Washington Post editorial cartoonist resigns over banned cartoon. What’s the fallout?

The resignation of Pulitzer-Prize-winning veteran Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes is the latest high-profile departure at the paper – an exodus that’s included editorial board staff and reporters, not to mention hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Telnaes, who started at the Post in 2008, announced her departure on Friday, after the paper refused to publish her cartoon featuring a giant statue of President-elect Donald Trump towering above Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, who is kneeling. Also cowering in front of the cartoon’s statue are Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, chief of OpenAI, all of them handing bags of money to the giant Trump.

Telnaes says the cartoon is a critique of the billionaire tech and media executives currying favor with the incoming president.

Here & Now talks to CNN’s chief media analyst Brian Stelter about this and other recent controversies surrounding the Washington Post, and how they impact the newspaper and its staff.