EditorialSumner Redstone in his New York office, Feb. 15, 1994. Redstone, the billionaire entrepreneur who saw business as combat and his advancing years as no obstacle in building a media empire that encompassed CBS and Viacom, died on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. He was 97. (Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times)
EditorialThen Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone in an undated photo on Jan. 18, 1996. Redstone, the billionaire entrepreneur who saw business as combat and his advancing years as no obstacle in building a media empire that encompassed CBS and Viacom, died on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. (Barton Silverman,Barton/The New York Times)