Proof of Jewish Media Domination

The corporate news media has the ability to manipulate the opinions of most of the people on almost anything, as well as put tremendous pressure on elected officials to enact laws and policies that the owners of the media are in favor of. It is more powerful than the oil companies, international banks, and the weapons industry combined.

The ability to manipulate the thoughts and opinions of the masses enables whoever controls the mass media to have near total control of the country by being able to manipulate the will of the people. For example, if the media bosses want the nation to go to war, or keep the borders open, or enact anti gun laws, they will only report the news that fits that agenda, all contradictory news will be suppressed or discredited with lies.

But the media bosses know that for them to have the ability to manipulate the people they must have credibility, or at least the illusion of credibility. Therefore, they must report the news in such a way as to not appear that they are minimizing some news stories and maximizing others. 

Here are some examples of media propaganda that have been used against the American people to advance a Jewish supremacist agenda:

  • The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a staged event to involve the U.S. in the Vietnam civil war. The controlled news media deceived the American people in to believing that the Tonkin incident was an attack on American naval vessels, and therefore should support the Presidents efforts to send troops to Vietnam. The reason why the Jewish elite wanted to involve America in this war was for its ability to distract the people while they destroyed American society from within. They wanted to corrupt American society as much possible by promoting homosexuality, race mixing, feminism, drug use, white guilt, and self indulgence. It is well known that the quickest way to overthrow a nations culture and society is a war to distract the people while their country is being changed from within.
    The Unicorn and that Jew Thing. National Security Archive.

  • In 1992 the corporate news media deliberately reported false information on a refugee camp in Bosnia. They made it took look like a Nazi concentration camp to trick the American people in to hating Serbia. This propaganda was used again in 1999 to increase support for the bombing of Serbia.
    Judgment!
    MythBusters: The "Death Camps" in Bosnia exposed
  • The World Trade Center towers fell into their own footprint at near free fall speed indicating that the structures were imploded in a controlled demolition, but even in defying the laws of physics the media propagated the governments lies by reporting that a fire caused it to fall in that way, and all other explanations were suppressed and discredited with lies. And the only country who benefited from the wars caused by this act was Israel.
    Loose Change 911 MissingLinks

  • All reports on Iran's nuclear program show no sign of a weapons element, yet the media still lies by reporting that Iran is developing or wants to develop nuclear weapons. The purpose is to scare the American people into supporting another unnecessary and illegal war for Israel.
    Iran: And the Beat Goes On. The beating of war drums, that is.

  • As the Bush White House pushed for war against Iraq on the grounds that it had weapons of mass destruction, the news media refused to investigate the evidence that the government was giving. People working for the media not only covered up the governments lies, but repeated them 24 hours a day 7 days a week to re-educate the masses so that they would change their opinion on whether to attack Iraq. Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh were the two biggest talk show hosts/propagandists who covered up the truth and repeated the governments lies to the American people.
    This Time, the World Is Not Buying It
  • According to the FBI crime statistics, most interracial crime is black on white, but it is the agenda of those that control the media to give the illusion that most interracial crime is white on black. This same propaganda program is going on in every majority white nation for the purpose of instilling a sense of collective racial guilt in white people, and a hatred of whites by black people. It's a lot easier to control and manipulate people when they are made to feel inferior by a instilling a belief that they are "racists". TV sitcoms, drama's, and even commercials assist in this by portraying white people as criminal master minds exploiting poor defenseless brown people, or the fat dumb white couch potato needing help from superior people of color. It's anti white racism in the extreme, and it's perpetrated by the media 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
    The Color of Crime - Race, Crime, and Justice in America.

  • THE INCUBATOR LIE. The day after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Kuwaiti Royal family hired the public relations firm Hill and Knowlton at a cost of $1 million a month. This was the biggest ever contract in the history of public relations to improve the image of their corrupt oil-rich regime. The story of how Iraqi troops in the first days of the invasion went into Al-Adan hospital, tore the sick babies from incubators and left them on the cold floor to die was graphically told to Congress on November 1990 before a crucial vote to send US troops to war. What the audience didn't’ know however was that the 15-year old girl who made the moving, tearful testimony was none other than Niyirah al-Sabah - daughter of the US Ambassador to Kuwait. She claimed to have allegedly worked as a volunteer in the maternity ward of the hospital. But nurses who work there said that they had never seen the girl before in their life. The entire move towards the Gulf War had thus been motivated by a blatant lie. Even the international human rights group Amnesty International took out full-page newspaper spreads to publicize the babies incident. It had transformed itself from a pro-peace group to a propaganda tool for the war hawks.
    The "Incubator Babies" Conspiracy
    The Kuwaiti Incubator Baby Hoax .

