Not so Lily White are they

[sid guttridge]

Hi Genstab,

It might be worth observing that "The New Media Monopoly" has gone through six editions since 1983, so clearly any media monopoly is far from absolute!

Cheers,

Sid.

[genstab]

Have you read it, Sid? The reason it has succeeding editions is that less and less corporations controlled all the US mass media- publishing, radio and TV- every year. The original title was "The Media Monopoly"- I have the original edition from 1983 whren 50 corporations controlled the majority of US media. The title "The New Media Monopoly" is the latest edition in 2000- now only six media conglomerates control virtually all the US media. Bagdikian's a professor at UC- Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is a veteran reporter and editor. And talk about the old "liberal press" chestnut- I wouldn't say there's a "liberal" tycoon or corporation in control of any of the six.

[sid guttridge]

Hi genstab,

This sounds interesting. I shall get a copy through inter-library loan. Thanks for putting me on to it.

Cheers,

Sid.

[genstab]

It just shows you one side of who is helping run the country through controlling the information the public gets. There are other good books on the subject, such as "Media Circus" by Howard Kurtz- though that only only considers newspapers. TV is more influential in America today and of course can only give you part of the story even with good intent due to time limitations. You can get more info out of a book than fifty TV shows- you only have to worry about whether you're getting honesty.

Anyway, the American version of the Golden Rule is "He who has the gold makes the rules. Forewarded is forearmed.

[Walter Wulfsen]

Here is a description of Dr. Bagdikian's book from his website.


The New Media Monopoly
The New Media Monopoly describes the cartel of five giant media conglomerates who now control the media on which a majority of Americans say they most rely. These five are not just large — though they are all among the 325 largest corporations in the world — they are unique among all huge corporations: they are a major factor in changing the politics of the United States and they condition the social values of children and adults alike.

These five huge corporations — Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) — own most of the newspapers, magazines, books, radio and TV stations, and movie studios of the United States.

These Big Five (with General Electric's NBC a close sixth) do not manufacture automobiles, or clothing, or nuts and bolts. They manufacture politics and social values. The media conglomerates have been a major force in creating conservative and far right politics in the country. They have almost single-handedly as a group, in their radio and television dominance, produced a coarse and vulgar culture that celebrates the most demeaning characteristics in the human psyche — greed, deceit, and cheating as a legitimate way to win (as in the various "reality" shows).

It is not just national economics that is at stake — though their power has led to the government's somnolence of anti-trust action. Nor is it just the neglect of broadcast media giantism by the government agencies that by law are still required to operate "in the public interest." The public interest is to have the country's largest broadcasting system in the world provide diversity in news, opinion, and commentary that serves all Americans, right, left, and independent, as well as access to their local stations as well as true choices in national programs.

What is at stake is American democracy itself. A country without all the significant news, points of view, and information its citizens need to be informed voters is risking the loss of democratic rights. Voters without genuine choices and without the information they need to choose what meets their own needs and wishes has produced something alarming: on Election Day our voters are forced to vote for what is the narrowest political choices among all industrial democracies of the world.

The New Media Monopoly, by Ben Bagdikian, describes these dominant media giants, how they cooperate with each other in the manner of a cartel, who runs them, and how this all came to pass in such insidious ways. It reminds a whole generation that has forgotten, for example, that the public owns the air waves, not the broadcasters. The book describes how all our media grew, including the Internet (and intriguing information like the first time in history that a computer crashed).

This book is designed to inform, to raise the alarm, and at the same time be readable in the living room and classroom.


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The owner of Viacon, Sumner Redstone, is a Jew.

The head of Disney is Jewish.

Rupert Murdoch is Jewish.

The Edgar Bronfman family (Jewish) owns Vivendi, which owned, or still owns, Time-Warner.


For additional information see below. This information was obtained from Cornell University legal archives.

GENERAL OVERVIEW of Massive JEWISH PRESS OWNERSHIP

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Here are some quotes from a magazine for Jews called "Moment". It is subtitled "The Jewish magazine for the 90's" These quotes are from the Aug 1996 edition after the Headline "Jews Run Hollywood - So What?": "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."

