By Sharon Waxman

Next week, the moguls of entertainment and media gather in Sun Valley to talk about dealmaking — the merging and the acquisitioning of the declining media business —  and no doubt the gossip of the day will be about Shari Redstone. 

Not about how she betrayed the bedrock principles of media ownership in settling with the Trump administration over a specious lawsuit involving “60 Minutes.” True, a mountain of editorials, tweets and official statements from non-profits and politicians are excoriating her for weakening the First Amendment and empowering a presidential bully.