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David Zaslav’s Rocky Ride as Hollywood’s Newest Czar
- jseliger 4y agoOr, as Byrne put it, the author really writes about the decline of the entertainment mogul. When content gets matched to audiences based on algorithmic signals, it's harder for dealmakers and talent-spotters to have a place. After all, a dealmaker is just an inefficient implementation of an auction algorithm that sometimes takes sick days, and a talent-spotter is limited by both the scope of their attention and the biases in their taste.