Inside the Discovery-AT&T deal: Cute emails, a big loan and now, a media giant SECTIONS Inside the Discovery-AT&T deal: Cute emails, a big loan and now, a media giantBy John Koblin, Michael M. Grynbaum, Edmund Lee and Lauren Hirsch, New York Times Last Updated: May 22, 2021, 08:59 PM IST Share Synopsis In the predawn hours of April 1, David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery, arrived at a rented town house in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village — decorated with photos of rock stars and one of actor Steve McQueen in sunglasses holding a gun — to prepare for a meeting that would soon reverberate across the U.S. media industry.