"The famous Disney organization, which was founded by Walt Disney, a gentile Midwesterner who allegedly harbored anti-Semitic attitudes, now features Jewish personnel in nearly all its most powerful positions."

The head of Walt Disney studios is now the Jew Michael Eisner.

On studios that were bought out by the Japanese the magazine says:

"When Mitsushita took over MCA-Universal, they did nothing to undermine the unquestioned authority of Universal's legendary - and all Jewish - management triad of Lew Wasserman, Sid Scheinberg, and Tom Pollack."

Here are some quotes from the paper "Jews Control the Media and Rule America"

"American Broadcasting Companies (ABC), Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), and National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Each of these three has been under the absolute control of a single man over a long enough period of time-ranging from 32 to 55 years-for him to staff the corporation at every level with officers of his choosing and then to place his imprint indelibly upon it. In each case that man has been a Jew.

"Until 1985, when ABC merged with Capital Cities Communications, Inc...the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer (CEO) of the network was Leonard Harry Goldenson, a Jew...In an interview in the April 1, 1985 issue of Newsweek, Goldenson boasted 'I built this company (ABC) from scratch.'"

"CBS was under the domination of William S. Paley for more than half a century. The son of immigrant Jews from Russia..." "There has been no move by top G-E management to change the Jewish "profile" of NBC or to replace key Jewish personnel. To the contrary, new Jewish executives have been added: an example is Steve Friedman..."

"The man in charge of the television entertainment division at CBS is Jeff Sagansky. At ABC the entertainment division is run by two men....nearly all of the men who shape young American's concept of reality, of good and evil, of permissible and impermissible behavior are Jews. In particular, Sagansky and Bloomberg are Jews. So is Tartikoff. Littlefield is the only Gentile who has had a significant role in TV entertainment programming in recent years."

"American Film magazine listed the top 10...entertainment companies and their CEOs...Time Warner Communications (Steven J Ross, Jew) Walt Disney Co. (Michael D. Eisner, Jew)...Of the 10 top entertainment CEOs listed above, eight are Jews."

"The Newhouse media empire provides an example of more than a lack of real competition among America's daily newspapers; it also illustrates the insatiable appetite Jews have shown for all organs of opinion... The Newhouse's own 31 daily newspapers, including several large and important ones, such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Newark Star-Ledger, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune; the nation's largest trade book publishing conglomerate, Random House, with all its subsidiaries; Newhouse Broadcasting, consisting of 12 television broadcasting stations and 87 cable-TV systems, including some of the countries 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, HQ, Bride's, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Self, Home&Garden...."

"Furthermore, even those newspapers still under Gentile ownership and management are so thoroughly dependent upon Jewish advertising..."

"The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. These three...are the newspapers which set trends and guidelines for nearly all others. They are the ones which decide what is news and what isn't, at national and international levels. They originate the news; the others merely copy it. And all three newspapers are in Jewish hands...The Suzberger family also owns, through the New York Times Co. 36 other newspapers; twelve magazines, including McCall's and Family Circle..."

"New York's other newspapers are in no better hands than the Daily News. The New York Post is owned by billionaire Jewish real-estate developer Peter Kalikow. The Village Voice is the personal property of Leonard Stern

"There are only three newsmagazines of any note published in the United States: Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report....

The CEO of Time Warner Communications is Steven J. Ross, and he is a Jew.

"Newsweek, as mentioned above, is published by the Washington Post Co., under the Jewess Katherine Meyer Graham..."

"U.S. News & World Report... owned and published by Jewish real estate developer Mortimer B. Zucherman..."

" The three largest book publishers...Random House... Simon & Schuster , and Time Inc. Book Co....All three are owned or controlled by Jews...The CEO of Simon & Schuster is Richard Snyder, and the president is Jeremy Kaplan; both are Jews too."

"Western Publishing...ranks first among publishers of childrens books, with more than 50 per cent of the market. Its chairman and CEO is Richard Bernstein, a Jew." "Jewish spokesmen customarily will use evasive tactics. "Ted Turner isn't a Jew!" they will announce..."

