Since he took the helm of the newly merged Warner Bros. Discovery last year, the headlines about CEO David Zaslav have been relentlessly cringeworthy. Watch him being booed through his commencement address at Boston University. Read the toe-curling Atlantic profile of his handpicked CNN leader, whom Zaslav unceremoniously fired amid the meltdown that ensued. Witness the launch of a new streaming app, Max, being roundly mocked in the industry. See Zaslav’s smooth visage become the face of Hollywood fat-cat indifference to the demands of striking Hollywood writers and actors.
"How many private jets does David Zaslav need?" the progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mused into a bullhorn at a SAG-AFTRA rally in Manhattan this summer. "For real." (Zaslav’s representatives said he has access to WBD’s corporate jet but does not own one personally.)
