Social Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post cartoonist resigns after Bezos cartoon is blocked

[Lord_Impaler]

lol at throwing a tantrum because you can’t publicly shit on your own boss.



Welcome to the real world sweetheart.

 

[JBJisGOAT14]

Typical MAGAts in here per usual wrapping themselves into pretzels defending their rich, elite papas. Absolutely pathetic, they have literally no dignity left.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

They've been giving Pulitzers for cartoons for over a century. Not sure how you concluded that this cartoonist wasn't deserving of theirs aside from partisan brain rot.

Pulitzers for cartoons...for over a century.

Wow.... thank you for proving my point.

 

[Madmick]

I'm just going to copy and repost what I've written before about this paper every time some crap like this comes up. Because the below history unearths where this newspaper workforce's priorities had come to lie before these most recent, more rational editorial decisions. The free press isn't under any threat. I'm exhausted listening to the histrionic chicken littles insist it is.

“I Can’t Sugarcoat It Anymore”​

When Washington Post publisher Will Lewis and new interim executive editor Matt Murray met with staff Monday, the newsroom was still coming to terms with the abrupt exit of Sally Buzbee, who had led the paper since May 2021.

“Everyone was pretty shocked with your email last night,” one reporter said at the meeting, according to a source present. The reporter suggested that “the most cynical interpretation sort of feels like you chose two of your buddies to come in and help run the Post, and we now have four white men running three newsrooms,” and expressed surprise at this development given Lewis’s prior commitments to diversity...

During the Monday meeting, Lewis said, “We need world-class journalism every single day, and the people that are coming in to help us do that will be a real benefit to the organization.”

Later in the meeting, another reporter asked Lewis whether “any women or people of color were interviewed and seriously considered for either of these positions,” a question that prompted applause....

At one point Lewis was asked whether he was intentionally bringing in people who come from a different culture than the Post. “We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore,” Lewis said. “So I’ve had to take decisive, urgent action to set us on a different path, sourcing talent that I have worked with that are the best of the best.”

You can already see the guiding ethos of those editors & journalists above. Their ship is plunging into the icy depths, everyone is going to be out of a job if it stays that course, but what are they most upset about? White guys.

Maher's bit on an earlier meltdown needs to be reposted ad nauseum. It's so funny suddenly these woke types pretend to care about "censorship". They sure as hell didn't care when they were canceling people for innocuous jokes they shared on their twitters outside of the work environment.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

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I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.

The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump. There have been multiple articles recently about these men with lucrative government contracts and an interest in eliminating regulations making their way to Mar-a-lago. The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner.

While it isn’t uncommon for editorial page editors to object to visual metaphors within a cartoon if it strikes that editor as unclear or isn’t correctly conveying the message intended by the cartoonist, such editorial criticism was not the case regarding this cartoon. To be clear, there have been instances where sketches have been rejected or revisions requested, but never because of the point of view inherent in the cartoon’s commentary. That’s a game changer…and dangerous for a free press.

Over the years I have watched my overseas colleagues risk their livelihoods and sometimes even their lives to expose injustices and hold their countries’ leaders accountable. As a member of the Advisory board for the Geneva based Freedom Cartoonists Foundation and a former board member of Cartoonists Rights, I believe that editorial cartoonists are vital for civic debate and have an essential role in journalism.

There will be people who say, “Hey, you work for a company and that company has the right to expect employees to adhere to what’s good for the company”. That’s true except we’re talking about news organizations that have public obligations and who are obliged to nurture a free press in a democracy. Owners of such press organizations are responsible for safeguarding that free press— and trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press.

As an editorial cartoonist, 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. I doubt my decision will cause much of a stir and that it will be dismissed because I’m just a cartoonist. But I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness”.

Thank you for reading this.

 

[Witchhunt]

I'm just going to copy and repost what I've written before about this paper every time some crap like this comes up. Because the below history unearths where this newspaper workforce's priorities had come to lie before these most recent, more rational editorial decisions. The free press isn't under any threat. I'm exhausted listening to the histrionic chicken littles insist it is.

“I Can’t Sugarcoat It Anymore”​

You can already see the guiding ethos of those editors & journalists above. Their ship is plunging into the icy depths, everyone is going to be out of a job if it stays that course, but what are they most upset about? White guys.

Maher's bit on an earlier meltdown needs to be reposted ad nauseum. It's so funny suddenly these woke types pretend to care about "censorship". They sure as hell didn't care when they were canceling people for innocuous jokes they shared on their twitters outside of the work environment.

/thread

 

[TheGreatA]

I feel like the power dynamic is the opposite at this point.

 

[oldshadow]

The paper was/is going under and they brought people in to fix it.

If the people their like this woman doesn't like the new people in charge she can do what she did. She can now shop around for a paper that is more in line with what she believes political.


News papers are a business not a non-profit organization.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Is Mickey Mouse supposed to be dead here or something? And is the one guy holding lipstick?

I have to say I’m struggling to figure out what the hell this comic is trying to depict.

 

[Osculater]

Fvcking Mickey Mouse

 

[fungi]

It got canceled because it's ass-kissing.

Ftfy.

 

[King Joffery]

Is bezos republican? I always assumed he's on the left but no idea tbh

He is on the left but he also likes money and knows Kamala would destroy the economy which might also have a slight negative effect on him as the poorer masses won't have as much free cash to spend money on all his products.

 

[Andy Capp]

He is on the left but he also likes money and knows Kamala would destroy the economy which might also have a slight negative effect on him as the poorer masses won't have as much free cash to spend money on all his products.

Literally lol'd @ that; thanks.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Lmao. Madcan playing the victim and posting Bill Maher is absolute perfection.



Idiots that spend their days going through a thesaurus really do attract each other.

 

[Sweater of AV]