Comments on: Earnings Call: Time Warner’s Bewkes Brings Up The ‘A’ Word — Acquisition http://paidcontent.org/2009/07/29/419-earnings-call-time-warners-bewkes-brings-up-the-a-word-acquisitions/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Elliot Spitzer http://paidcontent.org/2009/07/29/419-earnings-call-time-warners-bewkes-brings-up-the-a-word-acquisitions/#comment-72853 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:21:03 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/07/29/419-earnings-call-time-warners-bewkes-brings-up-the-a-word-acquisitions/#comment-72853 Bewkes should have been left running HBO. What sort of MBA BS speak is “Any acquisition needs to provide an attractive risk-adjusted return, compared to other uses for our capital— including buying back our own stock.”

Is this code for "I certainly have not been able to properly manage this company, witness my systematic destruction of AOL, so I guess I'll just keep looking for more bad deals that hopefully will not explode in my face."

Yawn! Buy some more stock, Jeff. You can't really screw that up.

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