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After the Latest Warner Bros. Discovery Shakeup, David Zaslav’s Legacy Looks Insecure
HBO and HBO Max are being spun off from other cable channels like Discovery and CNN. Why this decision sums up David Zaslav's tenure as CEO
Discovery calls to mind a line from one of the network’s great recent series: the business magnate Logan Roy telling his squabbling children “You are not serious people.” Much has been written about this CEO’s particular leadership style; it’s striking, though, how little a boss who came up in the lowbrow world of unscripted TV seems to understand or care how neatly he fits into a reality-TV-ready archetype, the rich and clumsy villain. But a sense that the marquee brand of contemporary TV is in unsteady hands isn’t what a typical CEO might hope to project, either to competitors or to the creative community.
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