Press cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced that she had resigned from the Washington Postdue to management's rejection of a caricature in which it criticized the daily's owner, Jeff Bezos, for seeking to “curry favors with Donald Trump”. 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 president of the United States.
The Bezos-Trump rapprochement outlined with a pencil
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 “restore” the media with legal action.
Designer 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 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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