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Bari Weiss (Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press) and Kendall Roy (Photo: HBO)
Skydance’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery closed Tuesday, uniting two historic movie studios under David Ellison’s control. Until last year, Ellison had only run one media company, Skydance Media LLC; its largest investor was his father, the billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison. When David bought Paramount, he acquired The Free Press and installed its founder Bari Weiss as “editor-in-chief” of CBS News despite having no television experience and limited reporting experience.
Weiss — dramaturgically, you could say — has a lot in common with another media executive of little experience: Succession’s favorite failson, Kendall Roy. On Tuesday I collected a list of quotes from both and asked you to match the clusters of inchoate pitches and meaningless buzzwords to their media executive. The answer key is below:
