The dog days of summer can be a drag on the media beat. After Sun Valley, Hollywood moguls disperse to yachts in the Mediterranean and Aegean, weddings in St. Tropez, or pastoral second, third, or fourth homes in the South of France and the American West. Manhattan media execs and their most well-paid talent retreat, as often as they can, to the Hamptons or Hudson Valley or Martha’s Vineyard. And even the employees tethered to their responsibilities in New York or Washington usually work from home, to beat the heat or avoid Covid exposure. The entire industry seems to have disbanded, time zones misalign, and it becomes hard to pin people down.