Paper has been pilloried for what some call ā€˜anticipatory obedienceā€™ in preparation of a new president next year

Paper has been pilloried for what some call ā€˜anticipatory obedienceā€™ in preparation of a new president next year

The Washington Postā€™s cartoon team has taken a measure of revenge on the newspaperā€™s decision to avoid making a formal presidential endorsement with a dark formlessĀ imageĀ clearly designed to skewer the ā€œDemocracy Dies in Darknessā€ slogan that the outlet adopted during billionaire Jeff Bezosā€™s ownership.

The image was published hours after it was revealed that Bezos, who has owned the paper since 2012, had pulled the plug on a prepared endorsement ofĀ Kamala Harris overĀ Donald Trump in the 5 November election.

The cartoon commentary was created by Pulitzer prize-winning illustrator Ann Telnaes, who is known for her incisive political representations.

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    19 days ago

    The Associated PressĀ reportedĀ that Trump briefly met with executives of Bezosā€™s space exploration company Blue Origin on Friday after his newspaper had spiked its endorsement of Harris.

    Musk goes MAGA in the hopes that Trumpā€™s corruption will save him via government contracts and policy decisions.
    Bezos, fearing for Blue Origin, spikes a Harris endorsement, which very fucking transparently gets the company an audience with Trump. If it werenā€™t for the fact that, you know, I live here, it would be very funny to watch these idiots get swindled by a con man.

    But I live here, and that con man will tank the economy, raid the stock market, strip everything of value from the government, and do all he can to transfer that value into his pockets or the pockets of those he thinks he controls, while letting his allies steer the domestic and social direction of the country. And I donā€™t much care for the people heā€™s allied with.