“Final thought, about accountability. Readers who have followed the story will know that Stankey, the senior AT&T executive quoted above, is now the AT&T CEO. He was clearly very closely connected with the DirecTV deal and tasked with important parts of its execution — and he was integral to the Time Warner deal, as well. Both deals were very big and turned out quite badly. Stankey got promoted. That tells you something about AT&T.”
Yes indeed, it tells you something. Last paragraph about recent DTV sale.