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of competitive harm—that when you combine content assets like Time Warner’s programming with distribution assets like AT&T’s DirecTV—the company can force distributors to pay higher rates and favor its own operations over rivals. who are AT&T’s rivals, it’s much more awkward to attack their own witness. (Turner, as a division of Time Warner, is part of the defense.) Their cross-examination has tried instead to show that Time Warner has no incentive to black out distributors. For instance, Coleman Breland, another Turner executive, said that cutting off Dish cost the company more than $30 million. If the government’s argument succeeds, it will be bad news for a lot of media companies seeking to do deals. Comcast has particular reason to worry. Mr. Jhaveri expects that the DOJ will use upcoming Comcast witnesses to expose the flaws of the company’s consent decree, in which it agreed to certain conditions in its 2011 takeover of NBC. As we track news world wide, we're also monitoring daily your blogs and anything that Pinterests your company than us -- a company that spends its day capturing relevant,