A judge just approved an enormous media consolidation that spells disaster for independent media voices. Ana Kasparian, Brett Erlich, Mark Thompson, the ...
========== THERE IS A
NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE ONGOING ATT, TIME WARNER MERGER STORY AND IT HAS BEEN
OKAYED BY THE COURTS, SO THIS $85 MILLION MERGER THAT,
BILLION, DID I SAY MILLION? THAT IS A BIG NUMBER. THAT IS A ROUNDING ERROR. SORRY, 85 BILLION-DOLLAR
ERROR, IT IS AN $85 BILLION ACQUISITION. JUDGE RICHARD LEON OKAYED IT
WITHOUT CONDITIONS. HE SAID, ACCORDING TO REPORTS ON
CNN, WHICH TIME WARNER OWNS: TRUMPS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WAS
AGAINST US AND WE WILL GET INTO WHY HE MAY OR MAY NOT BEEN FOR
THIS LATER BUT MAKAN DELRAHIM SAID: WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK OF THIS
GOING THROUGH? IS A COMPLETE
DISASTER FOR INNOVATION, CONSUMERS, FOR THE PRICES THAT WE WILL PAY AND
THE LACK OF OPTIONS THAT WE WILL HAVE AND WE HAVE ALREADY
EXPERIENCED WHAT IT IS LIKE TO HAVE LITTLE TO NO OPTIONS WHEN
IT COMES TO CA...