The Jewish Propaganda In
British Media
Jewish Media Violence
and Jewish Monopoly of Media War: Jewish propaganda is to the "Judeocracy"
what violence is to the dictatorship
Here follows a lengthy analysis
and study of the Jewish media-occupation in Great Britain. Written in
1997, this text describes the present state of affairs when it comes to
Jewish media power in Great Britain. It is crucial, in the battle
against the Jewish racist totalitarianism, to have a basic knowledge
about the Jewish media-dictatorship-monopoly and about the political
power the Zionists possess and who are - as Jewish political actors -
the leaders of this Jewish Power.
INTRODUCTION
A power greater than
government?
"Today the film makers are the people who
control the most powerful medium in the world, and art that can create
ideals, change language or topple governments."
John Baxter in the Daily Mail (28th December
1995)
According to the theory of democracy, "the
people" rule. They elect politicians by their own choice, and if and
when those politicians fail to act according to their wishes they can be
dismissed by the vote of the people. The pluralism of different
political parties provides the people with "alternatives"; if one loses
their confidence, they can support another. Thus is realised the
democratic principle of: government of the people, by the people and for
the people.
It would be nice if it were all so simple. But
in a medium-to-large modern state things are not quite like that. How do
"the people" acquire the information and knowledge necessary for them to
use their votes other than by blind guesswork? They cannot possibly
witness everything that is happening on the national scene, still less
at the level of world events. Only a tiny few of them ever see their
political leaders close up and are able to watch and assess their
performance of their duties. The vast majority are not students of
politics. They don't really know what is happening, and even if they did
they would need guidance as to how to interpret what they knew.
"The people" are doctors, lawyers, engineers,
clerks, shopkeepers, factory workers, farmworkers, small tradesmen,
nurses, secretaries, schoolteachers and a thousand or more other things.
They know, or ought to know, something about the occupations in which
they are engaged. But only the minutest number can be expected to know
the business of politics - one of the most complex of subjects, with its
vast range of issues and the many points of view that will be brought to
bear on each of these issues. To know what the issues are, and to
examine and evaluate these points of view, the people need to have these
issues presented to them and the points of view expounded in a form that
they can understand.
This is where the "mass media" come in:
newspapers; television; radio. And for those with a more studious and
enquiring bent there are other media: books; magazines; the Internet.
The list is growing as information technology advances.
But there is a problem here. "The people" cannot
own, control and regulate the media. That can only be done by a small
minority - a mere fraction of the population, in fact much fewer than
one per cent. And it is this minority which is able to determine which
facts the people will be allowed to know about, which events will be
reported to them, which points of view they will be able to examine and
evaluate, which political parties it is good to vote for and which not,
which politicians are decent, upright, honourable and capable citizens
and which are disreputable, incompetent, "dangerous" and "extreme".
This invests that minority who control the mass
media with enormous power - perhaps even greater power than a prime
minister or cabinet. It is this minority which determines the climate of
"public opinion" in which politicians have to operate, the "public
opinion" to which they have to defer and which they dare not offend if
they are to get elected and stay elected.
Even when the mass media consisted mainly of
newspapers, and only a small minority read those newspapers, this power
was considerable. Today, when it embraces mass-circulation newspapers
and television, it is colossal beyond imagination.
And we must not forget another fact about the
media. Their political influence extends far beyond newspaper reports
and articles, and television programmes, of a direct political nature -
connected, that is, with current affairs that bear upon politics. In a
much more subtle way, they can influence people's thought patterns by
other means: newspaper stories, pages dealing with entertainment and
popular culture, movies, TV "soaps", "educational" programmes: all these
types of fare help form human values, concepts of good and evil, right
and wrong, sense and nonsense and what is "fashionable" and
"unfashionable". These human value systems, in turn, shape people's
attitude to political issues, influence how they vote and therefore
determine who holds political power.
Yet for some strange reason there is very little
public discussion in Britain today, as an example, of who actually
exercises media control. The people are encouraged to get tremendously
excited about the outcome of a general election, even of local
government elections, yet these contests probably have far less a
bearing on the question of who wields power over us than the much more
crucial one of who regulates "public opinion" and therefore determines
the agenda both for the contesting of elections and for what is done in
government by whoever wins.
Any study of what is happening on the national
scene must therefore today include a study of the workings of the mass
media: who the people are who own, control and operate those media, and
to what purposes their immense power is being put.
The current affairs
"discussion"
Discussion programmes on TV and radio dealing
with current affairs and topical public issues are presented so as to
convey the impression that they are conducted in accordance with the
letter and spirit of "democracy", with various viewpoints given a
hearing. However, where the discussion threatens to touch upon issues
considered "sensitive" to the judaized establishment which controls TV
and radio, it is carefully stage-managed so that "dangerous" viewpoints
are excluded. This is particularly noticeable where discussion concerns
matters of the Jewish State of Israel and its not so very glorious
aspects, when relating to doubts concerning the alleged mass-slaughter
of Jews during WW II and when some one tries to discuss the power
wielded by the Jewish minority.
One TV programme on British TV a short time ago
was devoted to the subject of "anti-semitism", which was presented as
being on the increase throughout Europe, including Britain. Various
spokesmen, some Jewish and some non-Jewish, appeared on the programme to
give their views. After the programme had proceded a little while, it
became quite clear that the only differences between the participants
lay in their attitudes as to how "anti-semitism" should be treated. Some
maintained that it should be rigorously suppressed by the introduction
of tighter laws against it; others said that this practice would play
into the hands of the "anti-semites" by making them martyrs and that,
however much "anti-semitism" was to be deplored, suppressing it by law
was not the way to fight it. One member of the discussion panel launched
into a lengthy analysis of the mental state of "anti-semites", implying
them to be suffering from a certain kind of insanity.
What was entirely absent from the discussion was
any contribution offering an explanation of the viewpoint of the
so-called "antisemites". Of course, "anti-semitism" itself is a
misleading term deliberately adopted by our media-controllers so as to
suggest that those thus labelled want to ill-treat Jews, even kill them,
for no reason than that they are Jews, whereas the vast majority of
people described as "anti-semites" simply oppose what they see as
excessive Jewish power. Whether or not they are correct in their
assessment of this power is beside the point; if "democracy" is to be
more than just an empty phrase, they should be allowed to state their
case in public then have that case seriously examined and debated. This,
however, is the very last thing our media-controllers want. Therefore,
when any programme discussing anti-semitism (i.e. criticism of Jewish
power) is broadcast on TV or radio, "anti-semites" (i.e. critics of
Jewish power) are deliberately excluded, so that the "discussion" is not
really a discussion at all, merely an imitation of one.
Who are the
manipulators?
But who is behind it all? Who are the people who
determine what is watched on television and printed in the newspapers?
This is not so easy a study because a great many of the people concerned
operate in the shadows. And even in the case of those whose names are
known, what is known about their backgrounds and their connections? Very
little.
For this reason, very few people in Britain are
aware of the huge influence over the mass media exercised by a certain
ethnic minority, namely the Jews.
Straightaway, we can expect that mention of this
minority will put many readers on the defensive. Is this "anti-semitism"?,
some will ask. That, you see, is the first example of the hypnotic
effect of media power. The mass media in Britain today have managed to
implant into many people's minds the idea that it is "anti-semitic" even
to acknowledge that members of the Jewish community play a large part in
controlling our news and opinion and to question whether this is a good
thing for Britain. In the uncomfortable feeling provoked in a number of
readers of this text by the very mention of the word "Jews", there is
provided the first lesson in media indoctrination and brainwashing!
