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Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes quits over a canceled Jeff Bezos cartoon.
Telnaes writes on Substack that the outlet killed her cartoon of Bezos and others kneeling before a Trump statue over its commentary’s point of view, a first for her since starting there in 2008. She writes:
...my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post.
Post opinions editor David Shipley disagreed, blaming his decision on recent and scheduled Post coverage of the same subject and a “bias ... against repetition,” according to The New York Times.
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