"We are doing more than merely giving them a decisive influence on our political system and virtual control of our government; we also are giving them control of the minds and souls of our children..." top of page




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[genstab]

Walter, I appreciate the post on Bagdikian's website for our members' information, but what does those individuals' being Jewish have to do with it? (It's a surprise to me that Murcoch is, being Australian, but of course it's possible)- my point is that the perple who control the media like those super rich who control America are right winger capitalists, and of course Jews like any other people can be right or left wing, capitalists, democrats, socialists, or Communists (but of course not Nazis). The people who control America are mostly WASPS. I refer everyone to "Who Rules America Now" by G. William Domhoff, sociology professor at Univ. of California.

[Walter Wulfsen]

Walter, I appreciate the post on Bagdikian's website for our members' information, but what does those individuals' being Jewish have to do with it? (It's a surprise to me that Murcoch is, being Australian, but of course it's possible)- my point is that the perple who control the media like those super rich who control America are right winger capitalists, and of course Jews like any other people can be right or left wing, capitalists, democrats, socialists, or Communists (but of course not Nazis). The people who control America are mostly WASPS. I refer everyone to "Who Rules America Now" by G. William Domhoff, sociology professor at Univ. of California.

Hi Genstab,

I posted the previous and the following information, which is freely available on the internet, in the interests of the truth. I think you have it wrong about WASP's controlling the media in the U.S. and Britain. Many of these prominent Jews have Anglicized their names to hide the truth.

Check this information on Rupert Murdoch.

Murdoch's Deeply Hidden Jewish Roots -- A Biography
By Christopher Bollyn – American Free Press

Christopher Bollyn is an investigative journalist who has written extensively on the events of September 11, 2001 in the Washington-based American Free Press. He has researched different aspects of the 9/11 attacks and uncovered facts and evidence that challenge the official version of events. tried to smear Bollyn as an “anti-Semite” in order to discredit him and diminish the significance of his work. At the helm of both organizations, the ADL and Fox News, is an Australian-born Zionist named Keith Rupert Murdoch.

Murdoch's Jewish Roots

Murdoch “became an American citizen for business reasons,” according to Richard H. Curtiss, editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Keith Rupert was born in Melbourne, Australia, on March 11, 1931. “Rupert’s father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a newspaper publisher, and his mother an Orthodox Jew,” Curtiss wrote, “although Murdoch never offers that information in his biographies.”

Murdoch’s father married Elisabeth Joy Greene, daughter of Rupert Greene in 1928. They had one son, Keith Rupert and three daughters. Later in life, Keith Rupert chose to use Rupert, the first name of his Jewish maternal grandfather.

The young Keith Rupert was educated at Australia’s fashionable Geelong private school, and went on to the elitist and aristocratic Oxford University in England, according to Candour (UK) magazine.

“Rupert’s father Sir Keith Murdoch attained his prominent position in Australian society through a fortuitous marriage to the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, née Elisabeth Joy Greene. Through his wife’s connections, Keith Murdoch was subsequently promoted from reporter to chairman of the British-owned newspaper where he worked. There was enough money to buy himself a knighthood of the British realm, two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town,” Candour wrote in 1984. “For some reason, Murdoch has always tried to hide the fact that his pious mother brought him up as a Jew.”

While Murdoch may have “tried to hide” his Jewish roots, he has been quite forthright about his support for extreme right-wing Zionists, such as Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon.

Netanyahu, who wrote a book entitled The War on Terror: How the West Can Win in 1986, is a frequent commentator on Murdoch’s Fox News.

Murdoch’s support for Zionism extremists is well known and a matter of record. As New York Governor George Pataki said, “There is no newspaper in the U.S. more supportive of Israel than the [Murdoch’s] New York Post.”

It is through a network of Zionist organizations, in which Murdoch plays a central role, that Murdoch is connected to the individuals who arranged the privatization – and obtained control of the World Trade Center – shortly before its destruction.

These key individuals are: Larry Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Frank Lowy, the lease holders of dubious repute who gained control of the WTC property six weeks before 9/11, and Port Authority Chairman Lewis M. Eisenberg, who authorized the transfer of the leases.

