Politics And The AT&T-Time Warner Merger

By Randy Gordon, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP ( November 7, 2016, 2:50 PM EST) -- In his 1946 essay, "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell opined, "In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." His specific purpose in the essay was to show how the sort of routine evasions and euphemisms that are embedded in and characterize modern political discourse debase the English language and — in a feedback loop — further debase political discourse. But his more general point — namely, that politics seeps into everything — is one that is mostly self-evident nowadays....

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