Last week, a source who happened to have been in Warner Bros. Discovery’s corporate offices on Park Avenue South relayed an intriguing observation: The executive suite where David Zaslav and his top deputies keep their New York offices had effectively been cordoned off, visitors were not being allowed onto the floor, and Zaz’s charges appeared to be in triage mode. It may have been more innocuous than the source surmised—they may have simply been preparing for today’s devastating corporate earnings call. But, in the dog days of summer, it was exactly the sort of detail that provoked curiosity among both the Hollywood and East Hampton chattering classes and trouble starters. A game of telephone ensued as Zaz held it down in Paris.