The Washington Submit is in “disarray” after a long-term cartoonist on the paper give up, Axios reporter Alex Thompson mentioned Monday on CNN.
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes left the Submit following the paper’s rejection of her paintings, which options Amazon founder and Submit proprietor Jeff Bezos groveling to President-elect Trump.
“It exhibits what a distinct place the Washington Submit is compared to the primary Trump time period. The Washington Submit, truthfully, the primary Trump administration was rocket gas for the Washington Submit. Now you are seeing it type of in disarray. Not solely the choice to not endorse [in the 2024 presidential race] however now this. You‘ve had lots of people go away the Submit and I believe this Washington establishment is in a really completely different place,” Thompson mentioned.
Telnaes, who has labored as a cartoonist for the Washington Submit since 2008, introduced by way of Substack she was quitting after the paper killed her cartoon, which depicted Bezos and different unspecified rich businessmen kneeling down and holding up baggage of cash to the incoming president. Mickey Mouse is proven bowing all the way down to Trump on the ground subsequent to them.
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The Washington Submit’s cartoonist Ann Telnaes introduced she was quitting after they killed her cartoon. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Pictures)
Previous to Election Day, Bezos stopped the Washington Submit’s editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, inflicting a number of staffers to give up in protest.
On Monday, CNN contributor Brad Todd mentioned, “What could be actual braveness is, if she give up as a result of she had a conservative cartoon denied publication by her bosses, that will trigger actual braveness.”Â
“She’s going to be lionized by journalists in all places, she’ll get an award from Columbia for this,” he added. “When Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, all these folks had been giving cash to Joe Biden within the final administration, was that the topic of a cartoon? No it was not. It was not. That is an ideological downside. The Submit deserves it.”
CNN host Kasie Hunt mentioned earlier within the dialogue that the others pictured within the cartoon had been Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and the Los Angeles Instances proprietor Patrick Quickly-Shing, who additionally stopped his paper from endorsing a presidential candidate this cycle.
In her Substack article, “Why I’m Quitting the Washington Submit,” Telnaes mentioned, “I’ve had editorial suggestions and productive conversations—and a few variations—about cartoons I’ve submitted for publication, however in all that point I’ve by no means had a cartoon killed due to who or what I selected to purpose my pen at. Till now.”
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A CNN panel mentioned WaPo cartoonist Ann Telnaes’ cartoon that was killed by the Submit, and prompted her to give up the paper. (Screenshot/CNN/AnnTelnaes)
Telnaes defined her drawing, stating, “The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who’ve been doing their finest to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump.”
Telnaes’ Disney reference seems to be a dig on the firm being cited as an element behind ABC Information’ latest $15 million settlement with Trump earlier this month.Â
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In her Substack piece, Telnaes continued to proclaim her perception that the Submit squashed the cartoon due to its political level. She wrote, “To be clear, there have been cases the place sketches have been rejected or revisions requested, however by no means due to the standpoint inherent within the cartoon’s commentary. That’s a recreation changer…and harmful for a free press.”
Fox Information’ Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
