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More departures of former Viacom senior executives from Paramount Global in the wake of Baklish’s firing.

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[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

At this point, I want whatever's going to happen to happen already...

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

All I can muster to care about is story is the thought that my personal data, collected via their mobile app, might be changing companies on a thumb drive, at the same time.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, now I know who was the executive on the org chart responsible for all of Viacom and more recently Paramount Global’s stunningly awful corporate strategic communications.

There have been a lot of senior or management changes one tier down since the merger, but perhaps what was really needed was for Baklish and his top VPs to exit.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's hard to speak in defense of their comms over the past few years.

I've never had an overly bad impression of Bakish, though - at the very least, he didn't make a total ass of himself during the strikes, and seems better than, say, Zaslav over at Warner.

But as always, there are no true "good guys" at this level.