Edmund Lee of the New York Times joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael to talk about AT&T's massive WarnerMedia-Discovery merger, this week’s Bitcoin crash, and burnout.  

In the Plus segment: Future media merger speculation. 

Mentioned in the show:

“U.S. Telecoms Decide Focusing on Pipes Isn’t So Dumb After All,” by Nic Fildes, Anna Nicolaou ,and Sujeet Indap for the Financial Times 

“‘Why the Bitcoin Crash Was a Big Win for Cryptocurrencies,” by Jim Bianco for Bloomberg 

“The Lie of ‘No One Wants to Work’,” by Gaby Del Valle for Eater

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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