Why do people say that ‘the Jews’ control the media? They don’t.
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Introduction
Before WWII, the Nazis and their sympathizers made popular all over the world the allegation that ‘the Jews’ controlled everything in secret, including the mass media, and that they would use this clandestine power to hurt us all. The accusations were widely believed because they were built on a long tradition of Western accusations against the Jews going back to the first century, when they were accused of killing God: a cultural inertia (see Part 1). The Nazi accusations of the supposed clandestine total power of ‘the Jews,’ plus supposed evil intent of the same, produced a pan-Western anti-Jewish hysteria that fueled the genocide of more than 5 million Jews, which repeated the consequences of similar accusations in previous centuries in the West (see Part 1). We are back where we started. It is almost impossible to be both alive and in the West and not have heard the allegation that “the Jews control the media.” As before, the accusation is a lie. This piece will demonstrate that most of the big media is not controlled by ‘the Jews,’ and that when people claiming a Jewish identity do own a big media company, this company will be especially careful to take an anti-Jewish slant.
Where to start?
Let’s take a look at General Electric, one of the greatest media powerhouses.
General Electric -- not controlled by Jews
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This is a publicly traded company, so it is owned by the stockholders, not by ‘the Jews.’ In any case, companies are run by their CEO’s. The CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of this company for many years was Jack Welch who, as The New Yorker informs me, is “the grandson of Irish immigrants… [H]is mother, Grace, [was] a strict Roman Catholic…”[1] And this religious orientation apparently lingered, because the Toronto Star says that “Welch [is] a devout Catholic.”[2] Whatever else that means, it certainly means that Welch is not Jewish.
The current CEO at General Electric is one Jeffrey Immelt, whose last name is German. USA Today reports that he is a “Presbyterian.”[3] Whatever else that means, it means that Jeffrey Immelt is not Jewish.
This is already a lot of media that is -- and has been -- controlled by non-Jews.
General Electric owns NBC/Universal Television Studio, and NBC/Universal Television and Universal Pictures, and 30% of Paxson Communications.
It also owns the following NBC stations: WNBC (New York), KNBC (Los Angeles), WMAQ (Chicago), WCAU (Philadelphia), KNTV (San Jose/San Francisco), KXAS (Dallas/Fort Worth), WRC (Washington), WTVJ (Miami), KNSD (San Diego), WVIT (Hartford), WNCN (Raleigh), WCMH (Columbus), WVTM (Birmingham), WJAR (Providence).
In addition, GE owns the following: Telemundo Stations: KVEA/KWHY (Los Angeles), WNJU (New York), WSCV (Miami), KTMD (Houston), WSNS (Chicago), KXTX (Dallas/Fort Worth), KVDA (San Antonio), KSTS (San Jose/San Francisco), KDRX (Phoenix), KNSO (Fresno), KMAS (Denver), WNEU (Boston/Merrimack), KHRR (Tucson), and WKAQ (Puerto Rico).
And, finally, GE owns the following channels: CNBC, MSNBC, Bravo, Mun2TV, Sci-Fi, Trio, and USA.[4]
That’s a lot of media. And yet, compared to Time-Warner, General Electric is not such a big media empire.
Time-Warner -- not controlled by Jews
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This company used to be called AOL-Time-Warner back when AOL was still an admired company. In January 2003 the Washington Post reported as follows:
“The announcement Sunday that Steve Case will yield the company chairmanship in May leaves [Richard D.] Parsons alone at the top of the world’s largest media company [Time-Warner].”[10]
The notice for Parsons’ mother’s death, in the New York Times, states that “A funeral service will be held on Friday, January 16. at 10am at New Hope Lutheran Church.”[11] Whatever else that means, it means that Richard D. Parsons is not Jewish. So “the world’s largest media company” is run by a non-Jew.
Steve Case, the man who ran AOL-Time-Warner before Parsons got the job, celebrated mass at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral after his brother Dan died.[12] Whatever else that means, it means that Steve Case is not Jewish.
It is true that the CEO at Time-Warner in the period 1992 to 2002 was Gerald Levin, who is Jewish. But that’s over now. And it is worth pointing out that during Levin’s tenure Time-Warner did not have a pro-Jewish line. On the contrary. Consider only that CNN was acquired by Time-Warner in 1996, during Levin’s tenure, and CNN is Time-Warner’s major TV news operation. Vincent Cannistraro, incessant enemy of Israel, was appearing regularly on CNN when Levin acquired it (more than once a month in 1994).[13] But after CNN became part of Time-Warner, CNN did not expose Cannistraro as a terrorist -- on the contrary, he continued to appear on CNN as a trusty counter-terrorism ‘expert.’ And in 2001, with Gerald Levin still presiding as CEO, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer referred to Vincent Cannistraro’s Washington Post editorial (which defends the human rights of those who murder innocent Israeli children) in order to make his own anti-Israel attack.[14]
Rupert Murdoch's empire -- not controlled by Jews
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Moving on, I have heard it said that Rupert Murdoch is supposedly Jewish, but this is because “Murdoch’s mother is frequently mis-reported to be Jewish -- although this is not the case.”[15] Now, if Murdoch’s mother is not Jewish, I wonder why she is “frequently mis-reported to be Jewish…”? Could it have anything to do with the fact that Rupert Murdoch presides over “one of the world’s largest and most influential media corporations”? In any case, as the same source informs me, “Rupert’s father was the son of a Presbyterian minister from Scotland.” Whatever else that means, it means that Rupert Murdoch is not Jewish.
As in the case of Murdoch’s mother, Murdoch’s media is also frequently mis-reported to be pro-Jewish. To see that this is false, consider only that FOX TV is part of Murdoch’s media empire. This TV company has had Vincent Cannistraro as an interview guest, dressing him up as a ‘counter-terrorism’ expert,[16] and it has used him as a supposedly authoritative source on multiple occasions.[17] It has also interviewed Raymond McGovern as a representative of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).[18]
Does FOX TV have a pro-Israel bent, as has been alleged? I have a pro-Israel bent, which is why I have taken the trouble to document whether or not Vincent Cannistraro and Ray McGovern, who are prominently on display attacking Israel, can be believed. Why doesn’t FOX TV do this? It is incredibly easy to do. If FOX TV is really competing with the other media outlets, and if they are pro-Israel, why aren’t they demonstrating to their viewers that one cannot trust Vincent Cannistraro and Raymond McGovern, prominent enemies of Israel? This would simultaneously advance FOX’s supposedly pro-Israel bent and would demonstrate the inferiority of their media competition, which has been pushing Cannistraro and McGovern as ‘experts’ you can trust (see here, and here). Instead, FOX TV helps burnish Cannistraro’s and McGovern’s images as supposed ‘experts,’ like everybody else.