Sumner Redstone Has Street Named After Him In New York’s Times Square
#Executives #News #NewYorkCity #Paramountglobal #ShariRedstone #SumnerRedstone #TimesSquare

https://deadline.com/2024/10/sumner-redstone-paramount-new-york-street-named-after-him-times-square-1236106094/

Matthew Perry’s Drug Dealer Was Once Scarlett Johansson’s Director and ‘Surreal Life’ Producer
#Business #BusinessNews #Ketamine #MatthewPerry #ScarlettJohansson #SumnerRedstone

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/matthew-perry-killer-drug-dealer-scarlett-johansson-director-1235976422/

Hollywood giant Paramount Global braces for new era as bidders circle https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/05/paramount-pictures-future-shari-redstone- #ParamountPictures #Television&radio #SumnerRedstone #SonyPictures #Paramount+ #Business #Titanic #Media #Film #CBS

CJ Group’s Miky Lee to Give USC School of Cinematic Arts Commencement Address
#MovieNews #Movies #Jamesgray #JayRoach #Parasite #SumnerRedstone #USC

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cj-group-miky-lee-usc-commencement-address-1235875540/

As opposed to the legalization of #SumnerRedstone's feelings about his daughter & #LilianeBettencourt's obsession with her photographer:
May the years-long #US music sector crash be due to judicial denial of evidence that #MichaelJackson's last will stands violated?
#CoolICanWait

May the argument for judicial prioritization of the family system be made via a number of grave (current & historic) financial precedents, e.g.:
#SumnerRedstone's feud with his daughter>Disastrous stock falls in the last month at @wbd, @NBCUniversal, @FOXCorp, etc.?
#CoolICanWait

Jonathan Dolgen, Longtime Viacom Entertainment Group Chairman, Dies at 78
#Business #BusinessNews #Obituaries #Paramount #SherryLansing #SumnerRedstone #Viacom

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/jonathan-dolgen-dead-viacom-1235614396/

Sumner Redstone: book reveals media mogul’s ‘astonishing saga of sex, lies and betrayal’

"a new account of the career of media mogul #SumnerRedstone, who died in 2020 at the age of 97, reveals just how awful, shocking and abusive that culture was at one of America’s biggest media empires."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/18/sumner-redstone-family-viacom-unscripted-book #books @bookstodon #media

"Sumner Redstone: book reveals media mogul’s ‘astonishing saga of sex, lies and betrayal’ -

"You use the corporate structure to keep people confused enough to maintain another kind of control,” Thompson pointed out. “You’ve got these bad behaviors that MeToo tried to exorcise, but that moves into a weird choreography of exploitation. Every element of this is a tale as old as time.”

Now a new account of the career of media mogul Sumner Redstone, who died in 2020 at the age of 97, reveals just how awful, shocking and abusive that culture was at one of America’s biggest media empires.

It paints a fresh picture of a corporate culture that believed that so long as the stock went up, and complex C-suite power games were in play, there was no compelling reason to place checks on the appetites of those whose need for control spanned institutional and sexual power."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/18/sumner-redstone-family-viacom-unscripted-book

#Capitalism #CorporatePower #Discrimination #MeToo #SumnerRedstone #Viacom #Paramount #CBS #MTV #ComedyCentral #Nickelodeon #SimonandSchuster #Abuse #Media #CorporateGreed #FilmIndustry #Television

Though it's often misattributed to Bill Gates, Sumner Redstone popularised the phrase "content is king" which was used in a 1974 book, and pre-dates even that.

https://lgkmarketingcc.com/content-king-said-better/

The book seems to be J. W. Click, Russell N. Baird, Magazine Editing and Production. W. C. Brown Company, 1974, 274 pages

https://www.worldcat.org/title/magazine-editing-and-production/oclc/1009138

https://books.google.com/books?id=lMpHwLnvsvAC&q=%22content+is+king%22&dq=%22content+is+king%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwiLK2q5brAhVOK80KHdbBDu0Q6AEILTAB

Earlier appearances in the 1960s refer to educational films:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/toward-improved-learning-a-collection-of-significant-reprints-for-the-medical-educator/oclc/855419713

https://books.google.com/books?id=LiQgAQAAMAAJ&q=%22content+is+king%22&dq=%22content+is+king%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi87Kaoq5brAhUYCs0KHdwWC2QQ6AEIMDAB

Aguments over provenance notwithstanding, my view is that the aphorism is a convenient bit of stage distraction attractive to media monopolists themselves aware of the real truth: network control is emperor.

And this goes beyond just getting the proprietor's cut, the vigorish, skimming your 5, or 10, or 30%.

Central control of a network means deciding what that network is. Where it begins, where it ends, what goes in, what comes out, who can receive, who can send, what interactions are possible, speeds and latencies, what messages are heard, what are not, who pays, who gets paid, who plays for free.

These factors are wholly ignored by contemporary US (Borkian) antitrust doctrine.

It's not just the vig.

#ContentIsKing #NetworkIsEmperor #SumnerRedstone #media #power #monopoly #obituary