As the world knows by now, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive and owner of The Washington Post—-also the wealthiest man in the world—- accused the owner of The National Enquirer on Thursday of attempting to extort and blackmail him by using racy photos that Mr. Bezos had texted with his girlfriend, the former television host Lauren Sanchez. In what many characterize of a heroic move, Bezos posted a candid blog in which he pasted emails from the tabloid’s representatives who threatened to release the images if he did not stop investigating how they had obtained his texts. “Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks and corruption,” Mr. Bezos wrote.
Here is the illustration by Giacomo Bagnara in The New York Times’ weekend briefing. Clever, to the point and tells us a lot at a glance, which is what good news illustrations are all about.
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