Respect to @anntelnaes.bsky.social for quitting the Washington Post due to censorship over her on-point cartoon. More of this from artists and writers, please. Don't obey in advance, especially to the broligarchy.
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Again *what* looks completely misleading? The cartoon? The wording of Ann's statement? Or something else? You've provided no antecedent for the pronoun "it."
“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.”
To the Democrats who said, “Don’t cancel your [insert NYT, LAT, WaPo] subscription. You’re only punishing the journalists who work there!” We can’t hope that they keep doing their journalistic duty, when the owners obviously are currying favor from the dictator-on-day-one. Don’t obey in advance.
“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.”
FYI fans of editorial cartoons: Every day I post a 🧵of all the cartoons I can find, including some from Canada, the UK & other countries around the world.
They're pinned to my profile every day, & all the previous 🧵s are located under the Feeds tab of my profile.
Big respect to @anntelnaes.bsky.social for standing up to the broligarchy! Quitting over censorship? That’s next-level 'I said what I said' energy. Here's to more artists drawing lines and crossing them.🎨✊
The Washington Post is a symbol of all that is wrong with large legacy media. They don't know how to compete in the new information age and allowing billionaires to buy these properties will not save them.
Cancelled my subscription when they refused to endorse a candidate and then Bezos kissed the ring. Following some online media that tells the truth and doesn’t suck up to a racist, misogynistic felon.
This is how things started in Erdoğan's Turkey two decades ago. Owners censoring their journalists, then laying them off. Then journalists censoring themselves in fear of retribution.
None of this stopped Erdoğan's attack on press until there was full submission or takeover of media by his cronies.
India is a step ahead!
RW govt led by Modi, bought out media through his cronies, journalists are silenced, if they do write pieces, critical of govt, some of them are jailed for more than a year without trials, no bails.
And he’s laughing at them…just like Joe and Mika …he’ll continue denigrating them in his truths…my god, it hurts to call them that! What a joke! Keep giving him $$$ suckers.
And “they” wonder why people have a gleeful response when a CEO or wealthy person becomes a victim. Peasants will rise up eventually. History shows this…
For all that they love to project their tough-guy images, it never ceases to amuse me how remarkably thin skinned these tech-bro wannabe-oligarchs are.
@anntelnaes.bsky.social has more courage than the majority of journalists working today. So much respect for you!
@chrislhayes.bsky.social #MaggieHaberman @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social @jaketapper.bsky.social #AndersonCooper could take a note or two. This is real journalistic courage!
Remember,Musk,Trump,Zuck have severe inadequacy issues.
Zuck started Facebook over a girl and is still trying to show off his manliness.
Trump was rejected by the New York elite and has parental abandonment issues.
Musk's inherited $ gave him a big start then he took credit for other people's work.
They "know" but choose to either dismiss or ignore it citing some conspiracy theory they saw on TikTok, YouTube, Truth Social, Parler, Meta, etc. or because it doesn't align with their beliefs. #ConfirmationBias
I meant, if we know and our knowing could make a difference. Otherwise, as the top post said, I really don't care about everything they say or do that doesn't impact the rest of us.
Rather than piles of money, shouldn't they be offering their asses, so the Orange Shitweasel can fuck them over? Much like how a baboon keeps his clan in line by fucking over everyone, including the other males?
They have different rules for us. Free speech absolutism is only for fashy people doxxing and slandering anyone left of Margaret Thatcher. The rest has to play by arbitrary rules they come up in the fly.
PSA: Go participate in the closest https://peplesmarch.com
1/18. The resistance has begun 💪🏻
Let’s show the 🍊🍇ist we aren’t going quietly in the night.
She is 100% correct. Censored over what depicts the absolute truth of the billionaire moguls bowing down and kissing the a** of 45. I support and commend her.
Jeff Bezos sucked up to Trump to stop the moron Elon from trying to put his space program out of business. Given the choice, should he just allowed that to happen? What would you do?
Her Cartoon makes no sense. And Known Leftist twizat waffles who have been ginning up censorship since 2020 are beyond the pale. This is why People Lost and will continue losing for the next 20 years.
We should all Streisand Effect the fuck out of this cartoon. I'm serious. Give it way further reach than it would have had if the WaPo had just printed it. We win if we shine the light on every underhanded thing they do.
Great job Bezos. More people will see this cartoon than will see any other cartoon. I stopped my WP subscription when Bezos showed his cowardice during the election. Eat the rich!
I dropped WP subscription when Bezo kissed the ring. It was easy to do, but hard to leave the writers, cartoonists, that made the publication a daily habit and joy. For someone to stand up to their employer is courageous and brave. Truly inspirational!
Living in the reality that most of us actually need a job, absolutely. Part of the problem I that too many of us can’t afford to bite the hand that feeds, but changing the hand and then fighting back is still quite laudable.
For people who don’t click through to the substack piece by @anntelnaes.bsky.social on why she quit the Bezos-infected, comply-in-advance-to-the-autocrat-in-waiting, here’s a telling excerpt …
I can't believe so many were still paying for WaPo subs after they showed their true colors during Trump's first term. This is likely to get me blocked by many, the fact that Anne was with them since 08, and JUST NOW See's a reason to leave is pretty telling. Put up with it till it effects you, eh?
This is what Biden and Garland allowed to happen these past 4 years. Trump's doing exactly what he promised, they were the adults in the room that decided to take the term off from protecting democracy.
A woman of true principles and spine. Good on her for not cowering and bending the knee just to keep her job. 👏👏👏👏 there are a ton load of men including that degenerate former employer that can only dream of being this strong.
