Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: OT: WaPo cartoonist resigns Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 21:42:35 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 03:42:37 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bc06fed5f61f5fe77a4eb4ffa2adbcad"; logging-data="1380974"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19yYTmrw43eqD5pwryvNfBvWN63DkNhxN8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:HQJE45vlNiUdXY0hnmJzE9xE9fc= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250105-6, 1/5/2025), Outbound message Content-Language: en-CA X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3208 On 2025-01-04 10:58 PM, moviePig wrote: > On 1/4/2025 6:28 PM, Rhino wrote: >> On 2025-01-04 6:03 PM, moviePig wrote: >>> On 1/4/2025 5:17 PM, Rhino wrote: >>>> On 2025-01-04 4:58 PM, moviePig wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Read it and weep... >>>>> >>>>>     https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the- >>>>> washington- post >>>>> >>>> >>>> I don't disagree with her basic principle but I wonder how many >>>> times she held Biden and his administration to account? I'll bet she >>>> found reasons to give them a pass.... >>> >>> Alarmingly irrelevant, but here you go: >>> >> Irrelevant? Hardly! You don't get to cry "hypocrite!" at tech bros >> unless you're free from hypocrisy yourself. Given how the WashPost >> refused to see Biden's mental decline until the June debate despite it >> being obvious to anyone with eyes, I have every right to be suspicious >> of her only being upset now that she can't depict the tech bros in a >> negative light. >> >>> >>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/19/biden-fantasy- >>> world- ann-telnaes-cartoon/ >>> >>> ...and... >>> >>> >>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/05/ann-telnaes- >>> cartoon- biden-israel/ >>> >>> ...etc. >> >> Those links would be great if I had a subscription but I don't: I get >> a big subscription window that covers much of the cartoon and doesn't >> let me scroll down to see the caption. > > They're some of her Biden cartoons.  I arrived at the links via Google > ("telnaes cartoon biden") and encountered no paywall. > > However, *her* potential bias ("hypocrisy") isn't the issue here.  E.g., > she could even be hired as Ultra-Liberal Attack Dog.  What's disturbing > is the Voice From Above (Bezos? Trump?) exerting editorial censorship. > > As usual, you have a competely wrong-headed attitude here but if you didn't understand my first explanation, you won't understand my second either. -- Rhino