Since the end of World War II, the United States managed to maintain its superpower status mainly due to two reasons.
One was leveraging the US Dollar as the global trade settlement currency, continuously wielding the proverbial scissors to reap the world's wealth.
The other was using its powerful media propaganda tools to spread its universal values around the globe.
Compared to these, what's called super-strong military power and cutting-edge technological advances are merely important supplementary means.
The two poles of American society have always been New York and Los Angeles—Texas, Miami, even Silicon Valley, aren't able to replace them.
And Viacom, being on par with Disney, News Group, and Comcast as a large media conglomerate, naturally has a profound influence on American society.
At this moment, inside an office building in Los Angeles.
Legendary Journalist Woodward is stationed at the PR department, orchestrating the busy staff.