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Why Mergers Like the At&T-Time Warner Deal Should Go Through

Harvard Business Review

Recent leaked reports suggest trouble for the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner, an $85 billion deal first announced over a year ago. Later stories reported it was AT&T that had offered to sell CNN. Britta Knappmann/EyeEm/Getty Images. A rational content owner would look for new markets, not foreclose them.