• NY Times, Monday, February 20, 2006 10:30 AM

What is it about the tykes of media tycoons? First Lachlan Murdoch tussles with papa Rupert, leading to his abrupt departure from the family store--News Corp. Then tensions emerge between Cablevision patriarch Chuck Dolan and heir apparent James. Now Brent Redstone is suing father Sumner in an attempt to dissolve the family business, National Amusements, which controls both CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. The family feud may indeed prove to be nationally amusing. Details of Brent's grievances, outlined in the suit filed last week, are, as The New York Times reports, "at first blush more lurid than threatening" to the Redstones' media empire. "But in taking on his pugnacious pop--all three Redstones are lawyers by training, by the way--perhaps Brent is finally showing that he is a Redstone after all," writes Times reporter Richard Siklos.

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