AT&T’s Defense Invokes Big Tech Terror

That is a distraction from the question of whether a merger would cause immediate harm now

Big tech has become the ubiquitous enemy. President Donald Trump blasts Amazon for hurting the United States Postal Service. Media companies resent Google for destroying their advertising model and aggregating news. Everyone hates Facebook. That menace was invoked frequently last week by chief executives Jeff Bewkes of Time Warner and Randall Stephenson of AT&T.

The two CEOs were testifying as AT&T’s final witnesses in the U.S. government’s lawsuit to block the merger of the two companies. They made the case that the...