Seven Jewish Americans Control Most US Media
by John Whitley
11-21-03

"Today, seven Jewish Americans run the vast majority of US television networks, the printed press, the Hollywood movie industry, the book publishing industry, and the recording industry. Most of these industries are bundled into huge media conglomerates run by the following seven individuals:

Gerald Levin, CEO and Director of AOL Time Warner
Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Chairman of Seagram Company Ltd
Edgar Bronfman, Jr, President and CEO of Seagram Company Ltd and head of Universal.
Sumner Redstone, Chairman and CEO of Viacom, Inc
Dennis Dammerman, Vice Chairman of General Electric
Peter Chernin, President and Co-COO of News Corporation Limited

Those seven Jewish men collectively control ABC, NBC, CBS, the Turner Broadcasting System, CNN, MTV, Universal Studios, MCA Records, Geffen Records, DGC Records, GRP Records, Rising Tide Records, Curb/Universal Records, and Interscope Records.

Most of the larger independent newspapers are owned by Jewish interests as well. An example is media mogul is Samuel I. "Si" Newhouse, who owns two dozen daily newspapers from Staten Island to Oregon, plus the Sunday supplement Parade; the Conde Nast collection of magazines, including Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Allure, GQ, and Self; the publishing firms of Random House, Knopf, Crown, and Ballantine, among other imprints; and cable franchises with over one million subscribers."

I could add that Michael Eisner could depart Disney tomorrow but the company will remain in the hands of Shamrock Holdings, whose principal office is now located in Israel".


Jewish power dominates at 'Vanity Fair'
by The Jerusalem Post
Oct 12, 2007

"It's a list of "the world's most powerful people," 100 of the bankers and media moguls, publishers and image makers who shape the lives of billions. It's an exclusive, insular club, one whose influence stretches around the globe but is concentrated strategically in the highest corridors of power. More than half its members, at least by one count, are Jewish." "...Populated by a Cohen and a Rothschild, a Bloomberg and a Perelman, the list would seem to conform to all the traditional stereotypes about areas of Jewish overrepresentation ."
Joseph Aaron, the editor of The Chicago Jewish News, thinks it's a list his readers should "feel very, very good about."


How Jewish is Hollywood?

By Joel Stein
December 19, 2008

A poll finds more Americans disagree with the statement that ‘Jews control Hollywood.’ But here’s one Jew who doesn’t.

I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe “the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews,” down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.

How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish).

 If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.


Various sources of evidence

"Four of the largest five entertainment giants are now run or owned by Jews. Murdoch's News Corp (at number four) is the only gentile holdout -- however Rupert is as pro-Israel as any Jew, probably more so."
Los Angeles Jewish Times, 'Yes, Virginia, Jews Do Control the Media,' Oct. 29-Nov. 11, 1999 p. 14

"Time-Warner, Disney, Viacom-CBS, News Corporation and Universal rule the entertainment world in a way that the old Hollywood studio chiefs only dreamed of. And, after all the deals and buyouts, four of the five are run by Jews. We're back to where we started, bigger than ever."
Jewish Week 9-17-99, 12

"The greatest concentration of Jews, however, is at the producer level --
and it is the producers who decide which stories will go on the air, and how long, and in what order, they will run. In 1982, before a shift in assignments, the executive producers of all three evening newscasts were Jewish, as were the executive producers of CBS's 60 Minutes and ABC's 20/20. And Jews are almost equally prominent at the 'senior producer' and 'broadcast producer' levels as well as in senior management. When Reuven Frank stepped down as president of NBC News in 1984, for example, he was replaced by Laurence Grossman, who left the presidency of PBS to take the position."
Charles Silberman, A Certain People. American Jews and Their Lives Today, Summit Books, 1985, p. 154