This text is simply a study of who controls
public opinion in Great Britain.
We believe that in this study there should be no
"no-go" areas, no forbidden avenues of enquiry. We are concerned here
with facts. What deductions people make from those facts is their
decision. Our intention is that they should be roused from their former
ignorance and apathy and persuaded to join our political struggle to
achieve, through peaceable and legal means a more just, non-racist
society. A society not dominated by a racist minority believing to be
"Gods Chosen People".
It is the contention of this study that members
of the Jewish community (whether practising or not) exercise a power and
influence in Britain's mass media that are out of all proportion to
their numbers in the population. We believe that this is a fact that
should not be hidden but should be known - and discussed. No great issue
of concern can be properly examined unless all the facts pertaining it
are known and are faced - fairly and squarely, with nothing swept under
the carpet for fear that some noisy element may object.
Some people may accept the findings of this
study as authentic and accurate but then say: "So what?" Isn't it quite
common for certain groups to be found in profusion in certain
occupations whether for reasons of natural talent and aptitude,
accidents of history, or whatever? Are there not a lot of Irish building
workers and writers, Scottish doctors and engineers, Welsh singers,
Black sportsmen, French and Italian restauranteurs and Indian and
Pakistani textile merchants? Given that Jews are to be found in large
numbers in the mass media, is this to be regarded as particularly
sinister or dangerous? In other words, what's the big deal?"
We hope that we have answered these questions in
the foregoing part of this introduction. None of the other occupational
fields mentioned have anything like the scope for the wielding of real
power - political power, power over who governs us and to what purpose
power to shape our society and its values, to determine our destiny and
future.
We cannot therefore say of Jews in the media as
some might say of other groups in their respective occupations and lines
of business: "Oh well, they're good at it - let them get on doing it."
What is at stake in respect of control of an institution with such
massive power as the media places that institution in a special category
of its own, which justifies a very high degree of concern over the
matter.
Would we, for instance, feel happy and secure in
the knowledge (should such be the case) that a particular interest-group
exercised control over our armed forces? We might wonder, in that case,
where the loyalty of such a group would lie in the event of a war.
And if we bear in mind that power over the mass
media is today as potent in the possibilities it offers as command of a
hundred armoured divisions on the battlefield, that mass media power
should be a matter of tremendous concern, and we would be foolish to the
point of insanity to dismiss as of little importance a situation in
which it lays in the hands of people who themselves proclaim to be
"Jewish" in the first hand and who themselves openly proclaim loyality
to the Jewish state of Israel in the first hand.
And this is not all. As has been said, there is
today a very broad consensus view, transcending parties and classes,
that much of the influence of the mass media is malignant and socially
destructive in its effects.
We simply take the question further: if so many
believe the influence of the media to be malignant and destructive, we
should be examining the nature of the media - not the least important
question in which examination is: Who controls the media?
In a way, the study serves a purpose that is
supposed to be served by the mass media in any democracy: The purpose of
free and unfettered enquiry and of absolutely free expression of facts
and opinion. Unfortunately, there is neither free enquiry nor free
expression of either facts or opinion in the mass media in Britain today
- and least of all on the subject of this study. Just when did you last
see an article in a major newspaper examining, in proper depth, Jewish
influence and control in Britain's news and information industry? Just
when did you last see a programme on TV dealing with the same topic? The
answer to this question proves our point.
One phrase beloved of those who exercise
influence in the media is "investigative journalism". The "investigative
journalist" is depicted as the crusading hero whose quest for the truth
and whose dedication to the public interest leads him or her to take up
the cudgels against all the forces of would-be suppression and
censorship - even when, as is sometimes the case, this leads to a
particularly loathsome form of intrusion into people's private lives.
But one form of investigative journalism which the media are most
certainly not anxious to encourage is that which enquires into the
identity of their own controllers and the underlying agenda to which
they operate. In these pages we hope to remedy this glaring omission.
Naturally, we do not expect the facts which we
unearth here to be taken up by the media and examined in the light of
day. If there is any comment in the mass media on this study - which we
think doubtful - it will that of condemnation, of dismissal out of hand,
vith liberal use of the term "anti-semitism". But it will not extend to
any analysis of what we say or any attempt, by presentation of facts, to
prove us wrong.
From this, dear reader, we leave you to draw
your own conclusions.
Need for perspective
As we have prepared the material for this study
it has been brought home to us that media influence and control in the
modern world of communications is an immensely complex subject, in which
the dangers of over-simplification are always present. The mere presence
of members of a certain group working in a section of the media does not
itself prove that that group has the ultimate "say" in the section in
question. In addition to this, there is the fact that "control" of an
institution like the mass media can operate in more than one way. Direct
control through ownership is a relatively simple thing to understand,
but this understanding does not provide for indirect forms by which the
media can be, if not literally "controlled", then at least massively
influenced. In this study we will be examining the power of particular
lobbies to regulate the content of the press, TV, books and other means
of communication by various pressures, such as the picketing of studios
and bookshops (in which the implicit threat of violence is always
present) and, perhaps more potent still, the method of advertising
boycott (in which again the implicit threat of such an action can often
suffice to achieve the lobby's objective without the threat necessarily
having to be put into practice).
Another factor must be borne in mind when the
source of media control is being assessed. The communists in the heyday
of their power were known to say: "Give us just a third ot the places on
any committee and we will guarantee to control that committee." This was
simply a statement of the fact that a minority in any body, public or
private, which knows exactly what it wants and acts together as a co-ordinated
group, bound by a single loyalty and a single objective can quite easily
get its way over a larger, but uncoordinated, mass of people with no
such bonds, acting individually and in pursuit of no definite or
conscious objective. It is not our claim in this booklet that Jews
necessarily outnumber non-Jews in all sections of the media (though in
certain important ones this is indeed the case) but only that the
former's solidarity and oneness of loyalty, interest and purpose gives
them an immense advantage over others in any bid for power and
influence.
Students of Jewish influence in the mass media
will notice a paradox: while that influence is used, in a hundred or
more different ways, to weaken the national spirit and consiousness of
the British people, Jews themselves, in their attitude to their Jewish
state of Israel and to questions of Zionism generally, are to be found
amongst the world's most militant nationalists!
There is one final consideration of which we ask
you, the reader, to take account. Jewish power in the mass media is a
phenomenon acknowledged in political quarters widely different from our
own and sometimes even by Jews themselves - as we shall show in one or
two examples. In other words, as the saying goes, "Don't just take our
word for it!"
In the following text, we have highlighted
individuals of Jewish origin by setting their names in bold type. Not
all of the names in question will seem obviously Jewish; it has been the
habit of Jews over the centuries to change their names, adopting those
which best blend with the populations of the countries in which they
have settled. Where persons with non-Jewish names are designated as
Jewish, the reader can rest assured that extensive research has
established them.
Who controls the
broadcasting?
There can be little doubt that television is the
most powerful force for the presentation of the news and the formation
of attitudes. Go into any workplace, pub, school, shop, or other
institution and the chances are that the conversation will get around to
the previous night's "soap" or something of particular note on the
evening's news. And what was shown - and not shown - on the TV screen
will in all probability have affected the way in which the viewers see
the world.
By using such techniques, the controllers of the
TV stations have enormous power to shape popular opinion. And a glance
through any TV guide will reveal that, by providing us with an endless
diet of pro-Zionist pro-Jewish propaganda, the masters of the TV
stations are not shy of using that power. So just who are these people?
Just who is responsible for the poison peddled by "our" television
networks?
