ANALYSIS: TRUE. Comcast Split Shows Bigger Is No Longer Seen As Better In The Media Business. “Things have been trending this way for a while, with AT&T’s ill-starred $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner helping to cement the idea that it was possible to be too diversified. Long gone are the days of Redstone or Murdoch empire-building, or GE’s Six Sigma spell-casting.”

Disney was supposed to be too big to fail after buying out every studio it could, but look at what’s become of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Marvel under its stewardship.