David Zaslav wants to set CNN apart from ‘advocacy networks’
By Alexandra Steigrad
April 15, 2022 1:52pm
Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav wants CNN to focus on the facts and set itself apart from a cable-news industry that he says is monopolized by “advocacy networks.”
Zaslav, who took the helm of the new company this week, wasted no time laying out his vision for the media behemoth, which includes HBO, CNN, TLC, HGTV and movie studio Warner Bros. AT&T spun off WarnerMedia in a $43 billion merger with Discovery, which closed last Friday.
In an hour-long interview Thursday with Oprah Winfrey at a theater on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, Calif., Zaslav tackled questions about the future of CNN, as well as the company’s various streaming offerings and his $3 billion cost savings plan.
The CEO told Winfrey that CNN needs to be about reporting and truth and facts. “If we get that, we can have a civilized society,” he said. “And without it, if it all becomes advocacy, we don’t have a civilized society.”
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