BBC
| The most
powerful man at the "British" Broadcasting Corporation is Alan
Yentob, Director of BBC programmes. According to Broadcast
magazine (14.6.96) this "gives him control over all non-news
BBC programmes including those for satellite channels and those in
English for the World Service." Yentob is a close personal
friend of the immensely powerful independent TV bosses Michael
Grade and Michael Green. The three have shared holidays
in the Caribbean and, together with Charles Saatchi, are
referred to by coy insiders as the "St. John's Wood Mafia". The
Saatchi and Yentob families have been closely connected
since before they moved to Britain from Iraq. |
BBC boss Alan Yentob |
|
Behind the scenes, Jews are well represented
among the Governors of the BBC, who include former president of the
merchant bank S.G. Warburg Sir David Scholey, Sir Kenneth
Bloomfield and Janet Cohen. Holders of important BBC
managerial posts include Sarah Frank, Chief Executive of BBC
Worldwide Americas; Controller of Publicity and Public Relations,
Keith Samuel, and David Aaronovitch, who is Managing Editor
of the BBC's weekly programmes. Anne Sloman is Deputy Head of BBC
News Programmes; Ruth Caleb is the Head of Drama, and Louis
Marks has been Producer of Drama since 1976. Another key figure in
terms of the BBC 's relationship with the rest of the world, Commercial
Director at BBC Worldwide TV Tony Kay, is responsible for deals
with American networks such as NBC. International Director of US cable
operator TCI, Adam Singer - son of former BBC Director-General
Aubrey Singer - has also been responsible for a number of recent big
deals between the BBC and TCI's British subsidiary Flextech.
Head of BBC Comedy Entertainment is Jon
Plowman. He is responsible for "alternative comedian" Ben Elton's
Thin Blue Line, a person who likes being interviewed in th
"respectable" Jewish Chronicle.
Jews in prominent positions in BBC regional TV
include Rod Natkiel, Head of Network TV at BBC Midlands and East,
and Roy Saatchi, Head of Local Programmes at BBC North.
The host of lower level functionaries who
implement the wishes of the media masters in such stations also includes
a vastly disproportionate number of Jews, such as Geoffrey Goodman,
who broadcasts on BBC Current Affairs and LBC/IRN- BBC TV's legal
correspondent Joshua Rosenberg. Naomi Goldman is not only a
Producer on Newsnight, but is also a member of the Jewish Socialist
Group. Another militant Zionist in BBC is writer and broadcaster Lisa
Jardine.
Channel 4
| The Chief
Executive of Channel 4 is Michael Grade, who succeeded its
creator Jeremy Isaacs. Grade previously controlled LWT and
BBC l and 2. He has been a director of First Leisure Entertainment
since 1991. This massive company was formerly headed by Grade's
uncle, the late Lord Bernard Delfont and includes 300
cinemas, eight theatres, hotels, restaurants and record divisions.
Grade's father, semi-retired TV magnate Lew Grade is still
Chairman of The Grade Co. and a director of Euro-Disney.
The endless diet of filth and perversion
which Channel 4 feeds to the public has earned Michael Grade
the sobriquet Britain's "pornographer-in-chief". In March, 1996,
he was also widely criticised after his brainchild The Girlie Show
ran an episode which clearly encouraged shoplifting. "Why do we
allow this millionaire to incite theft?" asked veteran columnist
Paul Johnson. |
Britain's
"pornographer-in-chief", Channel 4 boss Michael Grade
with his TV mogul uncle Lew |
|
Managing Director of Channel Four International
Ltd and Director of Acquisitions at C 4 is Colin Leventhal. This
busy man's acquisitions for the channel have included such American
shows as Roseanne and The Cosby Show which are produced by
Caryn Mandabach's Carsey Werner company. Leventhal has
also developed a close relationship with Nickelodeon, the subsidiary of
Sumner Redstone's Viacom Inc.
The next time you have the misfortune to see the
disgusting pieces of decadence which so often pass as "plays" on Channel
4, you should direct your complaint to the channel's Head of Drama,
David Aukin, or the Senior Commissioning Editor for Drama, Peter
Ansorge, although the latter spoke out strongly in favour of the
sympathetic depiction of incest on the soap Brookside at peak
family viewing time. Ansorge said that he expected to be attacked
for the storyline and condemned the "right-wing lobbies" which express
widespread public disquiet about the way in which all the soaps in
British broadcasting - with the exception as we go to press of
Coronation Street - have been turned into promotional vehicles for
sexual deviancy.
If, on the other hand, you are offended by the
extreme "liberal" tone and content of Channel Four News, reflect on the
fact that the News Editor since March 1996 has been Sara Nathan,
supported by Elinar Goodman. While Jon Snow, the extremist
liberal Channel Four newscaster is not Jewish, he has made his
sympathies clear by joining Jewish journalists in addressing a Jewish
Chronicle sponsored meeting on ethics in journalism.
Channel 4's youth programme production company,
Planet 24, has, according to the Jewish Chronicle "an uncanny
knack of fronting its popular Channel 4 programmes with blondish Jewish
women." These include Dani Behr playing a leading role
on The Word and Surf Polatoes and Gabi Roslin of the
Big Breakfast and the Gabi Roslin Show.
Among the many lesser players involved in the
never-ending stream of productions from Channel 4 are Michael and
Martin Myers, the distributors who run the First Independent
company; Stephanie Calman, who is the scriptwriter for the sitcom
Dressing for Breakfast; the viciously anti-British comedian
Mark Thomas, and Alexi Sayle, who says that since he is
Jewish, so are all his characters .
A number of Channel 4 programmes are produced by
Philip Clarke's Diverse Production company. These include
Diverse Reports, The Hello Girls and Dual Balls, a
"comedy" by Dan Zeff.
Clarke has now received funding from the BBC for
a new talent project and is currently scouring the UK's universities for
new pundits who could appear in a planned BBC 2 heavyweight discussion
programme.
ITV
The Independent Television Commission is the
regulatory body which overseas the whole of the ITV network. Its
Director is Jude Goffee and its senior sponsorship and
advertising officer is Eve Salomon. The Network Director of ITV
is Marcus Plantin, who was instrumental in appointing Claudia
Rosencrantz as ITV ' s Controller of Entertainment.
| Media group MAI
owns two ITV franchises (Anglia and Meridian); a 5 per cent stake
in ITN and a 29 per cent stake in Channel Five. A driving force in
the newly formed MAI/ United News and Media giant is Lord
Hollick, a Labour peer with close links with Hambros Bank, of
which he is a long-standing Director. Hollick has orchestrated MAI
' s rapid growth in media interests since 1990. He is a great
admirer of Michael Eisner's Disney empire and wants to be
one of the new breed of "lifestyle suppliers" - an
all-encompassing media brand which gives you your TV, radio,
newspapers, house, books, music, holidays, theme park thrills and
films (and, as a consequence, shapes your political opinions). |
To this end, MAI has established close links
with the second largest "American" megamedia corporation, Time Warner
Inc., whose Chairman is Gerald Levin, and its subsidiary HBO,
whose Vice President is Charles Schreger. One of the first deals
on the agenda is a plan to build a movie theme park on the outskirts of
London. A senior director of MAI's Anglia TV subsidiary is film
executive David Puttnam, best known for his Chariots of Fire,
which dwelt at length on the "anti-Semitism" encountered by a Cambridge
athlete early this century. Such problems certainly do not seem to have
held back Mr. Puttnam, whose many interests include being a
director of the Australian feature producer Village Roadshow Pictures,
which is partly owned by MAI. Anglia's Director of Programmes is
Graham Creelman. MAI's United News section is headed by Chief
Executive Stephen Grabiner.
