An Ann Telnaes/WaPo Update
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We’ll start at Open Windows, the Ann Telnaes Substack.
My colleagues in print
Ann reproduces Jill Abramson’s Boston Globe report on The Washington Post and “the guardians of a free press” and it includes a gallery including Ann’s rejected cartoon and a handful of supporting cartoons.
Ann also presents her recent 7 minute interview with Julian Worricker at the BBC.
For now Ann says her cartoons will appear on her Substack.
Digression – Perhaps one outlet for her cartoons will be the newly formed The Contrarian:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen launched The Contrarian, a new independent media project unencumbered by corporate interests. The Contrarian will feature both political and cultural commentary in defense of democracy with multiple daily Substack columns, a YouTube channel, podcasts, and more.
To launch this new venture, Rubin has announced that, effective today, she has resigned from The Washington Post. She and Eisen will be joined by a stellar group of over two dozen contributors.
Telnaes Tribute Cont’d – We are Telnaes
Cartoonist Steve Brodner continues updating The Ann Telnaes Story at his The Greater Quiet Substack.
The Washington Post’s Opinion editor, David Shipley, on Friday defended his actions
The Washington Post’s Opinion editor, David Shipley, on Friday defended spiking a cartoon critical of the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, telling colleagues in a memo that he believes he “made a sound editorial decision.”
In the lengthy memo, obtained by Status and published in its entirety below, Shipley said he chose not to run the cartoon, which was drawn by Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Ann Telnaes, because it too closely mirrored a previously published column and another piece that was already in the works.
Oliver Darcy at Status reports on WaPo editor Shipley sticking with his choice and the reasoning behind it.
An excuse cartoonist Scott Stantis called “lame” more than a few times in the latest DMZ America Podcast where he and Ted Rall discuss the Telnaes-WaPo situation for the first 13 minutes.
They ask if the real reason was Shipley protecting his job by not publishing the cartoon and both seem to agree that it was an overreaction by both parties.
Decision not to run cartoon undermines readers’ trust
Michael Rhode at Comics DC is also following the story and posts a letter to the editor The Washington Post ran that also finds Shipley’s reasoning less than credible:
Editorial page editor David Shipley insulted readers’ intelligence with his explanation for refusing to run Ann Telnaes’s cartoon critical of Post owner Jeff Bezos. After Telnaes resigned, Shipley asserted to the New York Times that his only goal was avoiding repetition, as The Post had already run commentary critical of billionaires’ obsequiousness to Donald Trump.
The Post frequently features opinion pieces making similar points. It has continually published pieces since the election on how Democrats have only themselves to blame for losing because they are too woke…
Reaction to Telnaes quitting WaPo
Michael/Comics DC has a long and growing list of reactions, and continually updated.
Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
On Saturday the NPR program Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! featured the Ann Telnaes situation as part of their Lightning Fill in the Blank portion of the news quiz show (at the 48:00 minute portion of the show):
On Monday a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at The Washington Post resigned from the papebecause they refused to print a cartoon critical of ______ blank.
Here at The Daily Cartoonist we added 13 more cartoons to our Stand With Ann list putting it at over 100 cartoons and almost as many cartoonists (some cartoonists have done more than one cartoon supporting Ann).
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