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AT&T/Time-Warner merger

Looks like The FCC is helping DOJ with there case against the evil empire AT&T & Time Warner merger which is a good thing Judge Leon should be thrown off the bench oh that's right he has a job lined up at AT&T. The judges in the next court do there job and rules in favor of the government and DOJ and also makes AT&T sell a whole lot more as they are back to 1980's level at the company.
 
Judge Leon is a conservative judge. The government made a liberal, anti-corporate case. The results are what you'd expect from a conservative judge.

If the government makes the same case, using the same dated metrics, it will lead to the same results.
 
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/appeals-court-wont-stop-at-t-time-warner-merger-1190713

Here is a new one

The government fails to convince the DC Circuit that the $85 billion deal would violate antitrust law.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is allowing the huge merger between AT&T and Time Warner to stand. On Tuesday, the appellate court ruled that the government had failed to prove that the transaction valued between $85 and $105 billion that would give the nation's largest telecom control over CNN, TBS and TNT amounted to enhanced leverage that would harm the marketplace.

"The government’s objections that the district court misunderstood and misapplied economic principles and clearly erred in rejecting the quantitative model are unpersuasive," wrote Circuit Judge Judith Rogers for the panel.
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The DOJ shouldn't wave the white flag and go all the way to the supreme court don't let the evil empire that is AT&T win fight. The judges clearly don't know the law.
 
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...cnn-on-special-monitoring-list-citing-lack-of

Here is another reason why the AT&T/ Warner deal is getting attention again and its for CNN's Hiring practices.

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) said Tuesday that it would place CNN on a "special media monitoring list," citing a lack of black representation among the network's leadership ranks.

NABJ said in a statement that its preliminary research showed that CNN has no black employees reporting to CNN President Jeff Zucker. It also showed that the news organization has no black executive producers as well as no black vice presidents or senior vice presidents on the news side.

CNN disputed the group's finding that there are no black vice presidents on the news side, according to NABJ. But the news network did not provide the name or position of the vice president or vice presidents, NABJ said.

The NABJ said a four-person delegation sought to meet with Zucker but that the CNN president refused to do so because of "a personal issue between CNN and NABJ’s Vice President-Digital Roland Martin" stemming from Martin's participation in a 2016 town hall with then-Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
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