Saturday, January 04, 2025

Reaction to Telnaes quitting WaPo

 Updates as they come in, marked *

Ann Telnaes Quits The Washington Post

January 3, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/01/03/ann-telnaes-quits-the-washington-post/

CSotD: Telnaes is only unemployed, not gone

January 4, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/01/04/csotd-telnaes-is-only-unemployed-not-gone/

For the record, the NYT fired its international cartoonist after a controversial cartoon, and has no cartoonists regularly appearing:

Washington Post Cartoonist Quits After Jeff Bezos Cartoon Is Killed

The cartoon, by Ann Telnaes, depicted the owner of The Post, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald Trump.

By Benjamin Mullin

 Jan. 3, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/business/media/washington-post-cartoonist-quits-after-jeff-bezos-cartoon-is-killed.html

Reactions from other editorial cartoonists: 

Bezo's Sacrifice

Clay Jones
Subscribe to Clay's Substack to read his excellent blog on this as well.

Bury the Press at Bended Knee: Reality Bites at The Post.
Steve Brodner
The Greater Quiet Jan 04, 2025
https://stevebrodner.substack.com/p/bury-the-press-at-bended-knee

From Keith Knight's newsletter: "Bravo to her for walking away from the Washington Post. She deserves everyone's support and admiration."
 

These stories have mostly the same content, and presented for the record:

Washington Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes Quits After Bezos-Owned Paper Kills Trump Satire Piece

"Trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press," the Pulitzer Prize winner says of her former employer

January 3, 2025
https://www.thewrap.com/washington-post-cartoonist-quits-after-bezos-trump-satire-killed/

Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper's refusal to publish cartoon critical of Jeff Bezos

Pulitzer prize winner Ann Telnaes drew a cartoon of the paper's owner kneeling before Donald Trump

Sat 4 Jan 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/04/washington-post-cartoonist-resigns-jeff-bezos

Washington Post cartoonist quits after paper pulls her cartoon depicting Post owner Bezos groveling to Trump

Cartoonist accused paper of squashing her drawing because it slammed Bezos, though the Post denied that was the motivation

 By Gabriel Hays Fox News
January 4, 2025

Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper's refusal to publish satirical cartoon of Bezos and Trump

By Jon Passantino and Brian Stelter, CNN
 January 4, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/media/washington-post-cartoonist-ann-telnaes-resigns-bezos/index.html

Washington Post cartoonist says editors axed cartoon depicting Trump, Bezos

by Sophia Vento - 01/04/25
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5067162-washington-post-cartoon-jeff-bezos-donald-trump/

Washington Post cartoonist quits after cartoon satirizing Jeff Bezos is rejected

"I've never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at," Ann Telnaes wrote. "Until now."

By Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing

01/04/2025

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/04/post-cartoonist-quits-bezos-00196483
 
 Jan. 5th updates:

Here's Sunday's updates. The NPR story has actual quotes from interviewing Ann: 

*A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed
AYESHA RASCOE and David Folkenflik
 Weekend Edition Sunday January 4, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/04/nx-s1-5248299/cartoonist-quits-wapo-over-bezos-trump-cartoon-washingtonpost
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2025/01/20250105_wesun_washington_post_cartoonist_resigns_over_her_cartoon_critical_of_jeff_bezos.mp3
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5248299
 
*Ann Telnaes, the Washington Post, and a childhood dream that still lives
About Ann Telnaes resigning from the Washington Post over a spiked cartoon
Darrin Bell
Darrin Bell's Disobey in Advance Jan 5 2025
https://darrinbell.substack.com/p/ann-telnaes-the-washington-post-and


*Hello darkness, my old friend: the Ann Telnaes resignation and the late, formerly great Washington Post
What a travesty.
Jack Ohman’s You Betcha!
Jan 4 2025
https://jackohman.substack.com/p/hello-darkness-my-old-friend-the


*Democracy Dies Like This
Nick Anderson
Pen Strokes
Jan 4 2025
https://nickanderson.substack.com/p/democracy-dies-like-this


*Silencing the Court Jesters.

10 years ago cartoonists were murdered for drawing offensive things. Things have not been getting better.

Jason Chatfield

Jan 5 2025

https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/silencing-the-court-jesters


*All the President's men
A cartoon in support of Ann Telnaes
Michael de Adder
THE deEP STATE  Jan 5 2025 https://deadder.substack.com/p/all-the-presidents-men
 
*Chris Britt for January 04, 2025
 
*In Solidarity with Ann Telnaes by Daniel Boris 
 
 Jan. 6th updates:
 
Cartoonists:

Anne has written another newsletter, and shows cartoons from Barry Blitt, Steve Brodner, Dave Whamond, and Emma Cook.

With gratitude: I am overwhelmed by the response
Ann Telnaes
Open Windows Jan 6 2025
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/with-gratitude

DD Degg and Mike Peterson have continued to cover the story at the Daily Cartoonist, and many of these links are from them.

Ann Telnaes, The Washington Post, and The Streisand Effect
D. D. Degg January 5, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/01/05/ann-telnaes-the-washington-post-and-the-streisand-effect/

*Chris Britt again on January 4th.

*Barry Blitt's Post on January 4th.

*James Mellor

 
*Billionaires Bow to Altar of Trump
Dave Whamond Jan 6, 2025
https://www.truthdig.com/cartoons/billionaires-bow-to-altar-of-trump/

*KAL
 
*Political Cartoonist Quashed For Expressing Political Views: More Than Democracy Dies in Darkness
by Rick Marschall
Yesterday's Papers January 4, 2025
http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2025/01/political-cartoonist-quashed-for.html
 
 Barbara Dale and Joe Sutliff sent cartoons directly to me.


 
Institutions: 

 Political cartoons are on the brink of extinction (and how you can help to prevent this)
Tjeerd Royaards, editor of Cartoon Movement
January 5, 2025
https://blog.cartoonmovement.com/2025/01/political-cartoons-are-on-the-brink-of-extinction-and-how-you-can-help-to-prevent-this.html

It's worth noting that Chappette was fired by the New York Times international edition over someone else's cartoon.

The Freedom Cartoonists Foundation in Geneva denounces the Washington Post’s spineless decision to drop a cartoon by its world-renowned cartoonist, Ann Telnaes – prompting her immediate departure.
Patrick Chappatte
January 5, 2025
 https://freedomcartoonists.com/the-freedom-cartoonists-foundation-in-geneva-denounces-the-washington-posts-spineless-decision-to-drop-a-cartoon-by-its-world-renowned-cartoonist-ann-telnaes-prompting-her-immediate-depar/
 
*A Statement on Ann Telnaes’ Resignation from the Post
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists January 4, 2025
https://editorialcartoonists.com/a-statement-on-ann-telnaes-resignation-from-the-post/
 
I respect Mike Peterson a lot, so here's 3 prose commentaries he recommended on The Daily Cartoonist:

Bowing the Knee. Again.The Wapo's Profile in Uncourage.
Charlie Sykes
To the Contrary Jan 05, 2025
https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/bowing-the-knee-again

A picture is worth a thousand words and $1 trillion
Steve Schmidt
The Warning with Steve Schmidt Jan 05, 2025
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-769

The War on Truth and Reality: The Power Brokers Shaping Reality
Olga Lautman
Jan 05, 2025
https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/the-war-on-truth-and-reality
 

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