{"id":580560,"date":"2022-03-30T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=238179"},"modified":"2022-03-30T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T08:43:09","slug":"att-fumbles-the-tyranny-of-big-telecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/30\/att-fumbles-the-tyranny-of-big-telecom\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T Fumbles:  the Tyranny of Big Telecom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2022, AT&#38;T completed the spinoff of its holdings in WarnerMedia to Discovery, a $43 billion transaction creating Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.\u00a0 In 2016, AT&#38;T announced its intention to acquire Time Warner and the deal was completed in 2018. \u00a0AT&#38;T promoted the spinoff as a way to ensure that WarnerMedia would be in a  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/30\/att-fumbles-the-tyranny-of-big-telecom\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/30\/att-fumbles-the-tyranny-of-big-telecom\/\">AT&#038;T Fumbles:  the Tyranny of Big Telecom<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/30\/att-fumbles-the-tyranny-of-big-telecom\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2022, AT&#038;T completed the spinoff of its holdings in WarnerMedia to Discovery, a $43 billion transaction creating Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.\u00a0 In 2016, AT&#038;T announced its intention to acquire Time Warner and the deal was completed i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580561,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580560\/revisions\/580561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}