Murdoch belongs to, and has been honored by, a number of leading Zionist organizations in which Silverstein, Lowy, and Eisenberg all hold senior positions. These organizations include the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), and the New York-based Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

Fifty days before 9/11, Silverstein Properties and Lowy’s Westfield America secured 99-year leases on the WTC. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey turned control of the World Trade Center over to the private hands of Silverstein and Lowy on July 24, 2001.

Silverstein and Lowy then took control of the 10.6 million-square-foot complex, which included the twin towers office buildings and two nine-story office buildings. Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Lowy then controlled all access to the World Trade Center.

Lowy leased the shopping concourse called the Mall at the World Trade Center, which comprised about 427,000 square feet of retail space.

“Six weeks before the WTC towers were destroyed, the Port Authority completed the process of leasing them for 99 years to Larry Silverstein, the developer who had built 7 World Trade Center [which mysteriously self-demolished at 5:25 p.m. on 9/11].

“Simultaneously, the retail space underneath the complex was leased to Westfield America, the US division of an Australian company that is one of the world’s largest operators of shopping malls.” Paul Goldberger wrote in New Yorker, May 20, 2002.

“Silverstein and Westfield were given the right to rebuild the structures if they were destroyed, and Westfield has the right to expand the retail space by 30 percent,” Goldberger wrote.

Silverstein is suing for some $7.2 billion in insurance money for the loss of the destroyed World Trade Center – and his expected earnings – for property he had leased with a down payment of $100 million – of borrowed funds.


Murdoch the Zionist

“Murdoch is a close friend of Ariel Sharon,” Sam Kiley, The Times (UK) veteran journalist on the Middle East wrote about the man who took over the once famous British paper. Kiley said Murdoch’s friendship with the Israeli prime minister had caused senior staff at the paper to rewrite important copy.

“Murdoch’s executives were so afraid of irritating him that, when I pulled off a little scoop of tracking down and photographing the unit in the Israeli army which killed Mohammed al-Durrah, the 12-year-old boy whose death was captured on film and became the iconic image of the conflict, I was asked to file the piece ‘without mentioning the dead kid.’” Kiley wrote. “After that conversation, I was left wordless, so I quit.”

Sharon and Murdoch are old friends. On Oct. 15, 1982, a month after the massacres of thousands of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps of Beirut, war crimes which occurred under Sharon’s direct command, the Israeli defense minister held meetings with Rupert Murdoch and others, reportedly in order to advance his “West Bank real estate grab.”

The visit with Sharon included a trip for Murdoch and his editors from New York and London that “took them on a bird’s-eye tour of Israel aboard a helicopter gunship, flying over the Golan Heights, West Bank and settlements.”

“I have always believed in the future of Israel and the goals of the international Jewish community,” Murdoch said at a spring fund-raiser for the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on April 29, 2001.

From the beginning, News Corp., his global media company, “has been supportive of the Jewish national cause,” Murdoch said.

Larry Silverstein, who had not yet acquired the lease on the World Trade Center, attended the fund-raiser with Murdoch and reportedly said about museum chairman Robert Morgenthau’s plans to expand the museum: “I’ll support you…as long as you keep it under 110 stories.”


Murdoch and the ADL

“Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zuckerman are on the [ADL] dinner committee,” according to a recent New York Times report on the ADL’s recent fund-raiser in which the controversial Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi received the ADL’s Distinguished Statesman Award.

Silverstein and Eisenberg have both held senior leadership positions with the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), a billion dollar Zionist “charity” organization, to which Murdoch and Lowy generously contribute. In 1997, Henry Kissinger presented Murdoch with the UJA’s award for “Humanitarian of the Year.”

Silverstein is a former chairman of UJA. This organization raises hundreds of millions of dollars every year for a network of Zionist agencies in the United States and Israel. Eisenberg, who was instrumental in obtaining the lease for Silverstein, is on the Planning Board of UJA.

Eisenberg in his role with the Port Authority was the key person who negotiated the 99-year leases for Silverstein and Frank Lowy’s Westfield America, who were in fact the low-bidders for the lease on the 110-story towers and the retail mall.

