Press cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced that she had resigned from Washington Postdue to management’s rejection of a caricature in which it criticized the daily’s owner, Jeff Bezos, for seeking to ” curry favor 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 Donald Trump. In mid-December, Amazon donated one million dollars to the organization fund for the inauguration of the president-elect on January 20. And Jeff Bezos recently made a trip to Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of the Republican who promised to “ to sort out » the media with legal proceedings.
Designer for the Washington Post since 2008 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for press cartoons, Ann Telnaes explains in an article on his blog not have “ never had a design rejected » because of the subject matter she had chosen to depict, “ until now ». « The cartoon that was suppressed criticizes the tech and media bosses and billionaires who are doing everything to curry favor with the president-elect “, she explains.
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