Rima I Anabtawi: David Zaslav, the CEO of CNN’s parent company, at the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Tuesday: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

David Zaslav, the CEO of CNN’s parent company, at the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Tuesday: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Very notable that “friendly to business” means “won’t enforce antitrust law”!

And "friendly to business" means "further consolidation," which on the whole has been pretty destructive to business, as anyone who's followed Zazlav's career can attest.

...and the Biden admin has been the most aggressive in pursuing anti-trust/anti-monopoly practices than any presidency in my lifetime.

Also means “anti labor” tbh

And “anti-union”

Fuck this guy with a rented dick.

Listen you aren’t renting it, we call this Dicks as a Service. Maybe you need a dick today but won’t need one a few months down the line? This is making sure you have the exact number of dicks you need, when you need them.

Ahhh, the free market rides to the rescue once again.

We’ve been taken private by a hedge fund and recently transferred ownership of our inventory to a holding company called Dick Holders LLC, but we’re still contracting a second third party to run the app you order dicks from, though fulfillment and delivery will be managed by Dick Riders LLC now.

“As a bazillionaire, nothing bad will happen to me even if we go full-dictatorship, so I support whoever makes me 1% richer.”

Like, do even the oligarchs not realize that Russian Defenestritis is a disease that will spread to the US if Trump wins?

They're doing the "it might work for us" meme

“That would never happen he-“

Especially since there is now absolute immunity to do the thing! He is learning from the “best ppl”! & if the oligarchs stubbornly stay away from windows, there is always Novichok or Polonium tea!

"Dictatorship? No problem, as long as I don't have to deal with those pesky regulations!"

Exactly! Look how well that worked out in Germany in the first half of the previous century. What could go wrong? I mean, it's not like German businesses ended up in a heap of ruins. Oh, wait...

"I don't care which candidate wins as long as they cut taxes for the wealthy, deregulate, discriminate against minorities, and install Project 2025."

it doesn't seem like it's regulations that's caused expectations for your biz to dip, brah, but I think there's an answer in the mirror

“What do you care about Hitler?” Louis B. Mayer asked, “If they want you to say Heil Hitler, say Heil Hitler. What’s the difference?”

Zaslav is a MAGA fellow traveller who's learned he has to keep it under his hat. He and his ally John Malone—a Rupert Murdoch fanboy—want to turn CNN into a "both sides" Fox News clone in time for the 2024 elections.

Billionaire John Malone loves Fox News. But he owns a piece of CNN.www.vox.com One of the world’s most powerful news outlets has a new mandate.

Seems to me like it already happened

I should mention that Vox article is almost two years old. Since then CNN has hosted, disastrously, not only the recent debate but also a Trump "Town Hall" last year. Zaslav has long accepted which side his corporate bread is buttered on.

Amid CNN Trump Town Hall Backlash, Zaslav Defends Ex-President’s Appearance: ‘He’s the Front-Runner — He Has to Be on Our Network’variety.com Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav weighed in on CNN's controversial decision to host a town hall with former President Donald Trump.

Oh, that explains it, as well as the constant parade of has-been Republicans they already have lurking around for "commentary."

Oh my god he admit it dot gif

ALT VERSION:

Dude is capitalism in a human suit.

better at what david

"further consolidation" is the only way to keep the con going, it's like Amway for M&A.

“Make companies even better” translates to “making me even richer”

"To be even better" = to make more money no matter whom we hurt or oppress.

When all companies have consolidated into one company that rules us all David Zazlev will finally be free

Studies show that CEOs of big businesses tend to be sociopaths.

this guy is really not very smart every time he opens his mouth he makes it abundantly clear

"We"

Shareholders need to dump this guy.

Oligopolies are well known for the many public benefits they provide to... (checks notes) ...about 7 families total in a society.

Holy shit I miss when these guys were afraid to be so brazen about these things

even better?!?!?! Than the depths you've already sunk to?

By "deregulation," he means "will let us make a real-life, real-death Squid Game."

In fairness, Chris Nolan warned us about this guy years ago. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Christopher Nolan Rips HBO Max as “Worst Streaming Service,” Denounces Warner Bros.’ Planwww.hollywoodreporter.com Christopher Nolan: “Warner Bros. had an incredible machine for getting a filmmaker’s work out everywhere, both in theaters and in the home, and they are dismantling it as we speak."

this just epitomizes the thing that's absolutely killing idaho, fucking christ the weird non mormon mountain folk there are really cool but they're absolutely throttled and treated like shit nonstop by these business seeker fuckers

is instability good for business?

Consolidation is a bigger company selling a smaller cash heavy company off for parts near end of the quarter, so you can grift your investors again. Look how much money we've "made" off of my/CEO's "business model." He just needs a President who will let him steal more real value from the system.

It doesn't matter who...as long as it's definitely Donald Trump

speaking as a WBD employee, fuck this guy

Same and same.

Well, that explains quite a bit.

An opportunity for deregulation! Fuck we are all FUCKED

You could totally imagine this being said by business leaders in 1933 Germany

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