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DOJ antitrust chief suggests CNN contributed to AT&T-Time Warner victory

By Joe Williams
Published June 27, 2018 6:49pm ET
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DOJ antitrust chief suggests CNN contributed to AT&T-Time Warner victory
"I expect to cut back on the number of long-term consent decrees we have in place and to return to the preferred focus on structural relief to remedy mergers that violate the law and harm consumers," Makan Delrahim, the head of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, said Thursday to the American Bar Association's fall conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) | (Cliff Owen/AP)

Time Warner assets like CNN helped the company overcome the federal government’s challenge to its merger with AT&T, the Department of Justice’s antitrust chief suggested on Wednesday.

“We don’t have a 24-hour dedicated news channel to go out and spin our case to the American public and judges and others as some merging parties might,” assistant attorney general Makan Delrahim said on the Marketplace Morning Report. A CNN spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.

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