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  • Kartunis Washington Post berhenti selepas akhbar tolak lakaran Bezos tunduk kepada Trump

    Foto ini disiarkan oleh kartunis Ann Telnaes di laman webnya, dengan kapsyen mengatakan ia adalah draf kasar kartun “dibunuh” oleh Washington Post.

    Seorang kartunis memutuskan untuk berhenti kerja di Washington Post selepas seorang editor menolak lakarannya mengenai pemilik akhbar itu dan eksekutif media lain yang tunduk di hadapan Presiden Donald Trump.

    Ann Telnaes menyiarkan mesej pada Jumaat di platform dalam talian Substack mengatakan dia melukis kartun yang menunjukkan sekumpulan eksekutif media tunduk di hadapan Trump sambil menawarkan beg wang kepadanya, termasuk pemilik Post dan pengasas Amazon Jeff Bezos.
    Telnaes menulis bahawa kartun itu bertujuan untuk mengkritik “ketua eksekutif teknologi dan media bilionair yang telah melakukan yang terbaik untuk memihak kepada Presiden terpilih akan datang Trump”.

    Beberapa eksekutif, Bezos antaranya, telah dikesan di kelab Trump di Florida, Mar-a-Lago.

    Dia menuduh mereka mempunyai kontrak kerajaan yang menguntungkan dan berusaha untuk menghapuskan peraturan.

    Telnaes berkata bahawa dia tidak pernah sebelum ini kartun ditolak kerana pemesejan yang wujud dan tindakan sedemikian berbahaya untuk akhbar bebas.

    “Sebagai kartunis editorial, tugas saya adalah untuk memastikan orang berkuasa dan institusi bertanggungjawab,” tulis Telnaes.

    “Buat pertama kali, editor saya menghalang saya daripada melakukan kerja kritikal itu. Jadi saya telah memutuskan untuk meninggalkan Post. Saya khuatir keputusan saya akan menyebabkan banyak kekecohan dan ia akan ditolak kerana saya hanya seorang kartunis. Tetapi saya tidak akan berhenti memegang kebenaran kepada kuasa melalui kartun saya, kerana seperti yang mereka katakan ‘Demokrasi mati dalam kegelapan’.”

    Persatuan Kartunis Editorial Amerika mengeluarkan kenyataan pada Sabtu yang menuduh Post sebagai “pengecut politik” dan meminta kartunis lain menyiarkan lakaran Telnaes dengan hashtag #StandWithAnn sebagai tanda solidariti.

    “Kezaliman berakhir di titik pena,” kata persatuan itu.

    “Ia tumbuh subur dalam kegelapan, dan Washington Post hanya menutup matanya dan mengalah seperti peninju yang mabuk.”

    Pengarah komunikasi The Post, Liza Pluto, menyediakan The Associated Press (AP) pada Sabtu dengan kenyataan daripada David Shipley, editor halaman editorial akhbar itu. Shipley berkata dalam kenyataan itu bahawa dia tidak bersetuju dengan “tafsiran peristiwa” Telnaes.

    Dia berkata dia memutuskan untuk membatalkan kartun itu kerana akhbar itu baru sahaja menerbitkan ruangan mengenai topik yang sama dengan kartun itu dan bersedia untuk menerbitkan satu lagi.

    “Tidak setiap penghakiman editorial adalah cerminan kuasa jahat. … Satu-satunya berat sebelah adalah terhadap pengulangan,” kata Shipley.

    AN-AP

  • Washington Post cartoonist quits after paper rejects sketch of Bezos bowing to Trump

    This photo was posted by cartoonist Ann Telnaes on her website, with a caption saying it was a rough draft of the cartoon “killed” by Washington Post.

    A cartoonist has decided to quit her job at the Washington Post after an editor rejected her sketch of the newspaper’s owner and other media executives bowing before President-elect Donald Trump.

    Ann Telnaes posted a message Friday on the online platform Substack saying that she drew a cartoon showing a group of media executives bowing before Trump while offering him bags of money, including Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
    Telnaes wrote that the cartoon was intended to criticize “billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump.”

    Several executives, Bezos among them, have been spotted at Trump’s Florida club Mar-a-Lago.

    She accused them of having lucrative government contracts and working to eliminate regulations.

    Telnaes said that she’s never before had a cartoon rejected because of its inherent messaging and that such a move is dangerous for a free press.

    “As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable,” Telnaes wrote.

    “For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post. I doubt my decision will cause much of a stir and that it will be dismissed because I’m just a cartoonist. But I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say ‘Democracy dies in darkness.’”

    The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists issued a statement Saturday accusing the Post of “political cowardice” and asking other cartoonists to post Telnaes’ sketch with the hashtag #StandWithAnn in a show of solidarity.

    “Tyranny ends at pen point,” the association said. “It thrives in the dark, and the Washington Post simply closed its eyes and gave in like a punch-drunk boxer.”

