People are saying mean things about Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav making $39 million last year (and $203 million the year before), but he earns every penny of it with brilliant business decisions like:
* repositioning CNN as light beer Fox News
* shelving the finished Batgirl movie
* greenlighting a 70+ hour Harry Potter remake nobody wanted
* inexplicably renaming HBO

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/warner-bros-discovery-ceo-david-zaslav-pay-39-million-2022-1235568306/

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay Revealed

Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav’s pay package topped $39 million in 2022, down considerably from the staggering figure he hit in the year prior, thanks to a massive $203 million sto…

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@maxkennerly Counterpoint: as an unemployed TV writer who might someday pitch at Max... or HBO? Or whatever it's called? I think David Sazlav is wise and kind and these are all great decisions.

@paulmather007 @maxkennerly I’d like to do more #TV #writing, too, Paul. Hope you get work, soon, & can share leads.

I was courtroom #writer for #hbo’s The Vow, Season 2 : https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/culture/vow-trials-within-trials-yahia-lababidi #media

The Vow: Trials within Trials, by Yahia Lababidi

A writer’s time attending the theatrical trial that became the docuseries The Vow leads him to reflect more generally on the culture-wide moral relativism and abuse of language that allow a cult leader to inflict his damage.

World Literature Today