Ann Telnaes, press cartoonist, announced that she had resigned from the Washington Post, after management rejected a caricature criticizing Jeff Bezos. The designer shows the founder of Amazon on his knees handing a bag bearing the dollar sign to a statue representing the future American president.
Press cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced that she had resigned from the Washington Post, due to management’s rejection of a caricature in which she criticized the daily’s owner, Jeff Bezos, for seeking to “curry favors with Donald Trump” .
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The drawing, published Friday on the designer’s blog, shows the founder of Amazon on his knees handing a bag bearing the dollar sign to a statue representing the future American president.
The designer had “never had a drawing rejected”
In mid-December, Amazon donated $1 million to the organization fund for Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20. And Jeff Bezos recently made a trip to Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of the president-elect who promised to “straighten out” the media with legal action.
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Cartoonist for the Washington Post since 2008 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for press cartoons, Ann Telnaes explains in an article on her blog that she “never had a drawing rejected” because of the subject she had chosen to depict, “until ‘see you now’.
“The drawing that was suppressed criticizes the tech and media bosses and billionaires who do everything to curry favor with the president-elect,” she explains.
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In the drawing, Jeff Bezos is alongside Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg; from the boss of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, Sam Altman; and Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong. A little further on, a prostrate Mickey Mouse represents the Walt Disney Company, itself owner of ABC News.
For Trump, the media are “the enemies of the people”
ABC News agreed to pay $15 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by Donald Trump.
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Even before beginning his second term, the Republican signaled his intention to launch an avalanche of complaints against the media, which he calls “the enemies of the people.”
Many lawyers believe that many procedures will not succeed, but that they risk creating an effect of intimidation and potential self-censorship.
Jeff Bezos, who during Donald Trump’s first term opposed the Republican on defense contracts, had prevented the Washington Post before the November election from calling for a vote for Kamala Harris, while voting recommendations by editorial boards are a tradition in the United States.
