Former Trump adviser Page files court brief against the AT&T-Time Warner merger

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

The Justice Department lawsuit to block the proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger has an unexpected fan: former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

Page, who is not a lawyer, filed a proposed friend-of-the-court brief Tuesday arguing that consolidation between telecommunications and media companies "encourages extreme levels of journalistic recklessness and impropriety because it allocates considerable resources to the media outlets under their control."

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In Tuesday's filing, Page asserted that the proposed AT&T-Time Warner union would further the "telecommunications-media oligopoly" that he claims ensnared him during the 2016 presidential campaign.

He also contends that owners of these "overly enabled media outlets" can "conspire with their favored political actors to exclude contrarian perspectives" in a manner that is harmful to American democratic principles such as the First Amendment.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/12/carter-page-at-t-time-warner-merger-244494

[Fullduplexxx]

1. Kind of ironic . Att seemed to be a republican loving company now their little doggie

Has turned on them.

[poli-junkie]

2. What's their end game?

Trump regime wants to open door for Murdoch to buy CNN -- have CNN become reich-wing propaganda-lite.

[Historic NY]

3. +1

[SarasotaDem]

4. +1000

[Gothmog]

5. Who cares?

Why should anyone give a darn about what this idiot thinks?