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This is great. Unless Trump is doing this for a petty grudge, then it is super fucked up.

They should split nbc from comcast as well.




Which he is. [1]

I'm all for antitrust, but to block this (which is a largely orthogonal merger), break up Sinclair first.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/business/att-time-warner-...


The problem is that the government has such arbitrary power to begin with.

They don't even have the decency to pre-approve deals before the companies in question go out on a limb and announce the plan.




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