Re: owners and their political views

[Richard Chonak <rac@gabriel.cambridge.ma.us>]

> Actually, Mel doesn't strike me as being an overtly political type.

In contrast to, say, Sumner Redstone, whose influence on MTV political 
coverage was reported in January by Matt Drudge: 
  
http://www.drudgereport.com/mtv.htm
  When asked why MTV was not holding a Bush [inaugural] event this year,
  one MTV staffer in New York laughed: "He's not a Democrat."
  
  [and]

  The final decision not to celebrate the new president was made by
  Sumner Redstone, CEO of VIACOM, MTV's parent company, according to
  sources.

-_RC