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now,” Telnaes said.
The cartoon depicted Bezos, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong and Mickey Mouse representing the Walt Disney Company and media outlet ABC News bending the knee and offering money to a likeness of Trump. (RELATED: Major Media Outlet Forced To Pay $15,000,000 To Trump)
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