The pivotal position in ITN's influential news
coverage is held by Robert Elias, Programme Editor of News at
Ten, while the power to decide what gets airtime at LBC rests with
its Controller of Programmes, Charles Golding.
Carlton
Communications
| Carlton is a
major force in the ITN network with assets including Carlton TV
and Central TV; a 20 per cent stake in ITN; Meridian TV and GMTV,
and a 50 per cent stake in London News Network. It has a £ 1.6
billion turnover, recording pre-tax profits of almost £ 250
million in 1995, and has significant assets in the Asian
sub-continent.
Carlton's Chairman is Michael Green,
who is also Director of Independent Television News, Central
Independent Television and GMTV. It was Green who, with the
Saatchi brothers, masterminded the fierce lobbying campaign
which persuaded the Government to sacrifice the independence of
ITV's 14 regional stations in 1993. Green, who is related by
marriage to Lords Wolfson and Young, was quoted in
the Jewish Chronicle of 17.11.95 as declaring that: "I
am very aware of being Jewish." |
Although his current affairs programmes enjoy
prying into the lives of others, Green himself is very
publicity-shy; when a girlfriend left him, his reported warning was:
"If you ever write a word about me, 1'11 break every bone in your body."
During Green's negotiations to buy Technicolor (UK), he was
helped by Jarvis Astaire, who lives with Green's
ex-mother-in-law, Lady Wolfson. Astaire himself is a former
associate of Ladbroke pools magnate Cyril Stein.
Carlton's head of sponsorship is David
Prosser, who is the co-ordinator of the ITV lobby pressing for the
abolition of laws which effectively outlaw sponsors which are closely
related to the editorial content of programmes. Richard Simons is
the company's Head of Features, while the Managing Director of Carlton
Select, the former Selec cable TV channel recently bought up by Carlton,
is Janet Goldsmith. The political agenda of Carlton was summed up
by the company´s decision to send its documentary on one of Oskar
Schindler's 'survivors' to 1,000 London secondary schools. The
pro-Zionist bias of children's and youth programmes at Carlton is the
responsibility of this sector's Controller Michael Forte.
The latest acquisition in Carlton's drive for
ever-greater influence is Westcountry Television, one of the last
privately owned ITV franchises. Another strong bidder for the company
was David Asper's CanWest broadcasting group, so it seems the
vendors, which included South West Water and Brittany Ferries, had a
choice of "any new owner you like, as long as he's one of us."
Granada Group
Carlton's power in "independent" television is
rivalled only by the Granada Group, which is worth around £ 6.2 billion
and owns two ITV franchises: Granada TV and London Weekend Television.
It also has a 20 per cent stake in ITN and Yorkshire Tyne Tees TV (with
Lazards merchantbank); a half-share in London News Network, and an 11
per cent stake in BSkyB, in partnership with which it has set up Granada
Sky Broadcasting (GSkyB), a joint cable and satellite venture which
launched seven new channels on 1st October 1996. BSkyB in turn has
stakes in the "adults-only" Playboy Channel. Among Granada's satellite
channels is Granada Talk TV, which includes an afternoon teen show,
F2F, which is presented by Sacha Baron Cohen.
Granada was founded by Sidney and
Cecil Bernstein. Alexander Bernstein was the long-standing
Chairman until he went into semi-retirement in March 1996 while
retaining his interest and influence. The newly created Granada Media
Group (GMG) is controlled by three men. The Chairman, Granada's Chief
Executive, Charles Allen, is not thought to be a Jew, but his two
colleagues at the top most definitely are.
| Duncan Lewis
is the Chief Executive of the Granada Media Group; Chief Executive
of Granada TV, and Chief Executive of London Weekend Television.
Lewis was formerly marketing director at BT, where he initiated
the nauseating Jewish grandmother adverts starring actress and
sponsor of the Zionist-controlled front organisation, the
Anti-Nazi League, Maureen Lipman. Until April 1996 Lewis
was head of Mercury Communications and, according to the
Evening Standard of 22.5.96, he is now heading a group of
finance houses seeking to take over Mercury. He is backed by
Warburg Pincus, the "American" firm which is already a key
investor in the British cable and television industry (including
Channel Five). City sources say that Granada's keeness to link up
with Mercury is based on the conviction that the communications
and entertainment businesses are set for further convergence. |
Chief Executive of the Granada Group,
Duncan Lewis |
|
The third key figure at Granada is Steve
Morrison. He is the chief Operating Officer of GMG; Deputy Chief
Executive of Granada TV, Managing Director of LWT and head of Granada's
sales operation Laser. On his way to the top, according to the Jewish
Chronicle of 1.9.95, Morrison was Director of Programmes and
Managing Director of Granada TV. His replacements in these last two jobs
are Peter Salmon and Andrea Wonfor respectively.
Commercial Director at LWT and GMTV is Kate Stross, and
Controller of regional programmes at LWT is Simon Shaps.
In October 1995 Granada launched British
Independent Television Enterprises (BRITE), which involved the merger of
the sales arms of Granada TV, LWT and Yorkshire Tyne Tees TV. The
Managing Director of this sales giant is Nadine Nohr.
One of Granada's leading functionaries is the
scriptwriter and producer Kay Mellor, a self-confessed feminist
responsbile for the "acclaimed" ITV series Band of Gold. Another
Granada regular is Paul Marcus, owner of Marlow Films and
producer of Granada's Prime Suspect.
Controller of Arts at LWT is Melvyn Bragg.
Although he describes himself as a "Christian",
Bragg is extremely pro-Jewish and told the Jewish Chronicle of
5.4.96 that he views Israel as his "spiritual home". Since this
interview came after extensive coverage of the brutal Israeli supression
of the Palestinian Intifada, with soldiers dynamiting Arab homes if one
member of the family is caught throwing stones, shooting dead unarmed
schoolchildren and burying teenagers alive with bulldozers, this comment
tells us a great deal about the mentality of this sickening "liberal"
and the chattering classes who regard him as their arbiter of artistic
good taste.
Pearson TV
Pearson TV is another significant part of the
ITV network, owning as it does Thames Television. Pearson TV Chairman
Greg Dyke is a Gentile, but he is another TV mogul who looks to Disney
Chairman Michael Eisner as a role model. Pearson TV is
partly-owned by Lazards Bank and has a long-term production relationship
with the third largest "American" megamedia group, Sumner Redstone's
Viacom Inc.
In any case, the day-to-day running of Pearson
Broadcasting is more the preserve of its Managing Director, Tony
Cohen, who has been tipped as a future successor to Dyke as
Chairman. His fellow directors include Sir Paul Fox, a past
controller of BBC 1 and Chairman of ITN from 1986 to 1988, who is also a
director of Satellite Information Services. With Scimitar Films Ltd.´s
Chairman, Michael Winner, and Jeremy Isaacs, Fox
was part of the 1988 Committee which was formed to fight proposals
included in the Obscene Publications Bill in response to public concern
over the ever-declining standards on display in the mass media. Other
directors at Thames include Harold Mourgue and Sir Claus Moser,
who is also a former Vice Chairman of N. M. Rothschild merchant bank.
Pearson TV has a quarter-share in Channel Five
and a 15 per cent stake in UK Gold, whose Chief Executive is Bruce
Steinberg. The global reach of the Pearson operation extends as far
as TV India, in which the company has a joint share in partnership with
its superficial rivals Carlton Communications and the investment bank
Schroders.
