AT&T fires back: The Tipline for 21 September 2018

We are back at the Federal Trade Commission for the second hearing on competition and consumer protection, today focusing on the state of US antitrust law and buyer and monopsony power. For now, we have coverage of AT&T’s appellate brief filed yesterday afternoon in the company’s fight to defend its merger with Time Warner against the Department of Justice’s antitrust division; and of Tribune Media’s reply to Sinclair Broadcasting in the litigious aftermath of their merger breakup.