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Father Figure: In a kind of Sumner Redstone Primer for the Ages, Patrick Goldstein compares the Viacom chairman to Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. Both men, he said, are allergic to losing, both head high-profile entertainment businesses and both (we’re paraphrasing here) are bat-shit insane.
Goldstein notes that Paramount is a mess, MTV lacks the autonomy it needs to capture the youth audience it supposedly represents and Redstone is too mercurial a character to notice his kingdom is falling apart.
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