An Agenda?
It was believed that there could be more to the whole issue. Time Warner was currently in a merging deal with AT&T.
The deal was worth $85 billion and the DOJ was currently trying to block the merger. Time Warner was currently the parent company for CNN.
Some experts believed that Trump’s accusations could become part of litigation in the matter.
The DOJ wanted to block the merger by suing and making it a legal matter. It was said the merger would benefit AT&T which was looking into profits.
Matt Wood said “when AT&T buys a lot of content, they use that content as a sword.” Matt Wood was the Policy Director at Free Press.
Whether the fake news allegations were to discredit the merger was uncertain. If that was the intention of the President then he needed another angle.
If the merger would be bad for consumers then build an argument based on that. Many a case had been won by proper arguments and sensible persons residing over the matter.
Fake news wouldn’t be any good, but calling true news fake would be even worse. Let’s hope the media gets it right and politicians allow the truth to be told.
