🚀 go-pugleaf

Your cites (Lichter, '83, '85) are so old as to not be
believable anymore. Since '85, GE and Disney have both
purchase formerly independent powerhouse studios (CBS and
ABC) , and Murdoch has increased his empire by 1000 percent.

Your fear of Jews is a little unfounded in today's world.


"Carl" <aydt2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> mjones@mails.private (Mike Jones) wrote in message
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> > By Dr Kevin MacDonald
> > http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/Preface.htm
> >
> > "The phenomenal concentration of media power in Jewish
hands
> > becomes all the more extraordinary when one notes that
Jews
> > constitute approximately 2.5% of the U.S. population. If
the
> > Jewish percentage of the American media elite is
estimated at 59%
> > (Lichter et al. 1983, 55 )- probably an underestimate at
the
> > present time, the degree of disproportionate
representation may
> > be calculated as greater than 2000%. The likelihood that
such an
> > extraordinary disparity could arise by chance is
virtually nil."
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > JEWS AND THE MEDIA: SHAPING "WAYS OF SEEING"
> >
> > I noted above that Jewish movements opposing European
domination of
> > the U.S. focused on three critical areas of power: The
academic world
> > of information in the social sciences and humanities,
the political
> > world where public policy on immigration and other
ethnic issues are
> > decided, and the mass media where "ways of seeing" are
presented to
> > the public. CofC (Culture of Critique) focused on the
first two of
> > these sources of power, but little attention was given
to the mass
> > media except where it served to promote Jewish
intellectual or
> > political movements, as in the case of psychoanalysis.
This lack of
> > attention to the cultural influence of the mass media is
a major gap.
> > The following represents only a partial and preliminary
discussion.
> >
> > By all accounts, ethnic Jews have a powerful influence
in the
> > American media - far larger than any other identifiable
group. The
> > extent of Jewish ownership and influence on the popular
media in the
> > United States is remarkable given the relatively small
proportion of
> > the population that is Jewish.  In a survey performed in
the 1980s,
> > 60 percent of a representative sample of the movie elite
were of
> > Jewish background (Powers et al. 1996, 79n13). Michael
Medved (1996,
> > 37) notes that "it makes no sense at all to try to deny
the reality
> > of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any
list of the
> > most influential production executives at each of the
major movie
> > studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably
Jewish names.
> > This prominent Jewish role is obvious to anyone who
follows news
> > reports from Tinsel Town or even bothers to read the
credits on major
> > movies or television shows."
> >
> > Media ownership is always in flux, but the following is
a reasonably
> > accurate portrait of current media ownership in the
United States by
> > ethnic Jews:
> >
> > The largest media company in the world was recently
formed by the
> > merger of America On Line and Time Warner. Gerald M.
Levin, formerly
> > the head of Time Warner, is the Chief Executive Officer
of the new
> > corporation. AOL-Time Warner has holdings in television
(e.g., Home
> > Box Office, CNN, Turner Broadcasting), music (Warner
Music), movies
> > (Warner Brothers Studio, Castle Rock Entertainment, and
New Line
> > Cinema), and publishing (Time, Sports Illustrated,
People, Fortune).
> >
> > The second largest media company is the Walt Disney
Company, headed
> > by Michael Eisner. Disney has holdings in movies (Walt
Disney Motion
> > Pictures Group, under Walt Disney Studios, includes Walt
Disney
> > Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures,
Caravan Pictures,
> > Miramax Films); television (Capital Cities/ABC [owner of
the ABC
> > television network], Walt Disney Television, Touchstone
Television,
> > Buena Vista Television, ESPN, Lifetime, A&E Television
networks) and
> > cable networks with more than 100 million subscribers;
radio (ABC
> > Radio Network with over 3,400 affiliates and ownership
of 26 stations
> > in major cities); publishing (seven daily newspapers,
Fairchild
> > Publications [Women's Wear Daily], and the Diversified
Publishing
> > Group).
