Moguls Descend on Sun Valley

Dan Cox, on special assignment for FishbowlLA, covering the 2008 Sun Valley Media Conference.

Media executives are packing their bathing suits, suntan oil, Blackberrys and iPods — they’re all going to summer camp. Well, their version of it.

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Media Conference invites about 200 media bigwigs and billionaire-type VIPs to his Sun Valley Lodge. It starts tomorrow with media luminaries like Viacom’s Sumner Redstone, News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, eBay’s Meg Whitman, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts co-founder Henry Kravis, Sirius’ Mel Karmazin, Viacom’s Philippe Dauman, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Sony’s Howard Stringer, former top dog at Time Warner Richard Parsons, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Warner Music’s Edgar Bronfman Jr.,

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