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White House Could Use AT&T/Time Warner Deal As 'Leverage' Against CNN (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via Ars Technica: AT&T seems to be on track to close its purchase of Time Warner Inc., but President Donald Trump's hatred of Time Warner property CNN could still be a "wild card" in the deal. Trump's feud with CNN was described yesterday in a New York Times article titled "The Network Against the Leader of the Free World." Within that article is one tidbit that could affect AT&T's proposed $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner, which owns CNN and other media properties such as HBO and Turner Broadcasting System: "White House advisers have discussed a potential point of leverage over their adversary, a senior administration official said: a pending merger between CNN's parent company, Time Warner, and AT&T. Mr. Trump's Justice Department will decide whether to approve the merger, and while analysts say there is little to stop the deal from moving forward, the president's animus toward CNN remains a wild card."
Separately, The Daily Caller wrote today that Trump doesn't want the merger to be approved unless CNN President Jeff Zucker is fired. The conservative news website attributed the information to "a source familiar with President Trump's thinking." Zucker told the New York Times that the pending merger has not affected his journalistic or management decisions.
Separately, The Daily Caller wrote today that Trump doesn't want the merger to be approved unless CNN President Jeff Zucker is fired. The conservative news website attributed the information to "a source familiar with President Trump's thinking." Zucker told the New York Times that the pending merger has not affected his journalistic or management decisions.
Goddamn facist asshole.
I'll take Obama for $1000 Alex
Oh dear, this is slashdot, you cant go telling people the truth here dude.
They dont want to know, they still praying for the Russian thing to be true despite reality having already interjected.
Oh, has the investigation been completed? No? Then how do you know? Or do you think it will be like when the Republicans investigated Hillary Clinton about Benghazi! over and over again, finding nothing but continuing to fuck that chicken anyway? Yeah, maybe it'll be like that.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
One legitimately inaccurate story but what stories about the dossier or any other Trump/Russia illegal connection have been found true? None. It's not about just CNN either, but the entire mainstream media. The entire mainstream media machine has been derelict in their duty to verify news before reporting it. To think that is anything other than malevolence at its source is asinine. The alternative is that the entire mainstream media machine is so blind/inept that they mistakenly published story after story that has turned out to be false about Trump collusion with Russia. So what has this administration ACTUALLY done that warrants this behavior? The worst thing Trump has done is repeatedly go off rude/half cocked on Twitter which, while super annoying regardless of anyone's political affiliation, isn't the criminal behavior Trump has been accused of. Every single action he has taken as president has resulted in a completely overblow reaction in the media. The temp travel ban for 6 countries identified as a concern by Obama's administration? OMG TRUMP HATES IMMIGRANTS AND IS BANNING MUSLIMS FROM THE U.S.! The Wall? OMG TRUMP IS RACIST AND HATES IMMIGRANTS! Repeal and replace the teetering failure that is Obamacare? OMG TRUMP HATES POOR PEOPLE AND WANTS THEM TO DIE! Pulls out of a Paris Climate Accord that has no demonstrable value other than to send money to the U.N. and third world countries? OMG TRUMP WANTS THE WORLD TO BURN!
I didn't approve of many of the things Obama did, but there was NEVER this level of excoriation of Obama by the mainstream media and that includes Fox News. Despite Obama popping off incorrectly on the Harvard professor and blaming the cops, or encouraging the divide in race in our country by saying Treyvon Martin is what his son would look like despite the legal evidence showing no crime was committed. Obama did more to purposely divide the country than any president before him or likely will after him. Yes people protested Obama, but generally in small numbers. Trump's divisiveness is passive, because it's actively caused through mainstream media and liberal crybabies numbering the millions who have protested his mere existence. RESIST! Don't think! RESIST! Because acting on verifiable, true information is not important anymore (CNN or otherwise)...>RESIST