It is only fair to point out that the parent
Pearson conglomerate is owned mainly by the aristocratic Cowdray family.
Chairman Lord Blakenham is seen in the City as having a board dominated
by Old Etonians, although Reuben Mark is not a member of that
particular minority group. Since their interest in broadcasting is in
the money rather than the message, Pearson has recently sold off stakes
in BSSkyB and Yorkshire Tyne Tees.
Financial journalists are speculating that the
company may sell off its TV division altogether, in which case it
wouldn't require a crystal ball to predict the kind of people who would
be favourites to take it over!
Channel Five
The winning syndicate for the licence for this
new channel includes several of the supposed "rivals" whose Jewish links
have already been noted. These include MAI, Pearson and the US-based
Warburg Pincus. Their successful application promised "presenters whose
faces, voices, ages and regional and ethnic backgrounds reflect the
diversity of Britain in 1996." We won't be able to say we weren't
warned! Former BBC 1 Scheduler David Berg is now Controller of
Planning and Organisation at C 5, while the Controller of news, current
affairs and documentaries is Tim Gardam.
| The real power
at Channel 5, in any case, is its Chief Executive, David
Elstein. According to the Jewish Chronicle of January
3rd, 1997, Elstein has a "vast executive and programme-making
background with most of Britain's major networks."
Discussing the kind of programmes which
the new channel would carry, Elstein told the Jewish Chronicle
that:
"There are a lot of very vocal Jewish
thinkers and writers around, not necessarily representing Jewish
religious belief.
"You don't expect an awful lot of Yom
Kippur services to turn up in the work of people like Howard
Jacobson and Harold Pinter. But you are aware that they are
coming from a background which is influenced by Jewish life."
|
David Elstein, Chief
Executive of Channel 5
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Cable and Satellite
Channels
In addition to the Jewish presence in the
rapidly expanding fields of cable and satellite TV already notead,
James Ackerman works as the newly appointed Director of multichannel
covetures. As well as his already noted position as head of Britain's
second biggest satellite channel UK Gold, former MTV high-flier Bruce
Steinberg is also Chief Executive of the women's channel UK Living,
with an audience fast approaching three million every week.
Julian Aston is Managing Director of
Channel One, which at present supplies cable TV to around 300,000 homes
in London. He is assisted by his friend Michael Rosenblum, who
has been described by the Jewish Chronicle as "the American
video journalism guru".
The General Manager of Flextech TV's The
Children's Channel (TCC) cable/satellite operation is Franklin
Getchell. TCC's Chief Executive is Richard Wolfe and its
Senior Series Producer is leading US teenshow producer Mitchell
Kriegman, whose work includes the programme Sesame Street.
Flextech owns the satellite channel Bravo, whose General Manager
Yonni Cohen moved to Polygram last year, with Broadcast
magazine suggesting that his temporarily vacant post would be filled by
Getchell. The new Head of Programming at Bravo is Mark Deitch,
formerly BBC 1's Editor of Acquired Output. Flextech TV also owns the
Family Channel and manages TLC and the Discovery Channel .
Of all the new channels aimed at children and
young people, the most subversive has to be MTV Europe. This is a
subsidiary of Sumner Redstone's Viacom UK, as are VH-I; the
Paramount Channel; the Sci-Fi Channel; the Blockbuster video chain and,
as we have already seen, Nickleodeon TV. Paramount Pictures UK is headed
by Danton Rissner, while the Managing Director of the Sci-Fi
Channel is David Woodman. The President and Business Director of
MTV Europe is Peter Einstein, backed up by Senior Vice Presidents
Gil Aronow and Boris Katz. Through his MTV empire,
Redstone and his Chief Operating Officer Mark Rosenthal offer
Beavis and Butthead as teenage role models and pump their narrow
views and music-clad propaganda into 210 million homes in 71 countries.
MTV has been accurately described as the dominant cultural (sic!)
influence on teenagers around the world.
In September 1995 MTV Europe was fined a total
of £ 60,000 for two programmes dealing with under-age sex which even the
ITC described as "smutty". Einstein protested that he had not
seen any difference in the levels of taste and decency in the eight
years that the channel had been on the air. Indeed!
Another satellite and cable channel aimed at
youngsters is The Box-Music TV, whose Programme Director is Liz
Laskowski. The UK satellite Warner Channel is the work of Jeffrey
Schlesinger, President of Warner Bros International Television.
Raymond Jaffe is the Director of Publicity and Promotion at Sky TV.
The satellite news services are also firmly in
the usual hands. Reuters TV Executive Editor is David Feingold
and its Managing Director is David Kogan (who also oversees
London Radio), while head of its newsgathering operation at Sky News is
Malcolm Switzer. Meanwhile David Feingold is chief of the
London bureau of Cable News International (CNN)-now part of Gerald
Levin's Time Warner Corporation-and as such is answerable only to
the Managing Director of CNN International, Randy Freedman.
UKTV was one of the companies which submitted
unsuccessful bids for Channel 5. In spite of this rebuff its owner,
Canadian Jewish media mogul David Asper is still very keen to
increase his control within the British media. His stated aim is to see
the UK move towards Canada and the US in terms of an increase in
commercial TV stations and cable TV penetration. UKTV is at present just
a small part of the Asper family's Can West Global
Communications, which also has interests in Canada, Australia, New
Zealand and Chile. While his father sits on the governing board of
Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Asper describes himself as a
"cultural rather than religious Jew".
Another big company seeking to extend its grip
to this side of the Atlantic is Polygram Filmed Entertainment. Yoni
Cohen was appointed Vice President of Television and Broadcasting at
PFI in July 1996 to oversee the launch of Polygram's new international
TV network.
Radio
The single most powerful man in British radio is
acting Manager of BBC Network Radio, Michael (John) Green. His
permanent replacement is tipped to be Jenny Abramsky, the former
editor of The World at One and Today, who is at present
Controller not only of Radio Five Live, but also 24-hour UK news, BBC
World, Ceefax, and Multimedia Services. As head of Drama at BBC Network
Radio is Caroline Raphael. She was also editor of Drama, Features
and Youth Programmes on Radio 5. According to the Jewish Chronicle,
Miss Raphael admits to having a strong Jewish identity.
The millions of listeners who are now resigned
to hearing ludicrous outbursts of "political correctness" every time
they tune in to a BBC radio station should listen carefully to the names
of producers and similar highlevel functionaries listed at the end of
such offerings. It cannot be denied that a disproportionate number are
Jews. These include senior BBC producers Daniel Snowman and
Suzanne Levy, who was, for example, responsible for Radio 4's
hysterical "Holocaust" propaganda piece 20/20-a view of the century.
46 per cent of Talk Radio UK is controlled by
Peter Clark, owner of Media Ventures International. Clark,
who has strong links with the Labour Party, was until recently acting
Head of Talk Radio, whose other shareholders are Hambros Bank,
Luxembourg-based media group CLT and Can West boss David Asper,
who owns 24.5 per cent of the company. Many of this cheap, tacky and
sleazy station's presenters are Jewish, including Nancy Roberts,
Garry Jacobs, Jonny Gould, Janet Gershlick and Vanessa Feltz.
Clark's other interests include a 10 per cent stake in Teletext,
ownership of Circle Communications and a 40 per cent stake in Brian
Eastman's drama production operation Carnival Films.
The strongly pro-Jewish Associated Newspapers
group owns large chunks of the "independent" radio group GWR and Classic
FM, where it has installed John Spearman as Chief Executive.
