WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar Responds To George Floyd Protests, Urging Empathy And Reflection On Storytelling In Internal Memo

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EXCLUSIVE: Jason Kilar, newly minted CEO of WarnerMedia, sent a company-wide memo Saturday to communicate his feelings about the George Floyd shooting and protests and indicate how the company shou…

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The senseless death of Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, punctuated by a gruesome viral video of policemen subduing him on the ground for nine minutes, has set off protests across the U.S. WarnerMedia’shas been at the center of the uprisings, with three of its news staffers arrested on air on Friday in Minneapolis and CNN headquarters in Atlanta being vandalized.

The CEO recommends staffers read or watch four stories during the weekend, one of which was a speech by activist and Run the Jewels rapper Killer Mike, whose given name is Mike Render. The son of an Atlanta police officer, Render tearfully and forcefully spoke out Friday against rioters damaging the community. He also had choice words for CNN, which he accused of sensationalist insticts. “I like CNN, I like Cartoon Network,” he said. “But I’d like to say to CNN: Karma’s a mother.

Kilar noted that Killer Mike had “some choice words for CNN which I disagree with, yet I believe in the balance of his message.”I am horrified by what has happened in our country recently as it relates to the treatment of the Black community. I suspect that most, if not all, of you are as well.First, I want to provide validation to the voices of our Black team members. Your voices matter, your messages matter. To me and to the world.

The second thing this email attempts to do, with a sense of urgency, is to increase our collective empathy for the Black community. In order to do so, I am going to lean into the foundation and very reason for being of this great company, which is story. Ours is a company that tells stories. And stories, told well, have the power to move people in lasting ways.

With the above as context, I am asking every WarnerMedia team member to consume the below four stories this weekend. Each of these stories has moved me and I hope that they will move each of you. Please take the time in a quiet place to let these stories sit with you. Read and watch them several times. Our journey as a human race is to ultimately attain compassion, wisdom, justice, and love. I believe the below stories can help move us closer to these ideals.

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