Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: OT: WaPo cartoonist resigns Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 11:29:34 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:29:35 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5502217a36b3dada914bf3a57f90c0be"; logging-data="1798540"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Kt2NZDSBGf840leilHeWnYZouMZJ7Izc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:t5+tK5oOrhSrJLyEDKfc5PpYWeE= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3327 On 1/5/2025 9:42 PM, Rhino wrote: > 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. Your "first explanation" is that she should be bipartisan, right? Why?