“Can’t they say anything nice about the guy?” one Time Warner executive remarked to me recently. John Stankey, who will oversee Time Warner’s media businesses if the deal goes through, is at least from Los Angeles, but he’s worked at AT&T for three decades. The company can seem a long way, at least culturally, from the kinds of products Time Warner makes at places like HBO, Turner Broadcasting and Warner Bros. Trump said early on that he didn’t like the AT&T-Time Warner mash-up, even threatening to kill it. I get the sense that these are aliens from Mars landing on Earth.”

Source: CNN October 29, 2017 21:56 UTC