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You’re going to hear a lot of flowery language out of WBD executives today, but the reason they’re splitting the company is they failed to convince Wall St that merging Discovery and WarnerMedia created any significant value relative to the debt that hovered over the company.

252 likes6 repliesPosted Jun 9, 2025

View the original on X Written by Alex Sherman. Captured Sep 4, 2026.

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Hook: Speaks directly to you
Structure: Hook
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: plain, matter-of-fact
Mechanisms: Curiosity gap
Written for: Founders, marketers and operators

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