AT&T spent $200 billion on DirecTV and Time Warner thinking it would dominate the media landscape. Instead it lost 8.5 million TV subscribers since 2017, fired a parade of people, pissed off thousands more, gutted numerous brands, then stumbled to the exit.

CNN: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) May 17, 2021