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I don't see him waving a flag of distress. I do see him voicing his concern.
One of the paradigm shifts that has happened over the years is that the media has moved from the simple slant-bias to all out blantant talking head/anchor bias. The commentators have moved from the sidelines of junkets and segments to whole hour shows on all mediums.
I'm not so close to the Viacom floors anymore... I don't get the pulse like I used to from them, but Sumner has always been keen on independent investigations which are paid for by Viacom so it's not really all that "independent."
He's a shrewd businessman, so long as he's making money he's not going to push someone into any corners to conform.
a small tidbit about him: He doesn't use the computer on his desk, he mainly looks at the quotron screen which is a direct stock feed. if that's down for more than 5 minutes he can be very cranky.
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