> >
> > The third largest media company is Viacom, Inc., headed
by Sumner
> > Redstone, who is also Jewish. Viacom has holdings in
movies
> > (Paramount Pictures); broadcasting (the CBS TV network;
MTV [a
> > particular focus of criticism by cultural
conservatives], VH-1,
> > Nickelodeon, Showtime, the National Network, Black
Entertainment
> > Television, 13 television stations; programming for the
three
> > television networks); publishing (Simon & Schuster,
Scribner, The
> > Free Press, and Pocket Books), video rentals
(Blockbuster); it is
> > also involved in satellite broadcasting, theme parks,
and video
> > games.
> >
> > Another major media player is Edgar Bronfman, Jr., the
son of Edgar
> > Bronfman, Sr., president of the World Jewish Congress
and heir to the
> > Seagram distillery fortune. Until its merger with
Vivendi, a French
> > Company, in December 2000, Bronfman headed Universal
Studios, a major
> > movie production company, and the Universal Music Group,
the world's
> > largest music company (including Polygram, Interscope
Records,
> > Island/Def Jam, Motown, Geffen/DGC Records). After the
merger,
> > Bronfman became the Executive Vice-Chairman of the new
company,
> > Vivendi Universal, and the Bronfman family and related
entities
> > became the largest shareholders in the company.29  Edgar
Bronfman,
> > Sr. is on the Board of Directors of the new company.
> >
> > Other major television companies owned by Jews include
New World
> > Entertainment (owned by Ronald Perelman who also owns
Revlon
> > cosmetics), and DreamWorks SKG (owned by film director
Steven
> > Spielberg, former Disney Pictures chairman Jeffrey
Katzenberg, and
> > recording industry mogul David Geffen). DreamWorks SKG
produces
> > movies, animated films, television programs, and
recorded music.
> > Spielberg is also a Jewish ethnic activist. After making
Schindler's
> > List, Spielberg established Survivors of the Shoah
Foundation with
> > the aid of a grant from the U.S. Congress. He also
helped fund
> > Professor Deborah Lipstadt's defense against a libel
suit brought by
> > British military historian and Holocaust revisionist
David Irving.
> >
> > In the world of print media, the Newhouse media empire
owns 26 daily
> > newspapers, including several large and important ones,
such as the
> > Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Newark Star-Ledger, and the
New Orleans
> > Times-Picayune; Newhouse Broadcasting, consisting of 12
television
> > broadcasting stations and 87 cable-TV systems, including
some of the
> > country's largest cable networks; the Sunday supplement
Parade, with
> > a circulation of more than 22 million copies per week;
some two dozen
> > major magazines, including the New Yorker, Vogue,
Mademoiselle,
> > Glamour, Vanity Fair, Bride's, Gentlemen's Quarterly,
Self, House &
> > Garden, and all the other magazines of the wholly owned
Conde Nast
> > group.
> >
> > The newsmagazine, U.S. News & World Report, with a
weekly circulation
> > of 2.3 million, is owned and published by Mortimer B.
Zuckerman.
> > Zuckerman also owns New York's tabloid newspaper, the
Daily News, the
> > sixth-largest paper in the country, and is the former
owner of the
> > Atlantic Monthly. Zuckerman is a Jewish ethnic activist.
Recently he
> > was named head of the Conference of Presidents of Major
American
> > Jewish Organizations, an umbrella organization for major
Jewish
> > organizations in the U.S.30  Zuckerman's column in U.S.
News and
> > World Report regularly defends Israel and has helped to
rejuvenate
> > the America-Israeli Friendship League, of which he is
president.
> >
> > Another Jewish activist with a prominent position in the
U.S. media
> > is Martin Peretz, owner of The New Republic (TNR) since
1974.
> > Throughout his career Peretz has been devoted to Jewish
causes,
> > particularly Israel. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli war,
he told Henry
> > Kissinger that his "dovishness stopped at the
delicatessen door," and
> > many among his staff feared that all issues would be
decided on the
> > basis of what was "good for the Jews" (Alterman 1992,
185, 186).