"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 recognizable Jewish names." Consider the well-publicized reshuffling that recently rocked the Walt Disney Company, involving some of the mightiest and most highly paid media moguls. In this game of corporate musical chairs, Disney C.E.O. and Chairman of the Board, Michael Eisner lost the services of his movie production chief, Jeffrey Katzenbaum, who became part of the much-heralded new "dream team" (formally incorporated as DreamWorks SKG) with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen. Meanwhile, Eisner created a new position at Disney for his omnipotent super agent Michael Ovitz and gave broader responsibilities to his fair-haired boy, Joe Roth, former head of 20th Century Fox ...
These headlines underscored the ironic fact that the famous Disney organization, founded by a gentile Midwestern who harbored anti-Semitic attitudes now features Jewish personnel in nearly all its most powerful positions."
Michael Medved, Jewish film critic and talk show host, Hollywood vs. America, Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values, HarperCollins, 1992

Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews--and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering. Because...we have seen...the greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the [line." -- Maron Brando on Larry King Live

"Rev. Billy Graham openly voiced a belief that Jews control the American media, calling it a 'stranglehold' during a 1972 conversation with President Richard Nixon, according to a tape of the Oval Office meeting released Thursday by the National Archives. 'This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain,' 'You believe that?' Nixon says after the 'stranglehold' comment. 'Yes, sir,' Graham says. 'Oh, boy,' replies Nixon. 'So do I. I can't ever say that but I believe it.' 'No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something,' Graham replies. Later, Graham mentions that he has friends in the media who are Jewish, saying they 'swarm around me and are friendly to me.' But, he confides to Nixon, 'They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country.'" Chicago Tribune, March 1, 2002


Jews In The American Media
SimpleToRemember.com - Judaism Online

Television Networks:

CBS:

Sumner Redstone - chairman of board and CEO of CBS and Viacom, "world's biggest media giant" (Economist, 11-23-02). Viacom owns Viacom Cable, CBS, and MTV all over the world, Blockbuster Video Rentals, and Black Entertainment TV

Mel Karmazin - CBS corporation president and CEO

Leslie Moonves (great-nephew of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion) - president of CBS Television

David Poltrack - executive vice-president, Research and Planning

Jeff Fager - executive director of “60 Minutes II.”

NBC:

Jeff Zucker - president of NBC Entertainment

Neil Shapiro - president of NBC News

Jeff Gaspin - executive vice-president, programming NBC

Max Mutchnik and David Kohan - co-exec. producers of NBC’s “Good Morning, Miami”

Lloyd Braun - chair of NBC Entertainment.

ABC:

Michael Eisner - major owner of Walt Disney, Capital Cities, and ABC

David Westin - president of ABC News.

FOX:

Rupert Murdoch (Jewish mother, hence legally Jewish) - owner of FOX TV, New York Post, London Times, and News of the World

Sandy Grushow - chair, FOX Entertainment

Peter Chernin - second in command at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., owner of FOX TV

Gail Berman - president of FOX Entertainment.

CNN: 

CEO Jonathon Klein

Wolf Blitzer - host of CNN’s Late Edition.

Hollywood Movie Studios:

Ted Pike's comment: The prestigious Encyclopedia Judaica, in its article “Motion Pictures,” pg. 449, says: “Thus all the large Hollywood companies, with the exception of United Artists...were founded and controlled by Jews.”

Sony Corporation of America: Howard Stringer - chief

Columbia Pictures: Amy Pascal - chair

Warner Bros.: Barry Meyer - chair; Jordan Levin - pres. of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Miramax Films: Harvey Weinstein - CEO

Paramount: Sherry Lansing - president of Paramount Communications and chair of Paramount Pictures’ Motion Picture Group.

DreamWorks: Stephen Spielberg, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg (owners)

MTV Entertainment: Brian Graden - president

Turner Entertainment: Brad Siegal - president

Clear Channel Communications: Robert Sillerman - founder

PBS: Ben Wattenberg - moderator, PBS ThinkTank


Newspapers

Samuel Newhouse Jr. and Donald Newhouse own Newhouse Publications, which includes 26 newspapers in 22 cities. The Conde Nast Magazine Group includes the New Yorker, Parade, the Sunday newspaper supplements, American City Business Journal, business newspapers published in more than 30 major cities in America, and interests in cable television programming and cable systems serving one million homes.

Wall Street Journal: Peter R. Kahn, CEO

New York Times, Boston Globe, and other publications: published by Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.

New York Daily News: Mortimer Zuckerman, owner

Village Voice, New Times and network of alternative weeklies: Owned by David Schneiderman

Washington Post: Donald Graham, chair and CEO, son of Katharine Graham Meyer, former owner of Washington Post

San Francisco Chronicle: Ron Rosenthal, managing editor; Phil Bronstein, exec. editor

AOL-Time Warner Book Group: Laurence Kirshbaum, editor

Magazines:

US News & World Report: Mortimer Zuckerman, owner and chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish-American Organizations, one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying groups

New Republic: Marty Peretz, owner and publisher (NR openly identifies itself as pro-Israel.)

