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streaming, there was no shortage of dumb, wasteful spending. They paid their executives exorbitant compensation well out of

within them ) have turned their attention to all the usual tricks: layoffs,  pointless megamergers , price hikes, and

TV companies Dish and DirecTV finally recently announced they had proposed a pointless merger in a

The Sprint T-Mobile Merger, Heads Into Its Final Death Spiral Failures from the pointless-distraction dept Fri, Mar

off and fusion with Discovery — were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived

the whole AT&T–>Time Warner–>Warner Brothers Discovery merger process  has been a pointless mess , resulting in

its way to avoid laying the blame on Wall Street greed, outsized compensation for incompetent

AT&T–>Time Warner–> Warner Brothers Discovery mergers were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived

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of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV . That has involved chasing pointless “growth of growth

ve already noted how HBO and Discovery executives keep demonstrating the immense, pointless harm of media

of media mergers were some of the most destructive and pointless business efforts ever , resulting

Discovery  series of media mergers were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived

opinions to the Delaware Court of Chancery that is handling his compensation lawsuit. In the

the local economy, instead of funneling it to Comcast or AT&T executive compensation half a world

its way to avoid laying the blame on Wall Street greed, outsized compensation for incompetent

the whole AT&T–>Time Warner–>Warner Brothers Discovery merger process  has been a pointless mess , resulting in

AT&T–>Time Warner–> Warner Brothers Discovery mergers were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived

Discovery  series of media mergers were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived

quality gets worse. Companies are also increasingly chasing tax cuts and stock bumps via pointless megamergers . Early consolidation is

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of media mergers were some of the most destructive and pointless business efforts ever , resulting

of mergers were among some of the most destructive and  pointless “business deals” ever conceived

executives and owners are very obviously terrible at their jobs, hoovering up outsized executive compensation while competent reporters and

Comcast. For streaming video that has meant a lot of pointless mergers (and the

of media mergers were some of the most destructive and pointless business efforts ever , resulting

of things large corporations don’t want to do, like reducing insane executive compensation , accepting antitrust reform, prioritizing

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CEO Michael E. Reed, where this particular buck stops, made nearly $4 million in compensation last year. The

Street improved quarterly returns at any cost. That means a lot of pointless and harmful