> > Indeed, one editor was instructed to obtain material
from the Israeli
> > embassy for use in TNR editorials. "It is not enough to
say that
> > TNR's owner is merely obsessed with Israel; he says so
himself. But
> > more importantly, Peretz is obsessed with Israel's
critics, Israel's
> > would-be critics, and people who never heard of Israel,
but might one
> > day know someone who might someday become a critic"
(Alterman 1992,
> > 195).
> >
> > The Wall Street Journal is the largest-circulation daily
newspaper in
> > the U.S. It is owned by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., a New
York
> > corporation that also publishes 24 other daily
newspapers and the
> > weekly financial paper Barron's. The chairman and CEO of
Dow Jones is
> > Peter R. Kann. Kann also holds the posts of chairman and
publisher of
> > the Wall Street Journal.
> >
> > The Sulzberger family owns the New York Times Co., which
owns 33
> > other newspapers, including the Boston Globe. It also
owns twelve
> > magazines (including McCall's and Family Circle, each
with a
> > circulation of more than 5 million), seven radio and TV
broadcasting
> > stations; a cable-TV system; and three book publishing
companies. The
> > New York Times News Service transmits news stories,
features, and
> > photographs from the New York Times by wire to 506 other
newspapers,
> > news agencies, and magazines.
> >
> > Jewish ownership of the New York Times is particularly
interesting
> > because it has been the most influential newspaper in
the U.S. since
> > the start of the 20th century. As noted in a recent book
on the
> > Sulzberger family (Tifft & Jones 1999), even at that
time, there were
> > several Jewish-owned newspapers, including the New York
World
> > (controlled by Joseph Pulitzer), the Chicago
Times-Herald and Evening
> > Post (controlled by H. H. Kohlsaat), and the New York
Post
> > (controlled by the family of Jacob Schiff). In 1896
Adolph Ochs
> > purchased the New York Times with the critical backing
of several
> > Jewish businessmen, including Isidor Straus (co-owner of
Macy's
> > department stores) and Jacob Schiff (a successful
investment banker
> > who was also a Jewish ethnic activist). "Schiff and
other prominent
> > Jews like . . . Straus had made it clear they wanted
Adolph to
> > succeed because they believed he `could be of great
service to the
> > Jews generally' " (Tifft & Jones 1999, 37-38). Ochs's
father-in-law
> > was the influential Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, president of
the
> > AJCongress and the World Jewish Congress and the founder
of Reform
> > Judaism in the United States.
> >
> > There are some exceptions to this pattern of media
ownership, but
> > even in such cases ethnic Jews have a major managerial
role
> >
> > Even granting the exceptions, it is clear that Jews
enjoy a very
> > powerful position in U.S. media, a position that is far
more powerful
> > than any other racial/ethnic group. The phenomenal
concentration of
> > media power in Jewish hands becomes all the more
extraordinary when
> > one notes that Jews constitute approximately 2.5% of the
U.S.
> > population. If the Jewish percentage of the American
media elite is
> > estimated at 59% (Lichter et al. 1983, 55)-probably an
underestimate
> > at the present time, the degree of disproportionate
representation
> > may be calculated as greater than 2000%. The likelihood
that such an
> > extraordinary disparity could arise by chance is
virtually nil. Ben
> > Stein, noting that about 60% of the top positions in
Hollywood are
> > held by Jews, says "Do Jews run Hollywood? You bet they
do-and what
> > of it?"  Does Jewish ownership and control of the media
have any
> > effect on the product? Here I attempt to show that the
attitudes and
> > opinions favored by the media are those generally held
by the wider
> > Jewish community, and that the media tends to provide
positive images
> > of Jews and negative images of traditional American and
Christian
> > culture.
> >
> > ------------
> > Taken from:
> >
> > Preface to the First Paperback Edition of
> > The Culture of Critique
> > Bloomington, IN: 1stBooks Library
> >
> > Kevin MacDonald
> > Department of Psychology
> > California State University-Long Beach
> > Long Beach, CA 90840-0901
> > kmacd@csulb.edu
> >
> > November 2001
> >
> > Full article at:
> > http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/Preface.htm
>
> I suppose this warping of the media's output lead to the
dissident
> slogan re: New York Times, "All the news to suit the
Jews".
>
> Bob