The AT&T and Discovery megadeal has a possible silver lining for streaming customers

Obviously, it would have been even better had billions not been wasted trying to turn a stodgy telecom into The Future of Entertainment. And though hindsight is 20/20, I’m going to go out on a limb and say it was predictable that this deal, too, was likely to fizzle, because the rationales for both mergers were remarkably similar. So were the problems.