‘A Disgrace’: Jeff Bezos’ ‘Fragile Ego’ Blamed for Washington Post Pulling Plug on Cartoon Showing Him Bowing Down to Donald Trump
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post quit her job last week after the newspaper killed a cartoon portraying its owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, bowing before a statue of President-elect Donald Trump.
Ann Telnaes, whose work has appeared in The Washington Post since 2008, shared a message on the platform Substack, describing the paper’s choice to pull her cartoon as a “game changer” and warning that its rejection by the opinion section editor had set a “dangerous” precedent “for a free press.”
“In all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at,” she wrote. “Until now.”
Jeff Bezos speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2024 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for The New York Times)
In the post, Telnaes shared a draft of the controversial drawing, which not only took aim at Jeff Bezos but also featured caricatures of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, and Mickey Mouse, the mascot of Walt Disney Co.
The cartoon depicts Bezos and the others kneeling, and...
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