I have a lot of respect for @anntelnaes.bsky.social. She stood tall when it would have been easier to go along with Washington Post editor censorship of her cartoon. Because it depicted Jeff Bezos the owner of Washington Post bowing with sack of cash in front a statue of Felon Donald.
Heard the Bezos interview just last week where he promised that the paper would be an aggressive force for journalism. Apparently the paper is not allowed to have an editorial pov.
Shame on you Disney
Mickey mouse got down the lowest .
Not that surprised really considering Walt Disney was at least a NAZI sympathiZer.
Hope I got the spulling correct.
Forgot to mention ABC network.
Hahahahahahaha !!!
Speaking of the broligarchy, look at all the regimes at war, look at the bombers, the mass murderers, the lone wolves. These decisions to attack, kill, hurt, disrupt seem to be associated with being male and angry. Why are we not calling this out? Baby has been put in the corner globally. Enough
We need to use every option available in the Constitution to stop the felon insurrectionist traitor. Please stand and make your voice heard. Call your members of Congress, state governors, and sign this petition. We are bigger than Trump. We must show it. Sign and share. Thank you. 💙
But also… Opinions editor DAVID SHIPLEY told NYT’s Benjamin Mullin that his decision “was guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column — this one a satire — for publication. The only bias was against repetition.”
Cynthia, you're right! Ann Telnaes' cartoon will be etched in history! I love how art can be both timeless and timely. What's your take on the role of satire in speaking truth to power? Let's discuss!
The moment I read that Bezos would not allow the WP to endorse Harris was the day I cancelled my Amazon account.
Punish these oligarchs and make them hurt where they feel pain.
I'm not sure the mouse is fully accurate. Disney owns a LOT of stuff, and so far, they have in no way completely copitulatued to Trump simply because one employee from one of their companies did.
It’s an even bigger ask to ask an artist who almost certainly isn’t paid well in a market not flush with creative jobs to begin with, to make moral and ethical stands, but it’s at the heart of what makes us artists. Mad respect to her! 🫡✊
...and with that, I have no reason to resubscribe to WaPo. She was the only reason I stayed as long as I did, until their non-endorsement fiasco turned me ALL the way off.
Ironic for Bezos that this excellent cartoon is getting 10x the attention it would have gotten if WAPO had let it run. Thanks for stepping away, @anntelnaes.bsky.social.
Completely agree! And it’s so sad that this cartoon wasn’t allowed!! We need brave media that doesn’t bow to the billionaire class, now more than ever.
This is what all the journalists from legacy media should do. Imagine what they could accomplish if they started their own news agency and report actual news.
Anyone starting a news operation needs significant financial backing, and since this nearly always comes from capitalists, censorship is built in before the first story is even published. Advertising has all but evaporated, so to keep going and pay their staff ...
Yet journalists are doing it every day on TikTok and Bluesky every day. Are they making loads of money? Not yet, but they will. I still think that it could be done and, yes, they'd have to sacrifice for a while until it was built up, but they could use Kickstarter or something like that.
SM is a sideline — unlikely they would ever make enough to live on. And probably most of them have families, so sacrificing is an impossible dream. I hope I'm wrong but I know the industry very well.
I don't know...they pay for all kinds of streaming subscriptions, why not a news one, especially if they could trust the journalists. If they stopped trusting them, they cancel their subscription which hurts the news agency.
Different scenario altogether. If people want to watch a specific show or movie, they have no choice but to pay for the relevant streaming service. News OTOH can be had for free all over the internet.
The first acts of dictators is to shut down journalists and artists. Both convey to the world social and political realities via different mediums, and are seen as threats by those who wish to take control, power and freedoms from the people.
Exodus 32:8 ESV
"They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden [orange?] calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it”
100% agree. If everyone did it, we’d be 100% fresh out of political cartoonists. Change the bar *where you are*. Leaving defers the change and pushes the responsibility to someone else—there would be no one else under that paradigm.
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https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
-Anne Telnaes
-Anne Telnaes, former WaPo cartoonist
They're pinned to my profile every day, & all the previous 🧵s are located under the Feeds tab of my profile.
None of this stopped Erdoğan's attack on press until there was full submission or takeover of media by his cronies.
RW govt led by Modi, bought out media through his cronies, journalists are silenced, if they do write pieces, critical of govt, some of them are jailed for more than a year without trials, no bails.
this is what happens to those speking yruth to power.
He’ll take them down regardless.
SEND THEM BACK TO #Xitter
It’s really, this simple….💙💙💙
of the free press
#BoycottAmazon
@chrislhayes.bsky.social #MaggieHaberman @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social @jaketapper.bsky.social #AndersonCooper could take a note or two. This is real journalistic courage!
Glad I’m on a platform where I can still be informed
Zuck started Facebook over a girl and is still trying to show off his manliness.
Trump was rejected by the New York elite and has parental abandonment issues.
Musk's inherited $ gave him a big start then he took credit for other people's work.
PSA: Go participate in the closest https://peplesmarch.com
1/18. The resistance has begun 💪🏻
Let’s show the 🍊🍇ist we aren’t going quietly in the night.
💀💀💀
#UndercoverGranny
Click.
Carry on, Anne T
So apt.
Mickey mouse got down the lowest .
Not that surprised really considering Walt Disney was at least a NAZI sympathiZer.
Hope I got the spulling correct.
Forgot to mention ABC network.
Hahahahahahaha !!!
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
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@anntelnaes.bsky.social
And yes, respect to everyone who takes action against this!💪
Because Democracy dies in the Darkness
Or something
#charliehebdo
Punish these oligarchs and make them hurt where they feel pain.
"They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden [orange?] calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it”