Barron’s: Peter R. Kahn, CEO

National Review: Michael Ledeen, editor

Business Week: Bruce Nussbaum, editorial page editor

Newsweek: Donald Graham, chair and CEO, and Howard Fineman, chief political columnist

Weekly Standard: William Kristol, editor, also executive director, Project for a New American Century, (PNAC)

The New Yorker: David Reznik, editor; Nicholas Lehman, writer; Henrick Hertzberg, “Talk of the Town” editor


Miscellaneous

Ivan Seidenberg - CEO of Verizon Communications, Comcast-ATT Cable TV, with Ralph and Brian Roberts as owners.

Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute - regular columnist for USA Today, news analyst for CBS and co-chair with Leslie Moonves of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.

Dennis Lebowitz - head of Act II Partners, a media hedge fund.

Barry Diller - chair of USA Interactive, former owner of USA Entertainment.

Kenneth Roth - executive director of Human Rights Watch.

Richard Leibner - head of N. S. Bienstock talent agency, which represents 600 news personalities such as Dan Rather, Dianne Sawyer, and Bill O’Reilly.

Ari Fleischer - Bush’s former press secretary

Stephen Emerson - every media outlet’s first choice as an expert on domestic terrorism.

Terry Semel - CEO of Yahoo!, former chair, Warner Bros.

Mark Golin - VP and creative director for AOL.

Warren Lieberford - president of Warner Bros. Home Video Division of AOL-Time Warner.

Jews In The American Media

MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN, owner of NY Daily News, US News & World Report and chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying groups.

LESLIE MOONVES, president of CBS television, great-nephew of David Ben-Gurion, and co-chair with Norman Ornstein of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.

JONATHAN MILLER, chair and CEO of AOL division of AOL-Time-Warner

NEIL SHAPIRO, president of NBC News

JEFF GASPIN, Executive Vice-President, Programming, NBC

DAVID WESTIN, president of ABC News

SUMNER REDSTONE, CEO of Viacom, "world's biggest media giant" (Economist, 11/23/2) owns Viacom cable, CBS and MTVs all over the world, Blockbuster video rentals and Black Entertainment TV.

MICHAEL EISNER, major owner of Walt Disney, Capitol Cities, ABC.

RUPERT MURDOCH, Owner Fox TV, New York Post, London Times, News of the World (Jewish mother)

MEL KARMAZIN, president of CBS

DON HEWITT, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes, CBS

JEFF FAGER, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes II. CBS

DAVID POLTRACK, Executive Vice-President, Research and Planning, CBS

SANDY KRUSHOW, Chair, Fox Entertainment

LLOYD BRAUN, Chair, ABC Entertainment

BARRY MEYER, chair, Warner Bros.

SHERRY LANSING. President of Paramount Communications and Chairman of Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture Group.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN, CEO. Miramax Films.

BRAD SIEGEL., President, Turner Entertainment.

PETER CHERNIN, second in-command at Rupert Murdoch's News. Corp., owner of Fox TV

MARTY PERETZ, owner and publisher of the New Republic, which openly identifies itself as pro-Israel. Al Gore credits Marty with being his "mentor."

ARTHUR O. SULZBERGER, JR., publisher of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and other publications.

WILLIAM SAFIRE, syndicated columnist for the NYT.

TOM FRIEDMAN, syndicated columnist for the NYT.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post. Honored by Honest Reporting.com, website monitoring "anti-Israel media."

RICHARD COHEN, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post

JEFF JACOBY, syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe

NORMAN ORNSTEIN, American Enterprise Inst., regular columnist for USA Today, news analyst for CBS, and co-chair with Leslie Moonves of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.

ARIE FLEISCHER, Dubya's press secretary.

STEPHEN EMERSON, every media outlet's first choice as an expert on domestic terrorism.

DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN, owner of the Village Voice and the New Times network of "alternative weeklies."

DENNIS LEIBOWITZ, head of Act II Partners, a media hedge fund

KENNETH POLLACK, for CIA analysts, director of Saban Center for Middle East Policy, writes op-eds in NY Times, New Yorker

BARRY DILLER, chair of USA Interactive, former owner of Universal Entertainment

KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch

RICHARD LEIBNER, runs the N.S. Bienstock talent agency, which represents 600 news personalities such as Dan Rather, Dianne Sawyer and Bill O'Reilly.

