ALBAWABA - Cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who has been working for a long time in The Washington Post, has resigned after the newspaper rejected to publish her

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced that she has quit her position at The Washington Post because her editor killed her cartoon criticizing tech and media billionaires, including Post owner Jeff Bezos.

As Trump’s inauguration draws near, the financial oligarchy is more openly asserting its control over all aspects of society, including the so-called “free press.”

Cartoonist Ann Telnaes quits The Washington Post after her Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos and Mickey Mouse cartoon is rejected.

They will be sitting on the dais during the swearing-in as Silicon Valley leaders aim to make inroads with Trump, who attacked Big Tech during his first presidency.

Pulitzer-winning cartoonist quits as Washington Post rejects sketch showing Bezos, Zuckerberg bowing to Donald Trump

Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, said in a blog post that it was the first time the Post had rejected a drawing because of whom it targeted.

Axios reporter Alex Thompson said Monday that the Washington Post was in "disarray" after a cartoonist quit over claims of censorship and amid a staff exodus from the paper.

Even before the election, the world’s richest man, billionaire Elon Musk, was inseparable from Trump. There’s also Musk’s one-time PayPal colleague, Peter Thiel, who has been a longtime benefactor to incoming Vice President JD Vance.

Ann Telnaes says news publication owners are responsible for safeguarding a free press, and ‘trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press’

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 The post Washington Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes Quits After Bezos-Owned Paper Kills Trump Satire Piece appeared first on TheWrap.

Tech moguls Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are planning to attend ... prompting cartoonist Ann Telnaes to quit in protest. Opinions editor David Shipley wrote a memo to staff noting ...