[Mariner]

"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."

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.

[Steven Scharf]

Mariner wrote: 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 previously sold their cable operations to Charter Communications. The service will be rebadged Spectrum Cable at some point.