TERRY SEMEL, CEO, Yahoo, former chair, Warner Bros.

MARK GOLIN, VP and Creative Director, AOL

WARREN LIEBERFORD, Pres., Warner Bros. Home Video Div. of AOL- TimeWarner

JEFFREY ZUCKER, President of NBC Entertainment

JACK MYERS, NBC, chief.NYT 5.14.2

SANDY GRUSHOW, chair of Fox Entertainment

GAIL BERMAN, president of Fox Entertainment

STEPHEN SPIELBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks

JEFFREY KATZENBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks

DAVID GEFFEN, co-owner of Dreamworks

LLYOD BRAUN, chair of ABC Entertainment

JORDAN LEVIN, president of Warner Bros. Entertainment

MAX MUTCHNICK, co-executive producer of NBC's "Good Morning Miami"

DAVID KOHAN, co-executive producer of NBC's "Good Morning Miami"

HOWARD STRINGER, chief of Sony Corp. of America

AMY PASCAL, chair of Columbia Pictures

JOEL KLEIN, chair and CEO of Bertelsmann's American operations

ROBERT SILLERMAN, founder of Clear Channel Communications

BRIAN GRADEN, president of MTV entertainment

IVAN SEIDENBERG, CEO of Verizon Communications

WOLF BLITZER, host of CNN's Late Edition

LARRY KING, host of Larry King Live

TED KOPPEL, host of ABC's Nightline

ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN Reporter

PAULA ZAHN, CNN Host

MIKE WALLACE, Host of CBS, 60 Minutes

BARBARA WALTERS, Host, ABC's 20-20

MICHAEL LEDEEN, editor of National Review

BRUCE NUSSBAUM, editorial page editor, Business Week

DONALD GRAHAM, Chair and CEO of Newsweek and Washington Post, son of

CATHERINE GRAHAM MEYER, former owner of the Washington Post

HOWARD FINEMAN, Chief Political Columnist, Newsweek

WILLIAM KRISTOL, Editor, Weekly Standard, Exec. Director
Project for a New American Century (PNAC)

RON ROSENTHAL, Managing Editor, San Francisco Chronicle

PHIL BRONSTEIN, Executive Editor, San Francisco Chronicle,

RON OWENS, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)

JOHN ROTHMAN, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)

MICHAEL SAVAGE, Talk Show Host, KFSO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco) Syndicated in 100 markets

MICHAEL MEDVED, Talk Show Host, on 124 AM stations

DENNIS PRAGER, Talk Show Host, nationally syndicated from LA. Has Israeli flag on his home page.

BEN WATTENBERG, Moderator, PBS Think Tank.

ANDREW LACK, president of NBC

DANIEL MENAKER, Executive Director, Harper Collins

DAVID REMNICK, Editor, The New Yorker

NICHOLAS LEHMANN, writer, the New York

HENRICK HERTZBERG, Talk of the Town editor, The New Yorker

SAMUEL NEWHOUSE JR, and DONALD NEWHOUSE own Newhouse Publications, includes 26 newspapers in 22 cities; the Conde Nast magazine group, includes The New Yorker; Parade, the Sunday newspaper supplement; American City Business Journals, business newspapers published in more than 30 major cities in America; and interests in cable television programming and cable systems serving 1 million homes.

DONALD NEWHOUSE, chairman of the board of directors, Associated Press.

PETER R KANN, CEO, Wall Street Journal, Barron's

RALPH J. & BRIAN ROBERTS, Owners, Comcast-ATT Cable TV.

LAWRENCE KIRSHBAUM, CEO, AOL-Time Warner Book GroupMartin Agronsky - Reporter and host of Agronsky and Company[1[2


