Tag: AT&T Inc

Landline Users Remain Proudly ‘Old-Fashioned’ in the Digital Age

When millions of AT&T customers across the country briefly lost their cellphone service last month, Francella Jackson, 61, of Fairview Heights, Ill., said she picked up her well-worn Southwestern Bell push-button landline phone and called her friends “just so we could laugh at the people who could not use their phones.” “Why, isn’t it great […]

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The Impact of Lending Your Likeness to a National Ad Campaign

Our ability to influence how others react to us is finite. We can devise slight physical modifications, but the most conspicuous aspects of our appearance (skeleton size, vigor of melanin production) remain largely fixed. We can design our own behavior but make only educated guesses as to how it will be received. If your face, […]

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How David Zaslav Blew Up Hollywood

It was April 2022, and David Zaslav had just closed the deal of a lifetime. From the helm of his relatively small and unglamorous cable company, Discovery, he had taken control of a sprawling entertainment conglomerate that included perhaps the most storied movie studio on the planet, Warner Brothers. The longtime New Yorker had always […]

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