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The merger between AT&T and Time Warner is a problem, with or without CNN.

The Justice Department is requesting that AT&T-Time Warner sell off Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting, which includes CNN, before it would clear the merger.

WASHINGTON — The U.S Department of Justice has told AT&T executives that they may need to divest Time Warner’s Turner Networks — including CNN — for the regulator to approve AT&T’s multibillion-dollar acquisition of the media giant, according to several media reports on Wednesday.

As if the imminent threat to Net Neutrality were not bad enough, Free Press and other organizations are also reiterating the urgent need to preserve the Lifeline program.

Reports from The New York Times, CNN and other outlets, citing unidentified people, said the Justice Department wants to require the companies to sell Turner Broadcasting, which houses CNN, TBS and TNT; or to sell satellite TV provider DIRECTV, which AT&T bought in 2015.

Will AT&T give up on its quest for Time Warner if it can’t hang on to some of its most valuable assets?

What would happen if the politician you love to hate was indicted, but your local news didn’t report it? No newspaper stories, no TV news, no radio news on the hour, nothing.

Couldn’t happen? Think again.

It’s not clear whether the FCC’s recent elimination of a requirement for television stations to have local studios will affect KLEW.

There are whispers in political and media circles that President Trump may be trying to interfere with AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.

Attorneys general from four states have teamed up to ask the FCC to block the merger of Sinclair and Tribune.