OPINION:
The Washington Post has seen several members of its editorial board step down and star reporters exit after owner Jeff Bezos killed the paper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president (“Washington Post cartoonist quits after depiction of Bezos kneeling to Trump was axed,” web, Jan. 4).
The most recent Post casualty is Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who announced her departure last Friday following the paper’s refusal to publish her satirical cartoon depicting Mr. Bezos on bended knee in front of President-elect Donald Trump.
Post opinion editor David Shipley said in a statement that the decision not to print the cartoon 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.”
Was this really the case? Or was the move actually made owing to, as Ms. Telnaes said, “craven censorship” and “political cowardice”?
RICK KNIGHT
Henrico, Virginia
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