Murdoch and the Czechoslovakian-born Israeli commando Frank Lowy, a former fighter in Israel’s Golani Brigade, who emigrated to Australia in the 1950s, have had a long friendship, which Murdoch recounted during an American Australian Association fund-raising dinner in honor of Frank’s son, Peter S. Lowy, in New York on November 20, 2002. Larry Silverstein and his wife also attended the American Australian event.

Some reporters refer to the American Australian Association, whose membership includes James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank, who raised cash for Rupert Murdoch when he first expanded into the United States, as “the kangaroo mafia.”

“Frank was a brave and determined fighter,” Rafi Kocer, Lowy’s former commander, said. Lowy has donated some $350,000 to build a memorial museum in Israel for his former brigade.

Today, Lowy and his three sons control Westfield Corporation, one of the largest operators of shopping centers in the United States – and the world.


Insured Against Terrorist Attacks

On September 12, 2001, The Jerusalem Post reported: “Frank Lowy, who emigrated to Australia from Israel in 1952, owns the 99-year lease for the 425,000 square foot retail portion of the destroyed World Trade Center…Westfield said today that it has insurance cover against terrorist attacks and its earnings will not be materially affected.”

Lowy, is described by the Sydney Morning Herald as “a self-made man with a strong interest in the Holocaust and Israeli politics.”

Via Rumor Mill News
Murdoch’s “Lone-Gumen” TV Show-Psyop Transcript
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/fo ... read=37550

Cheers,

Walter

[genstab]

It appears you may be right about Murdoch's hidden religious creed- but I do believe that Jews don't control America- the corporations do and few of the heads of the multinationals are Jews. There may be a higher than usual concentration of Jewish CEOs in the media but the media is just a part and servant of the oligarchy that controls America through its propaganda and suppression of inconvenient truth, not the leaders. To convince me that WASPs don't control America you'd have to research the religious backgrounds of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 corporations.

[sid guttridge]

Hi Guys,

Fascinating.

As a matter of interest, why do you not classify Murdoch as Scottish-Australian rather than Jewish?

Cheers,

Sid.

[genstab]

Ask Walter- I didn't classify him. I guess it kicks off a big argument how people should be classified though (other than vocation or profession)- his nationality may be one thing, his native country another, and his religion a third- IF he classifies himself by his religion which in Murcoch's case doesn't seem evident. To me it doesn't matter. To some others it does- but should it? I judge a person by his politics (and consequent humanity or lack of it), not by his religion, because every religion spawns its share of saints, wonderful people and criminals.

[Walter Wulfsen]

Ask Walter- I didn't classify him. I guess it kicks off a big argument how people should be classified though (other than vocation or profession)- his nationality may be one thing, his native country another, and his religion a third- IF he classifies himself by his religion which in Murcoch's case doesn't seem evident. To me it doesn't matter. To some others it does- but should it? I judge a person by his politics (and consequent humanity or lack of it), not by his religion, because every religion spawns its share of saints, wonderful people and criminals.

Hi all,

I didn't classify him either; I merely noted what the author of the above article stated. According to the above, apparently meticulously researched article, by Christopher Bollyn, he was raised Jewish by a pious Jewess mother.

Cheers,

Walter

[genstab]

so why are you making the point that three of those media conglomerates are apparently run by Jews?

[Walter Wulfsen]

so why are you making the point that three of those media conglomerates are apparently run by Jews?

Hi Genstab,

I made this point and provided this information, because Sid isn't convinced that Jews own a majority of the major media in the U.S. and Britain. He thinks they don't have a stranglehold over what information the major media allow to reach the average person. I think he is wrong.

Cheers,

Walter

[genstab]

You may be right on that, as I said Jews tend to be in any endeavor requiring brainpower, higher education and culture because as a group they tend to be very well educated. But again as I said, the media are just servants of the oligarchy, not the masters. Its influence is wat's dangerous. If both of you read Domhoff's "Who Rules America?" you might find out some more interesting facts. Of course (and I can't find the darn book right now) there is more than one edition as it also has been updated- the current one was published in 1998 as "Who Rules America? Power and Politics in the Year 2000".

[Beppo Schmidt]

Many of these prominent Jews have Anglicized their names to hide the truth.

I didn't realize being Jewish was some sort of crime that must be exposed.