Media Moguls Gather for Summer Camp

Reuters reports Major media executives packed their bathing suits, BlackBerrys and iPods this weekend and headed for their version of summer camp — the annual gathering put together by financier Herb Allen in this exclusive resort.

For five days beginning Tuesday, several hundred media mavens of all stripes will sit through confabs and participate in informal business discussions on topics as far-ranging as Iraq, the economy and the Googling of everything.

Though they wouldn’t put it this way, they also get to look and feel important — and watch veterans like Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone in shorts, sipping cool drinks and looking debonair with their much younger wives.

Last year, the trendy topic was “Content Is King”; this year, Allen & Co.

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