David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, speaks to reporters as he arrives at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 9, 2024 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is declining to publicly take sides ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
Rather than backing political parties or individual candidates, what matters most to Zaslav, as he told reporters at Allen & Co.’s annual Sun Valley Conference, is having a president who is business friendly.
“We just need an opportunity for deregulation, so companies can consolidate and do what we need to to be even better,” he told Bloomberg.
This comes as members of the Hollywood and the entertainment industry, including George Clooney, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, media mogul Barry Diller,…
