Justice Department pushes back against AT&T–Time Warner merger with new demands

The US Justice Department is voicing new concerns over the approval of AT&T and Time Warner’s massive $85 billion merger deal first announced last year. According to a a report today from Reuters, regulators are now asking AT&T to put some of its assets up for sale or to offer comparable “structural remedies” that would make the unprecedented media consolidation less of an antitrust lightning rod. The DOJ remains the last barrier to the merger, as AT&T CFO John Step