AT&T-Time Warner: DOJ plans to call media rivals to testify against $85B deal

The Justice Department is turning to some of the nation’s biggest media and telecommunications companies to aid in its effort to block AT&T’s (NYSE: T) proposed takeover of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), asking lawyers and officials from these outfits whether the companies’ executives would consider becoming government witnesses when the case goes to trial, the Fox Business Network has learned.