Washington Post cartoonist quits after satire of Jeff Bezos is rejected
The newspaper decided not to run Ann Telnaes' cartoon of tycoons kneeling before Donald Trump.
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Ann Telnaes, a long-time Washington Post cartoonist, created a cartoon of Mr Bezos and other tycoons kneeling before a statue of President-elect Donald Trump.
She said the paper's refusal to run the cartoon was a "game changer" and described it as "dangerous for a free press".
But David Shipley, the editorial page editor at the paper, said he decided not to run the cartoon in order to avoid repetition, not because it mocked the paper's owner.
In the cartoon, Mr Bezos, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI's Sam Altman are depicted on their knees giving bags of cash to a statue of Trump.
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