THIS IS CNN: Don Lemon goes berserker on Kaitlan Collins

People are really reaching to create narratives based on any kind of association you can latch onto. John Malone said something in an interview once before Warner Brothers was ever spun off by AT&T and merged with Discovery and. ... a ha!

Zaslav is playing to an audience of one, John Malone?

Zaslav has a board seat, just the same as Malone. So do 11 others, whose personal politics are all over the place. The single largest individual shareholder of Warner Brothers Discovery is Steven Newhouse (who is also on the board; quick let's find something he once said!), not John Malone. It's not even close. And there are a dozen or more institutions that own way more of the company than John Malone. Zaslav himself is a pretty significant shareholder in the company.

I get that people have narratives written and now they are going to find every "a ha" they can that demonstrates whatever narrative they want to create. But no, David Zaslav is not beholden to John Malone. If you were creating that kind of narrative, there are people with more influence over the company than John Malone. I am not saying Malone has no influence, but "audience of one" was way off. It's not like Zaslav doesn't have one board seat vote, same as Malone, and significant skin in the game, and that there aren't much bigger shareholders than John Malone.

 

Nobody needs to devise a new way to interview Donald Trump.

It's not like there has been some failure to inform the public about who Donald Trump is, what his character is like, the fact that he lies like it is a bodily function or the long list of shitty things he has done.

People know exactly who Donald Trump is. ... and something like 70 million people voted for him knowing exactly who he is.

The idea that he needs to be covered better --interviewed in a better way -- starts with the presumption that if only you could show people who he really is, you'd make the idiots that comprise the country not be who they are.

I'd actually argue that as big a disaster as that CNN Town Hall was in its execution, it was highly effective in showing Donald Trump for exactly who and what he is. *I* watched it, and I thought Trump was his usual douche self, he was ill informed and he told a lot of lies.

Most of the people who were / are objecting the loudest to the CNN thing are really angry that such a large number of people in this country just don't care.