The Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Ann Telnaes has quit The Washington Post after her editors rejected a cartoon depicting billionaires genuflecting to President-elect Trump. Telnaes says it was the first time since she began her work at the newspaper in 2008 that she had a cartoon killed because of who or what she chose to aim her pen at.

Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes recently announced she was quitting the paper after it spiked her cartoon critical of Post owner Jeff Bezos.

The Post’s opinions editor, David Shipley, said in a statement that he disagreed with “her interpretation of events” and 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.”

Since 2017, a few years after Bezos acquired the Post, its masthead has declared: Democracy Dies in Darkness. Indeed it does. And this is the second time in less than three months that one of America’s most storied newspapers has dimmed its own lights in betrayal to that lofty ethos.

Erik Wemple didn't pull any punches during a live chat session with readers when asked about the controversial decision to scrap the cartoon, which led Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes to resign.

Last week, the Washington Post, censored a political cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes. It depicted Jeff Bezos, the Amazon billionaire and owner of the Post, and four others, bowing down to Donald Trump.

Cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes left the Washington Post amid a dispute over a drawing critical of the newspaper's owner Jeff Bezos.

Telnaes resigned from The Washington Post after her cartoon featuring Jeff Bezos was rejected by the editor. Other editorial cartoonists raised their voices in support and protest.

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Axios reporter Alex Thompson said Monday that the Washington Post was in "disarray" after a cartoonist quit over claims of censorship and amid a staff exodus from the paper.