Here’s the cartoon
A great cartoon, which would have been quickly forgotten. Now it will be in history books (if there are still history books in the future).
“Wealthcare”
who are the bootlickers supposed to be? jeffbezos and? elon?
Bozos, Zuckerberg, Altman, Soon-Shiong, and The Mouse.
Could add Tim Cook to the cartoon now as well
I don’t know if “Bozos” was intentional or not, but it makes sense.
EDIT: And of course, an autocorrect-induced typo in my reply. The future sucks.
Bit of Streisand Effect going on here. If they didn’t reject the cartoon, I probably wouldn’t have seen it.
Wow, I was expecting something graphic, but its totally on point. Harmless self-awareness.
Heck, Bezos wouldn’t mind.
The only reason he and anyone cares is that “accepting” it would make the president elect throw a Twitter tantrum, or at least pass-aggress Bezos… Sometimes, I can’t believe this is where we are.
“Democracy dies in darkness.” Someone remind me where that’s from…
Bob Woodward of the WP ironically enough.
That was the joke.
Half of us weren’t in on it, so I appreciate them explaining.
So this is how democracy dies, to thunderous applause
So, the paper claims this was denied because it’s redundant with their other content. But this is literally the first time
hisher cartoon has been rejected and apparentlyheshe felt strongly enough to quit.Just so you know, the cartoonist (Wikipedia) is a woman.
Thanks for the correction. I don’t know how I missed that and apparently I need to check my biases.
When they said that they already had other “content” cover it, I tough they mean another cartoon (isn’t like this cartoon idea is extremely original anyway). But not, they mean an opinion column or something like that? Lmao, what a farce.
It’s interesting that you can tell it’s trump and you only see his hands and feet.
It’s that in unhinged ass-out shoulders forward stance that clinches it for me.
And the teeny tiny hands
And the oversized suit and tie.
I would not have figured out that she meant Bezos in that cartoon and I’m sure I’m far from alone. But apparently that was still too far.
Editorial independence!
I donno, I think I wouldve guessed on first glance. His look is pretty unique and the cartoon is spot on. Its like drawing an orange with yellow pubes.
How many Americans do you think could even pick Jeff Bezos out of a lineup? Even if they’re Post readers?
I would hope around 99%
99%? Do you know nothing about America? 99% of people couldn’t identify the president.
Half of Americans think that Facebook has to guarantee their free speech rights and 1 in 10 don’t even know who George Washington was.
They literally see George Washington all the time and don’t know who he was. Why on Earth would they know what Jeff Bezos looks like?
Yes Im aware that 99% is not realistic, I was exaggerating with the ‘hope’ part. But even if it is just 50%, that was not the point. Most cartoons and news articles arent resonating with more than a small percentage of the population.
Anybody seen that show “Leave the World Behind” on Netflix where the ultra-rich basically just get a heads up before anyone else that the shit is about to hit the fan?
This feels like that
No. It feels like the utra-rich are the ones flinging the shit at the fan and ducking to let the rest of society get splattered.
They have been pretty blatant about the fact they are going full Nazi as soon as they can.
She’s already been replaced by AI.
Oh man I just imagined an editorial cartoon made by AI. Gross.
I bet a good cartoonist could make a good cartoon about this very subject…
Nah, AI can’t be controlled in the same way. AI has source code, which can be easily leaked… aka not something they would want the public to know. Much easier to replace someone with information to blackmail them
AI does not have “source code”. It has models. Which are pretty much indecipherable to humans, even in the field. You can almost think of them as one way hashes in some respects. You take a world of data (literally) and produce a model that works in a very narrow context to represent that world of data along specific edges and nodes.
Source: Am in the field.
They’ve been replacing people in the media with AI for like two years now. How are you not aware of that?
Because only certain positions can be. They’d be folding that part of the outlet, they can run “wordles” or something in its place but I don’t think they can actually do so without loosing money. And that money means a lot to a media company right now. Loyalty trials mean more than just a position but profitability in reach. To own that outlet, they need to sell it to a person who knows the loss they are taking. Unknown loss means losing the entire subsidiary which I doubt many would take.
If you run a grocery store you don’t give out free endcaps, especially when dying out unless you are planning to be closed. This is like selling isles for free.
Yes, and one of those positions can be ‘political cartoonist.’
Not hard to get an AI to make a bland, inoffensive political cartoon.
