Its All About CNN

[DonViejo]

November 21, 2017 at 9:04 am EST By Taegan Goddard

A USA Today editorial says the Trump administration’s decision to sue to block the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner “smacks of politics” because of the president’s vendetta against CNN.

Ever since the Nixon administration secretly meddled in antitrust policy, both parties have tried to keep raw partisan politics out of it. Presidents appoint certain types of lawyers to head the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission antitrust units, then leave them alone to conduct independent reviews that follow the facts and the law. At least that was the practice until Trump became president… None of this makes any sense outside of political vendettas. Turner Broadcasting is fairly small potatoes in terms of market power…

If the AT&T-Time Warner case goes to court, the administration is highly likely to lose, but not before wasting a lot of taxpayer and shareholder money on legal fees in the process.

The Chicago Sun Times concurs: “Trump is behaving again like a tin-pot dictator, trying to punish a media company that has dared to cover him honestly, aggressively and accurately.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/21/its-all-about-cnn/

[CatMor]

1. How did trump happen to this country...

It is hard to believe anyone out there still supports him. How did our country fall so far down this hell hole. Will we ever recover from this assault on decency. I'm looking forward to the day trump and his grifter family are shunned by all. Hope they also go broke.

[Maven]

2. Thanks Jeff Zucker for ruining CNN and helping to get Trump elected

with your nonstop coverage of his hate rallies and your stable of paid Trump sycophants to give "balance" to every discussion!

Well done, asshole!

[HughBeaumont]

5. +100. And it wasn't just them.

ALL cable media went dicks out for Schtroumpf, whether they admit to it or not.

[still_one]

3. and that is one of the strategies that AT&T is going to use to push back against the DOJ, along with

the precedents which have been set with Comcast, etc.

Normally, I would be against this merger, but just to throw this back in the asses face I am mixed.

Saw the AT&T CEO today on Bloomberg hinting that they will not allow the WH to subvert the first amendment. Of course he is alluding to the WH's blatant and visi

ble attacks against CNN

[Wellstone ruled]

4. All one has to remember is this,

Zucker was the Guy who pitched "The Apprentice" to NBC. And Zucker was one of the voices who bragged about how Donnie was giving him huge profits with his free publicity of Donnie.

Also,the CEO of AT&T was humiliated by Trump during the Boy Scout Jamboree.

Call it Trump vindictive payback. Nixon got his lunch handed to him when he tried to intervene in anti-monopoly .