It's the Song I Hate

Journalists divest from MAGA media—and turn radical. Don't fear the inauguration.

Pulitzer-winning Ann Teinaes left Jeff Bezos’s Post after the paper spiked a cartoon of her that insulted Jeff Bezos.

In a blink, there was cartoonist solidarity. A pantheon of superstars—Barry Blitt, Stephen Brodner, Dave Whammond, and Emma Cook—went full I Am Spartacus and did fantastic tributes to her original cartoon.

When, last fall, the great Mary Jo Murphy left the Post, she wrote, “Quislings are inside the house that Grahams and Bradlees, Woodwards and Bernsteins built.”

Murphy wasn’t pulling punches. Quislings of course get their name from Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian politician who led a fascist Nazi-collaborator government during the war.

And it’s not just the Post that collaborates—with Trump or with oligarchs or both. The five biggest American newspaper chains are owned by two hedge funds, a private equity fund, a billionaire family, and another billionaire family. Of the major television news networks, owners include the Murdoch family, Disney, Comcast, Paramount, and Warner Brothers Discovery.