Time Warner Merger Paper

At first, when I started this assignment, I dove into it digging around on the internet, going to the library, looking up the legal aspects of exactly what had been the technical violations of the laws governing this kind of business merging circumstance. Overwhelmed, and no closer to a clearer understanding of the situation at hand, I just happened to skim over the question again. Chapter 2. I felt this was a clear enough hint as to where to find what I was looking for. I read it, and don't know why I made it so much more difficult than it needed to be.
The lapses in ethics and coporate social responsibility in the AOL Time Warner situation were actually, quite obvious. Blatent, obvious, and in my opinion, even obscene. Although my knowledge of the actual facts surrounding the merger of AOL and Time Warner is
I feel AOL acted unethically, and without corporate social responsibility, but Time Warner failed as well in the area of corporate social responsibility. In my opinion, Time Warner, in essence, approached this mult-billion dollar merger as if it were a "crap shoot", to which the senior executives merely said, "All in!" and rolled the dice.
Time Warner had a responsibility to investigate the company whom they were intending on investing money in which did not belong to any involved individually. Although Time Warner's actions may be construed to have been with the best of intentions, there really isn't a "crystal ball" to foresee the future, however, there is no excuse for the negligence exercised in the lack of investigation to discover such discrepancies as the Justice Department and the Securities Exchange Commission found.
This type of business deal is not one which should be left to senior executives to decide alone. This should have been a decision made by the executives, the investors, even maybe the