AT&T Inc.’s bid to buy Time Warner Inc. is blurring some of the ideological lines that usually split free-market conservatives from liberal skeptics of big business. On the left, some Democratic U.S. senators who questioned the deal earlier this year have avoided addressing the issue since the Justice Department sued to stop the $85 billion combination. State attorneys general who joined a similar campaign against Comcast Corp.’s 2011 takeover of NBCUniversal have likewise sat out the latest government effort to thwart...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 07, 2017 19:38 UTC