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11-21-2017, 01:32 PM
A very special thank you to Donald Trump for this AT&T/Time Warner fiasco
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President Donald Trump has done something that no other president has done before—and many journalists have tried and failed to do.
He turned a boring media merger into the corporate version of a soap opera. He made it interesting.*
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it will be filing a lawsuit to block AT&T's $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. It's just the most recent in a bizarre series of developments around what is a massively important move in the media world.*
Importance, however, doesn't mean public interest. Apart from the initial announcement, these kinds of deals tend to be pretty boring. Stories about antitrust, for example, aren't exactly on most people's must-read list. But they should be, assuming you like to watch HBO, use a smartphone to do just about anything, see movies, or read the news.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/20/trump-att-time-warner-cnn-thank-you/)
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President Donald Trump has done something that no other president has done before—and many journalists have tried and failed to do.
He turned a boring media merger into the corporate version of a soap opera. He made it interesting.*
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it will be filing a lawsuit to block AT&T's $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. It's just the most recent in a bizarre series of developments around what is a massively important move in the media world.*
Importance, however, doesn't mean public interest. Apart from the initial announcement, these kinds of deals tend to be pretty boring. Stories about antitrust, for example, aren't exactly on most people's must-read list. But they should be, assuming you like to watch HBO, use a smartphone to do just about anything, see movies, or read the news.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/20/trump-att-time-warner-cnn-thank-you/)
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