I don’t know about this particular business combination being all that bad. As I understand it, Time-Warner owns programming; AT&T needs content for distribution. Time-Warner doesn’t own network type operations which disseminate political opinion.
I realize that the concentration of media power is a big problem, politically and culturally. But, I’m not sure this proposed merger is. I’ll reserve my opinion until more info comes out.
Time Warner has a cable company and ISP. They are small compared to AT&T, but it's there with millions of customers.
Time Warner owns multiple entities that distribute political content and opinion...most prominently CNN.
Oh, and right now AT&T buys content from every network without favoritism. Because they have no business interest in any of it. That would change with this deal.
I have the TWC Bundle. It’s gone out 4 times in the last 10 days. When that happens, I’m completely isolated as I don’t have a cell phone.