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CNN Staffers to Discovery Boss: Take Your Swag and Shove It!<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p><strong><em>This reporting appears as one of several scoops featured in this week’s edition of </em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article"><em>Confider</em></a><em>, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe </em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article"><em>here</em></a><em> and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.</em></strong></p> <p>After Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav said during a <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/09/warner-bros-discovery-merger-talks-david-zaslav-not-for-sale-town-hall-1235129580/">company-wide town hall</a> last week that he would give branded vests to all employees, some CNN staffers have a message for their overlords: Keep your cheesy gifts.</p> <p>Indeed, while <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-kills-off-last-remnant-of-cnn-lays-off-around-20-staffers">layoffs and cutbacks</a> continue to roil CNN, as Warner Bros. Discovery <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/warner-bros-discovery-to-lay-off-1000-people-starting-this-week">slashes billions from the budget</a>, some network staffers have grown tired of Zaslav’s approach. During last week’s town hall, he reassured staffers that despite the recent penny-pinching “we are not for sale”—an attempt to squash rumors of a Comcast merger—and made no mention of any pending layoffs. </p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-staffers-tell-discovery-boss-david-zaslav-take-your-swag-and-shove-it?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p> <p>Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tips">here</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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This reporting appears as one of several scoops featured in this week’s edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.

After Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav said during a company-wide town hall last week that he would give branded vests to all employees, some CNN staffers have a message for their overlords: Keep your cheesy gifts.

Indeed, while layoffs and cutbacks continue to roil CNN, as Warner Bros. Discovery slashes billions from the budget, some network staffers have grown tired of Zaslav’s approach. During last week’s town hall, he reassured staffers that despite the recent penny-pinching “we are not for sale”—an attempt to squash rumors of a Comcast merger—and made no mention of any pending layoffs.

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