List of Jewish American journalists

Bonnie Bernstein — sports journalist
Carl Bernstein — investigative reporter for the Washington Post, uncovered Watergate with Bob Woodward.
David Brooks — columnist, The New York Times
Aaron Brown — former anchor of CNN's Newsnight with Aaron Brown, ABC's World News Now, and ABC's World News Tonight Saturday
Matt Drudge — founder of The Drudge Report.
Giselle Fernández — host of Access Hollywood.
Thomas Friedman — columnist, The New York Times.
Bernard Goldberg — CBS News reporter.
Jeffrey Goldberg (1965–) journalist, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the book Prisoners.
Seymour Hersh — investigative journalist, uncovered My Lai massacre.
Paul Krugman — columnist, The New York Times.
Dave Marash — Washington-based anchor of Al-Jazeera's English language 24 hour news channel..
Suzy Menkes, fashion journalist .
Daniel Pearl — murdered foreign correspondent[
Frank Rich — columnist, The New York Times.
Geraldo Rivera — investigative television journalist and host, now with Fox News.
Steven V. Roberts — Washington pundit and U.S. News and World Report contributor.
William Safire — columnist, The New York Times.
Daniel Schorr (1916–) journalist who has covered the world for more than 60 years, now a senior news analyst for National Public Radio.21
George Seldes — World War I correspondent, post-war international reporter and media critic.
Joel Siegel — film critic.
Gloria Steinem — feminist editor and writer, founder of Ms. magazine.
I. F. Stone — left-wing Washington correspondent and investigative journalist, NY Post, PM, The Nation and I.F. Stone's Weekly.
Mike Wallace (1918–) journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent.
Barbara Walters (1929–) media personality, a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), evening news magazines (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News, as the first female evening news anchor.
Walter Winchell — investigative broadcast journalist and gossip columnist..
Gideon Yago — MTV reporter


Who Rules America

THERE IS NO GREATER POWER in the world today than that wielded by the manipulators of public opinion in America. No king or pope of old, no conquering general or high priest ever disposed of a power even remotely approaching that of the few dozen men who control America's mass media of news and entertainment.

Their power is not distant and impersonal; it reaches into every home in America, and it works its will during nearly every waking hour. It is the power that shapes and molds the mind of virtually every citizen, young or old, rich or poor, simple or sophisticated.

The mass media form for us our image of the world and then tell us what to think about that image. Essentially everything we know—or think we know—about events outside our own neighborhood or circle of acquaintances comes to us via our daily newspaper, our weekly news magazine, our radio, or our television.

It is not just the heavy-handed suppression of certain news stories from our newspapers or the blatant propagandizing of history-distorting TV "docudramas" that characterizes the opinion-manipulating techniques of the media masters. They exercise both subtlety and thoroughness in their management of the news and the entertainment that they present to us.

For example, the way in which the news is covered: which items are emphasized and which are played down; the reporter's choice of words, tone of voice, and facial expressions; the wording of headlines; the choice of illustrations—all of these things subliminally and yet profoundly affect the way in which we interpret what we see or hear.

On top of this, of course, the columnists and editors remove any remaining doubt from our minds as to just what we are to think about it all. Employing carefully developed psychological techniques, they guide our thought and opinion so that we can be in tune with the "in" crowd, the "beautiful people," the "smart money." They let us know exactly what our attitudes should be toward various types of people and behavior by placing those people or that behavior in the context of a TV drama or situation comedy and having the other TV characters react in the Politically Correct way.

Molding American Minds

For example, a racially mixed couple will be respected, liked, and socially sought after by other characters, as will a "take charge" Black scholar or businessman, or a sensitive and talented homosexual, or a poor but honest and hardworking illegal alien from Mexico. On the other hand, a White racist—that is, any racially conscious White person who looks askance at miscegenation or at the rapidly darkening racial situation in America—is portrayed, at best, as a despicable bigot who is reviled by the other characters, or, at worst, as a dangerous psychopath who is fascinated by firearms and is a menace to all law-abiding citizens. The White racist "gun nut," in fact, has become a familiar stereotype on TV shows.

The average American, of whose daily life TV-watching takes such an unhealthy portion, distinguishes between these fictional situations and reality only with difficulty, if at all. He responds to the televised actions, statements, and attitudes of TV actors much as he does to his own peers in real life. For all too many Americans the real world has been replaced by the false reality of the TV environment, and it is to this false reality that his urge to conform responds. Thus, when a TV scriptwriter expresses approval of some ideas and actions through the TV characters for whom he is writing, and disapproval of others, he exerts a powerful pressure on millions of viewers toward conformity with his own views.

And as it is with TV entertainment, so it is also with the news, whether televised or printed. The insidious thing about this form of thought control is that even when we realize that entertainment or news is biased, the media masters still are able to manipulate most of us. This is because they not only slant what they present, but also they establish tacit boundaries and ground rules for the permissible spectrum of opinion.....continued here.

 

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