The Borowitz Report - Democracy Dies in Bezos

[LetMyPeopleVote]

I agree with Andy Borowitz. Bezos and the Washington Post have sold out on defending democracy
https://bsky.app/profile/sharyn420.bsky.social/post/3lewl5tndok2a

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Ann Telnaes, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist for the Washington Post since 2008, quit the paper this week after her editor killed her cartoon depicting WaPo owner Jeff Bezos and other craven billionaires debasing themselves before Donald J. Trump.

This act of censorship, of course, isn’t an outlier: anticipatory obedience to fascism has risen ominously in recent months. It began with WaPo and the Los Angeles Times spiking endorsements of Kamala Harris, only to be outdone by Disney, who gifted Trump $15 million instead of fighting his flimsy defamation claim in court. Oh, and let’s not forget Joe and Mika’s humiliating field trip to Mar-a-Lago.

I don’t know Ms. Telnaes but I admire her work, integrity, and courage. I’m publishing the rough draft of her cartoon above in the hopes that you’ll share it. If enough people do, it will reach a larger audience than if her WaPo editor had had the cojones to run it. Actually, given how many subscribers have fled the paper in recent months, reaching a larger audience than the Washington Post isn’t a daunting task.

Love,
Andy

[spooky3]

1. If WaPo weren't losing so much money ($76 million

As of May 24) maybe a more courageous and principled rich person would buy it. Bezos paid $250 million in 2013.

[snot]

2. Honestly, I wouldn't care whether the figure on the pedestal were Repub or Dem;

it's political satire, ffs!

The levels of censorship and self-censorship going on should frighten us all.

That said, I'd have more sympathy if more members of the MSM had defended Assange.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Defend Assange from what exactly? 🧐

Being a Putinist stooge? Being an accomplice to Assad's murderous regime and helping him hunt down political dissenters? Playing a small but critical role in helping giftwrap the 2016 election to Donnie? Doxxing Sony employees? Keeping quiet when dozens of real whistleblowers have been imprisoned, assassinated or otherwise "disappeared" in Russia and Red China? Squelching the Panama Papers release because all the biggest revelations were people directly connected to his buddy Vlad? For Assange to be defended by the media, wouldn't he have to be an actual journalist first instead of an information broker and blackmailer?

I could go on but you get the point...

[snot]

5. Sorry, but

I apparently get my facts from different sources than you do (mine including, e.g., Pulitzer- and otherwise prize-winning journalists who were pushed out of the MSM for such acts as criticizing our 2003 invasion of Iraq, as well as fact-checked sources from both ends of the political spectrum).

[Blue_Tires]

6. If the "prize winning journalist" you're referring to is Greenwald

We're already done here.

If you believe doxxing innocent victims of a hack or abetting an anti-democratic regime is "proper journalism, I can't help you.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Moral courage and its opposite

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