Doomed to fail from the start: The AT&T & Time Warner merger — Mistakes Were Made

In 2016, AT&T bought Time Warner for $85.4 billion. The merger brought Time Warner and all its holdings (CNN, Warner Brothers, DC Comics and HBO) under the same umbrella as AT&T telecommunications holdings including DirecTV. The pairing seemed odd when it was announced. A telecommunications company and content company? Most of us assumed there were…