Noteworthy in independent radio are such luminaries as the Chief
Executive of EMAO Radio Tim Schoonmaker, who controls commercial
radio in the North-east, and Roberta Aarons, who is Head of
Production at SSVC, which provides TV and radio services for the MOD.
Lynne Franks is the founder of Radio
Viva, the UK' s first "wimmin's" radio station. She told the Jewish
Chronicle: "I enjoy being Jewish in a cultural sense and love
being with other Jewish women."
As is the case with TV and films, Jews are in
prominent and powerful positions in the regulatory institutions of
independent radio. Tony Stoller is Chief Executive of the Radio
Authority, while Yvonne Kintoff is Managing Director of the Radio
Advertising Clearing Centre.
Who controls the
entertainment?
While TV and radio dominate our perception of
current affairs, the cinema and pop music also play a very strong role
in changing cultural values. A film in which a heart-throb actor
portrays a character with a traditionally frowned upon behavioural or
character defect - will help to persuade large numbers of viewers that
such behaviour is, after all, acceptable, even fashionable.
Such a message put out in a political debate or
by a campaigning group, would be rejected by all normal people; but
conveyed as a subtle message in a host of films or pop songs, it is
accepted at a subliminal level by many viewers.
Cinema, Music &
Entertainment
As with the broadcasting media, the "British"
film industry includes a vastly disproportionate number of Jews, both
among the major producers and in its regulatory bodies. The creator and
head of the British Film Commission is Sidney Samuelson, who is
also a trustee of BAFTA (British Film and Television Arts) and Chairman
of its management committee. Knighted by John Major in June 1995, he is
a great admirer of Steven Spielberg and his mendacious propaganda
film Schindler 's List. Sir Sidney is also the President of the
Samuelson Group plc, which, according to the Jewish Chronicle of
23.6.95, is the world's largest film, TV and audio-visual equipment
organisation.
As Chief Executive and Director of the British
Board of Film Classification, James Ferman holds the key
regulatory position in the British film industry . As such he has been
widely criticised for the board' s ultra-liberal judgements. In 1995,
for example, only two of the 364 films considered by the BBFC were cut
to reduce sexual violence. Elected local councillors and members of the
public, who accused Ferman and his board of being irresponsible, were
attacked as culturally illiterate and "provincial".
Meanwhile, former Channel Four boss Jeremy
Isaacs has been very influential as a Governor of the British Film
Institute since 1979. Keeping an eye out for rising stars and potential
dissidents in the next generation of production staff is the Chairman of
the National Film and TV School, David Puttnam.
Also in a position to give a helping hand to
deserving would-be movie moguls is Baron Joel Barnett, the former
Labour Cabinet minister who has been the Chairman of British Screen
Finance Ltd since 1980, as well as having served as Vice Chairman of the
BBC Board of Governors from 1986 to 1993.
Chrysalis Group
The Chief Executive of Crysalis Visual
Entertainment is Michael Pilsworth. CVE' s portfolio of
"independent" film producers includes Red Rooster Film & TV, and
Watchmaker Productions. Chrysalis is close to overtaking Thames TV as
the top UK independent producer.
In addition to his other powerful positions
noted earlier, David Puttnam is a Chrysalis director. He is also
Chairman of the Enigma film company, which has close ties with Gerald
Levin's Time Warner conglomorate and BSkyB. Puttnam is a
close friend of Edgar Bronfman Jr. - owner of the massive MCA
entertainment group and Universal Studios - and spent three years as
Chairman and Chief Executive at Columbia Pictures. In addition to all
this, Puttnam is Chairman of International Television Enterprises
Ltd. He produced the Labour Party's 1992 election broadcast and is a
regular at Labour fundraising events, as well as being at the forefront
of Labour's thinking on the information superhighway.
Polygram
| The President
and Chief Executive of the £ 5.5 billion Polygram global
entertainment group is Alain Levy, former head of CBS
France.
In January 1995, Polygram paid 100 million
pounds for Lord Grade's old company ITC Entertainment. The
expanded Polygram Films entertainment subsidiary is headed by
Michael Kuhn under whose guidance it produced the highly
successful but Four Weddings and a Funeral and Priscilla
- Queen of the Desert. |
Alain Levy: Polygram
boss |
|
Polygram International Music is also expanding,
with its boss David Hockman recently snapping up leading rap
label Def Jam.
Rank Organisation
plc.
Chairman of the Rank Organisation, with major
worldwide interests in leisure and entertainment and UK assets including
the Odeon cinema chain, Mecca Leisure, the Hard Rock Cafe chain and
Pinewood Studios, is Sir Leslie Fletcher. Managing Director of
Rank Amusements Ltd. is J. Cohen.
Rank has close ties with MCA, with which it
jointly owns Universal Studios. MCA is in turn part of Edgar J.
Bronfman Jr's Seagram empire. Bronfman, President of the
World Jewish Congress, is one of the world's most powerful Zionists and
backs a number of shadowy, but influential, organisations which are
constantly on the lookout for possible threats to Jewish identity and
cohesion.
The London-based MCA Records is managed by
Steve Wolfe and MCA Music Entertainment International has Meir
Malinsky as Senior Executive.
RCA Records
The same phenomenon may be seen at RCA Records,
whose artists include the muchhyped "supergroup" Take That. RCA's
Managing Director is Hugh Goldsmith; the company's Head of
Artistic Development is David Joseph, and the International
Director is Nancy Farbman.
Sony Corporation
While Sony would no doubt be regarded by most
people as a Japanese company, the truth is that the decisions - which
acts it signs or doesn't sign, who is to be hyped to the top of the
charts and what messages they should put across to the owners of their
Japanese-made electrical goods - are made by Jews. Paul Burger is
the Chairman and Chief Executive of Sony Entertainment (UK), which
includes the Sony record label. Burger, whose major artists
include Michael Jackson, is also Chairman of "The Brit Awards" which is
produced by Michael Gerrie. Senior Vice Presidents and Executives
at Sony UK include Jonathan Sternberg, Gerhard Blum and Sara
Silver.
Thorn-EMI
This is another one of the interlocked global
media corporations with heavy Jewish involvement. Its Directors include
Sir Graham Day and H. Einsmann. The Senior Vice President of
EMI Music Worldwide is Charles Diamont and the Managing Director
is Michelle Burger. Vice President of EMl's International Media
Division is Jeremy Silver.
Warner Chappel Music
Ltd.
The London-based music subsidiary of the
Time-Warner Corporation, this operation too has a Jewish Managing
Director - R. Godfrey-Kess.
Less well-known
companies
Many smaller companies with less well-known
names also play an important part in determining the flavour of popular
music and film entertainment. The Managing Directors of the One World
Entertainment music company, of Vision Music Entertainment and of record
distributor Entertainment UK are, respectively, Alan Bellman, Dan
Reedman and Richard Cowan.
| Robert Earl
is founder of President Entertainments and owner of the
movie-theme restaurant Planet Hollywood. For five years, Earl
was President of Hard Rock Cafe International, and he also
helped produce the semi-pornographic fim Dirty Weekend with
his close friend film producer Michael Winner and authoress
Helen Zahavi. |
Robert Earl - junk
food, junk films |
|
Marshall's Communications Group is chaired by
Mike Isaacson, who is also Executive Producer of its subsidiary
company, Film Crest. Mentorn Films is run by Tom Gutteridge; Blue
Heaven Productions is headed by Neil Zeiger, and the very English
sounding Stonehenge Productions is in fact controlled by Peter
Kosminsky, who has close ties with MAI Productions.