    The Post’s communications director, Liza Pluto, provided The Associated Press on Saturday with a statement from David Shipley, the newspaper’s editorial page editor. Shipley said in the statement that he disagrees with Telnaes’ “interpretation of events.”

    He said he decided to nix the cartoon because the paper had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and was set to publish another.

    “Not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force. … The only bias was against repetition,” Shipley said.

    AN-AP

  • Wartawan Rusia terbunuh dalam serangan dron

    MOSCOW – Seorang wartawan perang Rusia terbunuh dan empat pekerja media lain cedera dalam serangan dron Ukraine di wilayah Donetsk, lapor agensi berita Rusia RIA Novosti pada Sabtu.

    Dron itu melanda sebuah kereta yang membawa wartawan Rusia di lebuh raya Donetsk-Gorlovka, membunuh Alexander Martemyanov, seorang wartawan sambilan untuk akhbar Rusia Izvestia, kata laporan itu.

    “Selepas membuat penggambaran selepas tembakan di Gorlovka, kami kembali ke Donetsk. Di lebuh raya, dron kamikaze melanda kereta kami,” kata wartawan RIA Novosti Maxim Romanenko, yang merupakan antara yang cedera.

    Denis Pushilin, ketua wilayah Donetsk, berkata di Telegram, semua wartawan yang cedera menerima rawatan perubatan.

    Jurucakap Kementerian Luar Rusia Maria Zakharova berkata serangan terhadap wartawan Rusia itu akan menghadapi “hukuman yang sewajarnya dan tidak dapat dielakkan.”

    XINHUA

  • Russian journalist killed in drone attack

    MOSCOW — A Russian war correspondent was killed and four other media workers injured in a Ukrainian drone strike in the Donetsk region, Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reported Saturday.

    The drone struck a car carrying Russian journalists on the Donetsk-Gorlovka highway, killing Alexander Martemyanov, a stringer for the Russian newspaper Izvestia, the report said.

    “After filming the aftermath of the shelling in Gorlovka, we were returning to Donetsk. On the highway, a kamikaze drone struck our car,” said RIA Novosti correspondent Maxim Romanenko, who was among the injured.

    Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk region, said on Telegram that all injured journalists are receiving medical treatment.

    Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said those attacks against Russian journalists will face “deserved and inevitable punishment.”

    XINHUA

  • 2 maut dalam nahas pesawat ringan di pantai timur Australia

    SYDNEY – Dua orang maut dalam nahas pesawat ringan di pantai timur Australia di utara Sydney.

    Polis di negeri New South Wales (NSW) berkata dalam satu kenyataan pada malam Sabtu, perkhidmatan kecemasan dipanggil untuk melaporkan tentang nahas pesawat ringan di lautan berhampiran pekan Nambucca Heads, kira-kira 400 km ke utara Sydney, pada jam 4 petang waktu tempatan.

    “Juruterbang dan penumpang pesawat itu meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian dan masih belum dikenal pasti secara rasmi,” kata Polis NSW.

    Perbadanan Penyiaran Australia (ABC) melaporkan, serpihan itu ditemui kira-kira 1.5 km dari pantai.

    Polis air, kru ambulans dan sebuah helikopter penyelamat dikerahkan ke tempat kejadian.

    Penguasa Bomba dan Penyelamat NSW Grant Rice memberitahu ABC, serpihan telah dihanyutkan di sepanjang garis pantai.

    Polis NSW berkata ia telah memulakan penyiasatan mengenai keadaan sekitar kejadian itu, dengan Biro Keselamatan Pengangkutan Australia (ATSB) membantu.

    XINHUA

  • 2 killed in light plane crash off Australia’s east coast

    SYDNEY — Two people have died in a light plane crash off Australia’s east coast north of Sydney.

    Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement on Saturday night that emergency services were called to reports of a light plane crash in the ocean near the town of Nambucca Heads, approximately 400 km north of Sydney, at 4 p.m. local time.

    “The pilot and passenger of the aircraft died at the scene and are yet to be formally identified,” NSW Police said.

    The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported that the wreckage was found about 1.5 km off the coast.

    Water police, ambulance crews and a rescue helicopter were deployed to the scene.

    Fire and Rescue NSW Superintendent Grant Rice told the ABC that debris had washed up along the shoreline.

    NSW Police said it has commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident, with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) assisting.

    XINHUA

  • Pertahanan awam Gaza berkata 19 terbunuh dalam serangan Israel

    GAZA STRIP – Pasukan penyelamat di Gaza berkata pada Sabtu, sekurang-kurangnya 19 orang, termasuk lapan kanak-kanak, terbunuh dalam serangan Israel di wilayah Palestin itu.

    Menurut agensi pertahanan awam, serangan udara pada waktu fajar di rumah keluarga Al-Ghoul di Gaza City mengorbankan 11 orang, tujuh daripadanya kanak-kanak.

