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I Never Root for Megamergers, But Go, AT&T-Time Warner!
Trump wants to block the deal because he hates CNN. That's how dictators behave.
Trump's problem.
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In the spring of 2009, Comcast Corp. announced that it was buying NBCUniversal from General Electric and consumer groups were up in arms. The deal would make Comcast too powerful, they said, predicting that the company would use its size to squelch competition.
"Our greatest fear is that this Comcast merger will cause such a behemoth” that the combined company "will have the incentive and the ability to kill over-the-top video in its crib," said Gigi Sohn, then the president of Public Knowledge, a public interest group.