Ann Talnaes Quits WaPo After They Kill Cartoon Critical Of Jeff Bezos

Democracy Dies in Darkness, indeed.

The official slogan of The Washington Post seems more ironic than anything these days. And it's not just since Amazon billionaire (trillionaire?) Jeff Bezos bought the paper back in 2013, but more recently after Will Lewis from Rupert Murdoch's The Wall Street Journal took over as CEO and publisher in January 2024. Cartoonist Michael DeAdder was soon let go in February, despite winning the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.

So, after the...