    “Rumah itu, yang menempatkan beberapa orang yang kehilangan tempat tinggal, musnah sepenuhnya,” kata jurucakap pertahanan awam Mahmud Bassal.

    “Ia adalah bangunan dua tingkat dan beberapa orang masih berada di bawah runtuhan,” tambahnya, sambil berkata dron Israel “juga menembak ke arah kakitangan ambulans”.

    Dihubungi oleh AFP, tentera Israel tidak segera mengulas mengenai serangan itu.

    Imej AFP dari kejiranan Shujaiya, di timur Kota Gaza, menunjukkan penduduk menyisir runtuhan berasap dan mayat berbaris di atas tanah, ditutup dengan cadar putih.

    “Satu letupan besar menyedarkan kami. Semuanya bergegar,” kata saksi Ahmed Mussa.

    “Saya terkejut melihat (serangan) berlaku di rumah jiran kami, keluarga Al-Ghoul. Ia adalah rumah kepada kanak-kanak, wanita. Tidak ada sesiapa yang dikehendaki atau yang menimbulkan ancaman.”

    Di tempat lain, agensi pertahanan awam berkata lima pegawai keselamatan, yang ditugaskan untuk mengiringi konvoi bantuan, terbunuh oleh serangan Israel ketika mereka dalam sebuah kereta dipandu di bandar selatan Khan Yunis.

    Bassal menuduh Israel “sengaja menyasarkan” mereka untuk “menjejaskan rantaian bekalan kemanusiaan dan meningkatkan penderitaan” penduduk.

    Tentera masih belum menjawab tuduhan itu.

    Penyelamat tempatan juga berkata tiga ahli keluarga yang sama, termasuk seorang kanak-kanak, terbunuh apabila rumah mereka dibom di Khan Yunis.

    Kempen tentera Israel telah membunuh sekurang-kurangnya 45,717 orang di Gaza, majoriti daripada mereka orang awam, menurut angka dari kementerian kesihatan wilayah kendalian Hamas yang dianggap oleh Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) boleh dipercayai.

    AN-AFP

  • Gaza civil defense says 19 killed in Israeli strikes

    GAZA STRIP – Rescuers in Gaza said on Saturday that at least 19 people, including eight children, were killed in Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory.

    According to the civil defense agency, an air strike at dawn on the house of the Al-Ghoul family in Gaza City killed 11 people, seven of them children.

    “The home, which housed several displaced people, was completely destroyed,” said civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal.

    “It was a two-story building and several people are still under the rubble,” he added, saying Israeli drones had “also fired on ambulance staff.”

    Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army did not immediately comment on the strike.

    AFP images from the neighborhood of Shujaiya, in the east of Gaza City, showed residents combing through smoking rubble and bodies lined up on the ground, covered in white sheets.

    “A huge explosion woke us up. Everything was shaking,” said witness Ahmed Mussa.

    “I was surprised to see (the strike) was on the house of our neighbors, the Al-Ghoul family. It was home to children, women. There wasn’t anyone wanted or who posed a threat.”

    Elsewhere, the civil defense agency said five security officers, tasked with accompanying aid convoys, were killed by an Israeli strike as they were driving in a car in the southern city of Khan Yunis.

    Bassal accused Israel of having “deliberately targeted” them in order to “affect the humanitarian supply chain and increase the suffering” of the population.

    The army has not yet responded to the accusations.

    Local rescuers also said three members of the same family, including a child, were killed when their house was bombed in Khan Yunis.

    Israel’s retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 45,717 people in Gaza, the majority of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry which the United Nations considers reliable.

    AN-AFP

  • Rusia pintas 4 dron di wilayah Leningrad

    ST PETERSBURG – Empat dron ditembak jatuh di Wilayah Leningrad Rusia, kata Gabenor wilayah Alexander Drozdenko pada Sabtu.

    “Malam dan pagi 4 Januari menyaksikan sejumlah rekod UAV musnah. Empat pesawat ditembak jatuh di Wilayah Leningrad dengan menggunakan senjata peperangan elektronik dan kecil,” tulis Drozdenko dalam catatan di Telegram.

    Dia berkata tiada kemalangan jiwa atau kerosakan dan amaran ancaman dron telah dibatalkan.

    Lapangan Terbang Pulkovo di St Petersburg mengenakan sekatan penerbangan sementara dua kali semalaman dan pada waktu pagi untuk kebimbangan keselamatan.

    XINHUA

  • Russia intercepts 4 drones over Leningrad region

    ST. PETERSBURG — Four drones were shot down in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast, regional Governor Alexander Drozdenko said Saturday.

    “The night and morning of Jan. 4 saw a record number of UAVs destroyed. Four aircraft were downed over the Leningrad Oblast with the use of electronic warfare and small arms,” Drozdenko wrote in a post on social media Telegram.

    He said there were no casualties or damages and the drone threat warning has been cancelled.

    Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg imposed temporary flight restrictions twice overnight and in the morning for safety concerns.

    XINHUA