Media Productions was launched in 1993 as the
first film and television financing and sales outfit to be created under
the Business Expansion Scheme, and quickly achieved success with its
low-budget hit, Leon the Pig Farmer - Leon being an orthodox Jew.
Its Directors are Stephen Margolis and David Altschuler,
who is also Director of feature film production company Cavalier
Features, and co-founder of National Leasing and Finance, a company
which arranges finance for deals involving past film titles.
The power to decide which films are bought or
put back into circulation has a very significant behind-the-scenes
influence on the kind of films which get made in the first place. The
UK's largest privately-owned media buying concern, TMB, is headed by
Chairman and Chief Executive Alan Rich, and has four Jewish
directors.
| The Ministry of
Sound "rave" nightclub empire is run by James Palumbo. His
Managing Director is Mark Rodol. In the months before the
1997 general election, James Palumbo helped to organise the
Labour Party's appeal to young people, and ran a well-financed
campaign. He also gave the unlimited free use of a chaffeur-driven
silver Rover to Labour's media staff at Millbank Tower. It was
promptly commandeered by Peter Mandelson, the party's chief
election planner and Tony Blair's eminence grise, although the
disco-dancing bachelor's "aide", Benjamin Wegg-Prosser,
maintained that "Peter is not the only person who uses it". |
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James Palumbo - junk
music, junk politics
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M&G Records boss, Michael
Levy. Tony Blair's chief fundraiser
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Who controls the
advertising?
The power of the purse is nowhere more apparent
than in the field of advertising, whose magnates not only decide what
images are used to promote particular products and ideas, but also have
a great deal of influence over where vast corporate advertising budgets
are spent. Their ability to determine which channels, magazines and
newspapers are used - or not used - for major advertising campaigns
gives such individuals an immense amount of influence over the producers
and editors of supposedly independent media operations.
Companies placing advertisements also have a
great deal of "clout" over the media. There have been a number of
instances when the big High Street retail chains - another area
dominated by Jews, but outside the scope of this survey - has been used
to persuade Gentile newspaper owners and editors to toe the line. As far
back as the 1930s, for example, the threat of a Jewish advertising
boycott forced Lord Rothermere to stop articles in support of Sir Oswald
Mosley appearing in his Daily Mail. More recently, similar
threats have been brought to bear against a medical magazine for
carrying articles critical of Israeli treatment of Palestinians, and
against the Sunday Times, which was persuaded to break its
contract with historian David Irving to translate its Goebbels Diaries
extracts.
And one shouldn´t forget that in Japan the
popular Japanese magazine Marco Polo was forced to close down by
an international advertising boycott organised by Zionists, after
carrying an article pointing out many of the glaring flaws in the "Six
Million Gassed Jews" propaganda story.
| The world's
largest advertising and marketing group, WPP, is based in London
and headed by its multi-millionaire Chief Executive Martin
Sorell, formerly Advertising Director with 1980s advertising
giant Saatchi and Saatchi. Maurice Saatchi now runs
the Megalomedia Group, whose non-advertising interests include a
10 per cent stake in The Multimedia Corporation, the producer of
CD Roms such as 3d Atlas, cybercafes and computer software. Other
shareholders include the boss's wife, novelist Josephine Hart,
his brother Charles Saatchi and Lord (Jacob)
Rothschild's RIT Capital Partners. Megalomedia owns the
digital film and television studio FrameStore, which produces film
titles and special effects. Says Chairman Saatchi: "We
believe that digitalisation and computer technology will continue
to play an increasingly fundamental role in media. We are now well
placed to capitalise on the commercial potential offered by such a
dynamic sector." |
Charles and
Maurice Saatchi |
|
A bizaare feature in the Evening Standard
early in January 1995 describes Tony Kaye as "one of
Britain's, and America's, leading directors of television adverts and a
man whose eye-catchingly unorthodox style has made him a legend in his
business". The story arose from a classified advertisement which
Kaye had placed in the Cars for Sale section of the paper two days
before Christmas. The full text of the advert read: "JEWISH CAR FOR
SALE. Four telephones and one fax machine. £ 1.3 Million. Ring Tony Kaye
on 0101-310-720-3613." He also placed the advert in the Sunday Times,
but within a few days was shocked to be on the receiving end of a
"deluge" of abusive and threatening telephone calls from Jews who
thought it was anti-Semitic. "There were some horrible messages on my
answering machine", including death threats, he told the Standard.
As a matter of fact he did have a nearly new Lincoln executive-series
limousine for sale at the price mentioned, and it did come complete with
four phone lines and a fax, and its American registration plate did read
"Jewish" because, as Mr. Kaye was at pains to point out, he is Jewish
"and very proud of it".
Tony Kaye got his first big break working
with Saatchi & Saatchi and went on to win 13 "Pencils" (the ad
world's equivalent of Oscars) in six years. His television adverts
included British Rail's chess-playing rabbi and the penguin, the
children dancing around Lionel Bart for Abbey National and the sado-masochistic
and nightmarish images used in Dunlop commercials.
Who controls what we
read?
Although the printed word is no longer as
powerful as it once was, and although the broadcasting media are now the
most important factor in shaping general popular attitudes, the owners,
editors and journalists of national newspapers still have immense power.
In particular, it is the national newspapers which decide the issues on
which elections will, and will not, be fought. Press coverage is still
the key factor which makes or breaks politicians, and which sets the
parameters of "acceptable" political thought. The national newspapers
have long been termed the "Fourth Estate", but this even this phrase
under-estimates their power. It is in truth no exagerration to say that
whoever controls the press controls the political direction of the
nation.
The Jewish presence in the press is not as
all-pervading as it is in the broadcast media. But such is the cowardice
of the vast majority of the intellectual prostitutes known as
journalists, that it seems that Organised Jewry is able to impose its
line on the British press by rather more remote control than in the case
of television. Having said which, the number of Jews in key positions in
the tangled web of newspaper ownership and production is still out of
all proportion to their numbers in the British population as a whole.
The same can be said of publishing generally,
with the additional factor that many publishing houses are owned by
Jewish-owned companies based in the USA.
The Press Associated
Newspapers
As well as owning the Daily Mail and
London Evening Standard, Associated Newspapers has a one-fifth stake
in the TV news company ITN, owns 20 per cent of the ITV company
Westcountry TV, 14 per cent of Selec TV and nearly half of Teletext.
| One of
Associated Newspapers´ major players is Stewart Steven -
real name Stefan Gustaf Cohen. Having come to Britain in
1941 as a six-year-old refugee, Steven was appointed
Assistant Editor of the Daily Mail in 1972, going on to
edit the Mail on Sunday in 1981, before becoming editor of
the Evening Standard. He is a Director of Associated
Newspapers Holdings Ltd, Mail Newspapers plc., and The Mail on
Sunday. Steven boasts of his influence on the British
Government that "every member of the Government knows me by my
Christian (sic) name".
The Managing Director and Managing Editor
of the Daily Mail are Guy Zitter and Lawrence
Sear, while the editor of the Mail on Sunday is
Jonathan Holborrow. A study of a randomly chosen day's issue
of the Mail suggests that Jews make up nearly a third of
its journalists (excluding writers for the politically irrelevant
sports pages, who are invariably Gentiles) - including Middle East
specialist Paul Harris, Geoffrey Levy, Richard Kay, Jonathan
Margolis, Sam Harris, Sarah Ebner and Gaby Hinsiff. |
Stewart Steven of
Associated Newspapers |
|
Anne Applebaum is Associate Editor of the
London Evening Standard, as well as writing regularly for the
Daily Mail and Sunday Telegraph. When Evening Standard
columnist Matthew Norman criticised Tory Home Secretary
Michael Howard for agreeing to legislation "that would have
deprived his father of sanctuary in Britain", he did so in such
extreme terms that Gerald Jacobs was moved to write a piece in
the Jewish Chronicle criticising Jewish hypersensitivity and the
"psychological condition" which "sees any public criticism of Jews by
Jews as fuel for gentile scorn and anti-Semitism. That way real madness
lies".
