Hacker News Reader

Comment by esafak | Hacker News Reader

This is such an innocuous cartoon. I can't believe it would be an issue in this age.

I certainly believe it would be an issue. When your boss is one of the supplicants depicted in the cartoon it makes for an uncomfortable conflict of interests for the editor. We are not a post-oligarch society. We have a thin veneer of democracy now, but the decisions that really matter are made while rolling around in giant piles of $$$.

Neither do I. One always suspects this is a "straw breaking camel's back" moment, and that much has led up to the decision.

They quit, they weren't fired. What would the rest of the straws possibly be that led to the editor denying this one single cartoon?

Any amount of interpersonal friction, external job offers, whatever.

This is a 'rough'. I'd like to see the submitted version.

I assumed they submit roughs to get feedback, and it was rejected at that step ?

Possibly, though you'd hope that they'd include that information.

That they didn't makes you think that there's a reason they didn't.

Why wasn't such cartoon made when Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to essentially increase Get-out-to-vote in essentially largely democratic areas.

Delusional to think the WP and NYT journalists are coming at this at a highly non-partisan way.

The entire mainstream media is Anti-Trump, Anti-GOP.

I remember how MSM treated Javier Millei as the next hitler

> Why wasn't such cartoon made when Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to essentially increase Get-out-to-vote in essentially largely democratic areas.

untrue.

Funny how trying to get more people to vote is somehow seen as partisan by you.

You are on the wrong side of democracy. More votes, even votes of people who disagree with you, is always a good thing!

The money was spent in Democratic-heavy zipcodes, not rural areas

Such an American response: this whole idea that efforts spent on Democratic-heavy zipcodes (i.e. cities) are a gotcha. That spending less in rural areas, where *less people live* is somehow a tar.

Look up Fox News' market share and get back to us.

> The entire mainstream media is Anti-Trump, Anti-GOP.

Fox Corp, News Corp, Sinclair Broadcasting, and Newsmax would like to have a word with you about your lack of recognition.

not only that, the most “popular” podcasts and social media accounts are all conservatives. too funny people still BS this “anti-GOP” rhetoric, if someone wanted get onboard with this “anti-GOP / anti-Trump” shit you’d have to have some amazing searching skills to find this content :)

Reality has a liberal slant. That didn't stop MSM from trying to be 'fair' by sane washing Trump in some misguided attempts at (false) balance.

Bezos was upset his moneybag was depicted so small.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com