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“CNN really stepped in it this time. I am sure their CEO will be pleased. Haha!”

ATT is in the process of buying Time Warner, CNN’s owner. ATT is a highly regulated business - its land and wireless telephone business is overseen by the FCC and to some degree state and local authorities when it wants to build or reconfigure infrastructure. It purchases wireless spectrum from the federal government. The Justice Department reviews its acquisitions. Many of the federal regulators have been or will be appointed by President Trump.

There have been press reports that ATT is very unhappy with CNN President Jeff Zucker’s conduct in the ongoing war between CNN and President Trump. ATT may fire Zucker or neutralize him by promoting him to a corporate executive job where he has no operational control over CNN. It is also possible ATT will divest CNN after the acquisition. In any event the ongoing war between Zucker and Trump is not healthy for ATT’s business.

While the elimination of Zucker, and toning down of CNN, may give conservatives and Donald Trump a temporary reason to celebrate, long term the acquisition of a major news network by a multinational telecommunications giant is unhealthy for 1st amendment freedom of speech and the press. The major news networks and newspapers are increasingly controlled by multinational corporations and billionaires. These corporations, and wealthy investors are part of the network of crony capitalism and big money that is killing representative government in this country.

Daily we see evidence where Congress, and government bureaucrats, represent the wealthy and corporate interests who finance their campaigns instead of the will of the people who voted them into office. Multinational corporations and wealthy billionaires support the globalist agenda (world government, open borders, deficit spending, regulation, offshoring of US jobs, and restrictions on individual freedom). The concentration of economic power is destroying the American economy and reducing liberty. The merger of ATT and Time Warner will only lead to more concentration of power and less freedom in the long run.

CNN really stepped in it this time.

Yep. I’ve heard it said that the 1st amendment gives the careless just enough rope to hang themself. A comedian does it with a bloody severed head and CNN does it by breaking the law.

Oops.

This is gonna leave a mark. If Hillary had won, her minions would have ignored such behavior. But that is not the world we live in now. :-)