# Professor Robert Salomon shares his views on AT&T's planned acquisition of Time Warner

1 Faculty News October 23, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/business/dealbook/att-time-warner-deal-confidence.html?_r=0) -- "By buying Time Warner — one of the most prestigious producers of television and film today, with brands including HBO, CNN and Warner Bros. — AT&T will suddenly become Comcast’s closest true rival. 'AT&T is trying to keep up with the Joneses,' said [Robert Salomon](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-salomon), a professor at the New York University Stern School of Business."

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