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Top Stories Tamfitronics It started with the conspicuous TV news crews. “I get out of my car and see five media vans with the dishes and everything. It was weird. It’s very different than last year. There are reporters everywhere,” so relayed one Sun Valley attendee, speaking anonymously to The Hollywood Reporter for a July, 1999 news item in the trade daily.Until then, investment banker Herb Allen’s exclusive “summer camp for moguls” was said to be (mostly) free of large numbers of reporters roaming about asking executives outside the Idaho conference for quotes or looking for deal gossip. There were few of the candid images of Patagonia-fleeced execs — nametag and sunglasses on, to-go coffee cup in hand, warily eying a photographer — that now litter Getty Images annually, to be reused for M&A chatter...