A GQ profile of controversial Warner Bros boss David Zaslav has gone missing.
The story, titled “How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood,” was up for less than 24 hours, and then, poof, gone out of thin air.
It’s not like it had a bombshell revelation in it either. Writer Jason Bailey’s piece was just regurgitating all of Zaslav’s issues with Hollywood, including the TCM scandal. It didn’t even mention his CNN problems.
No comment was issued about the retraction. It’s just been wiped clean from the GQ site. Where did it go? And why? We don’t know. Even a revised version for Yahoo news, cut down from 2000 to 500 words, has been nixed.
In the story, Bailey compares Zaslav to the Richard Gere character in “Pretty Woman” — both men, Bailey claims, buy companies to sell off their parts. Bailey, an angry little man if I every knew one, flames the hell out of Zaslav.
A little digging into the matter and you learn that GQ owner, Conde Nast, has an 8% stake in Warners Discovery. Can this explain the mystery sounding this missing GQ piece?
Of course, the internet never forgets and the original artivle has been archived for your reading pleasure. It’s not like it tells us anything new about Zaslav, there have been numerous scathing portraits of the man written these past few month, none of which got axed.