I have no inside information on this but looking at it from the outside it looks like employees at the Washington Post are feeling a bit panicky about the direction the paper has been headed lately.
All of this started before the election when owner Jeff Bezos told the editorial board not to endorse Kamala Harris. Even though the LA Times had done the same thing first, the response at the Post was much more volatile. In a matter of days, 200,000 people canceled their subscriptions and several people quit. This was bad news for a newspaper that the publisher had previously described as being in a financial hole.
Since then, things have not improved. On the contrary, a Post cartoonist resigned earlier this month after editors rejected a cartoon showing Bezos and others bowing down before a statue of Trump.
This Ann Telnaes’s cartoon draft depicting Jeff Bezos,…
