The Department of Justice is using AT&T’s own argument for buying Time Warner to try to stop the deal
https://www.recode.net/2017/11/20/16682394/trump-administration-federal-government-doj-purhcase-att-time-warner-deal-block-hbo-cnn
The Comcast-NBCUniversal deal was bad. So the AT&T-Time Warner deal is worse — because it’s even bigger.
That’s the gist of the argument the Department of Justice made today, in a background briefing with reporters and in its press release announcing its lawsuit aimed at stopping the deal.