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mjones@mails.private (Mike Jones) wrote in message news:<17E5PWZG37321.1722916667@frog.gilgamesh.org>...
> 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