The Weirdness of U.S. vs. AT&T

An important debate over media mergers, or just another attack on CNN?

The first thing to recognize about the antitrust trial over AT&T’s $85 billion plan to buy Time Warner -- which begins this week at the U.S. District Court in D.C. – is how fundamentally weird the whole thing is. Few really understand why the Justice Department decided to challenge the deal ...
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The Weirdness of U.S. vs. AT&T

Anachronism with a Kafkaesque Touch

Last Thursday, I received a message via Facebook messenger. The message’s author was (so it read) the Chief Censor of Israel’s Military Censor, one Colonel Ariella Ben-Avraham, and in it she demanded that I submit to the Censor’s warrant. Entering Ben-Abraham’s Facebook page showed a page that was almost empty ...

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Anachronism with a Kafkaesque Touch