Warner Bros. Discovery is effectively killing Cartoon Network

Along with making Warner Bros. Discovery a less-diverse place overall, CEO David Zaslav's latest bit of corporate restructuring is probably going to gut Cartoon Network and turn it into a shadow of its former self.
For understandable reasons, Warner Bros. Discovery's move to fire 82 employees and eliminate 43 open positions from its Television division grabbed headlines when news of the decision broke earlier this week. But the implications of the company's plan to merge Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios may be much larger than what Warner Bros. Television CEO Channing Dungey recently implied in a company-wide internal memo.
According to Dungey's memo, Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, Warner Bros. Animation, and Cartoon...