Another Evening Standard reporter,
Mark Honigsbaum, penned a remarkably indiscreet article for the
paper's "London Life" feature on 21st January, 1992. Headlined "The TV
Clique", its sub-heading told readers that:
"David was at school with Michael who plays
snooker with Charles who knows Alan who is a friend of Michael.
Together these five men form a powerful group who have a massive
influence on what you will be watching on television today."
The five referred to are, of course, David
Elstein, Michael Grade, Charles Saatchi, Alan Yentob and Michael
Green.
| Another
Associated bigwig is Clive Wolman, founder and
editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine London Financial News
and formerly editor of the Mail on Sunday City edition.
Wolman cut his journalistic teeth editing the Oxford
University magazine Isis, before spending two years in
Israel working on the Jerusalem Post. Among the backers of
Wolman's venture are his longstanding friend Anthony
Julius - the Princess of Wales's lawyer and author of a
vicious attack on the great poet T.S. Eliot, whom he regards as
"anti-Semitic"- and Lawrence Lever, financial columnist at
the Mail on Sunday. At a Jewish Chronicle-sponsored
meeting in March 1996, Lever spoke of the personal unease with
which he sometimes approached reporting on Jewish businessmen who
had acted illegally or unethically. |
Clive Wolman.
Former City Editor of the Mail on Sunday, now runs the
London Financial News |
|
The new magazine - aimed at stockbrokers,
fundmanagers, corporate financiers and traders - is distributed on the
Internet by the on-line business information company, MAID, whose Chief
Executive is Dan Wagner. A £ 500,000 launch campaign was
conducted by publishing director Gary Stern - a Young Jewish Care
leader - who also invested his own capital in the venture.
News Group
International
NGl's assets include the lion's share of BSkyB;
Twentieth Century Fox, and major British newspapers such as The Sun,
News of the World; The Times; The Sunday Times, and the Times Literary
and Educational Supplements. Its Chief Executive, Rupert Murdoch,
is usually regarded as a "Gentile", although he has been described as a
"mamzer Jew". His father, Keith, although only a lowpaid reporter, made
a fortuitous marriage to the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family,
Elisabeth Joy Greene. The family fortune enabled Murdoch Senior to
buy himself a knighthood, a radio station and two Adelaide newspapers,
as well as to educate his son at the fashionable Geelong private school
and then to send him to Oxford.
When his father died and the young Murdoch
returned to Australia to take over the two newspapers. Over the next
three years Murdoch plonked down millions to buy newpapers and radio and
TV stations all over Australia. By 1968 Murdoch's media empire was worth
£ 46 million. His buying spree continued throughout the 1970s, as he set
up in Britain and then the United States. With his move into satellite
TV and film studios, the last few years have seen Murdoch establish his
influence on a truly global scale, with assets of £ 14.3 billion.
| This remorseless
rise owes something to Murdoch's undoubted knack of identifying
and pandering to the lowest tastes of the public, but far more
important has been the backing of four multi-national mega-money
moguls. Murdoch first started to move in these circles when his
father asked Lord Beaverbrook to train young Rupert in the
newspaperbusiness. Beaverbrookintroduced Murdoch to Harry
Oppenheimer, head of the massive Anglo-American Corporation
and the deBeers diamond and gold cartel, and Edgar Bronfman.
Impressed by the young Murdoch, they told him to call on them if
he ever needed help. |
Harry Oppenheimer.
One of Murdoch's fantastically rich financial backers |
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Within a few years Murdoch was acting as the
front-man for media buy-ups financed by Oppenheimer and Bronfman, as
well as being helped by the conman Armand Hammer and the
Rothschild empire. This almost limitless financial backing is the
real force behind Murdoch's mercurial rise to control, among his other
media interests, a yearly newspaper circulation of 3.5 billion copies.
Nor is Murdoch shy of using this enormous power
to further his, and his backers' own political agenda. As far back as
1972, after Australian Labour Party leader Whitlam had agreed to pursue
a 100 per-cent pro-Israeli policy and to protect Murdoch's media
monopoly, the power of that monopoly was used to run a block-busting
campaign which steamrollered Whitlam into power. When Whitlam promptly
reneged on the deal, making overtures to the Arabs and refusing to grant
mining leases to Oppenheimer, Murdoch's media turned on him as
part of the successful campaign to have Whitlam removed from office and
replaced by the fervently pro-Zionist Bob Hawke.
More recently, American media mogul Ted Turner
was forced to apologise to the Anti-Defamation League after likening his
rival to the "late Fuehrer", alleging that, like Hitler, Murdoch uses
the media outlets over which he has control to further his political
agenda. Included on that agenda are attacks on Murdoch's enemies, among
which he includes the Germans, the Irish, the Arabs and anti-Zionists,
"the supreme traitors".
In addition to his shadowy backers, a number of
the key positions around the "Dirty Digger" are held by Jews. These
include Peter Chernin, who heads Murdoch's film studio and
oversees his TV production, and David Elstein, Head of
Programming at BSkyB until his recent promotion to the still more
powerful post of Chief Executive of C 5. Chief Executive of BSkyB is
Sam Chisholm, while Raymond Jaffe is the Director of
Publicity and Promotion at Sky TV.
The Managing Director of The Sun and News of the
World scandal sheets is A. A. Fischer, while their Managing
Editors are William Newman and Stuart Kuttner
respectively. Since becoming Editor of the News of the World, Wendy
Henry has presided over a further degeneration of her paper, which
has to be acknowledged as a remarkable achievement. Her boss Kuttner
has spoken at meetings of the Board of Deputies of British Jews on the
question of sensitisity in the portrayal of Jews and Israel in the
media. The City Editor of the Times is Melvyn Marckus.
In October 1996 seventy Israeli tax inspectors
raided the Jerusalem offices of Murdoch's News Datacom computer software
subsidiary. The operation took place after the issue of a warrant
alleging "tax transgressions, tax evasion and helping others to evade
taxes between the years 1989 and 1996 of an amount of about $ 150
million." Also raided were a factory in Haifa and New Datacom's lawyers,
the eminent firm of Herzog, Fox and Neeman, whose founder was the former
Israeli president, Chaim Herzog. Murdoch's company protested its
innocence and blamed "defamatory" comments in the Israeli media on "a
continuing campaign against the company by former employees who have
been sued in the UK... for defrauding (us) of millions of dollars."
Whatever the truth of this affair, it provides a tantalising glimpse of
the behind-the-scenes connections of the Murdoch empire.
Telegraph Group
The Chairman of The Telegraph plc is Conrad
Black. Although supposedly a Canadian Gentile, Black, who is a member of
the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group, is also a Director of
Jerusalem Post Publications Ltd. Furthermore, not only was his first
wife Jewish, but so is his second, Barbara Amiel. She makes no
attempt to hide her extreme pro-Zionist views, using the columns of the
Daily Telegraph to berate other sections of the media and
politicians for what she believes is hostility to Israel. A particularly
outstanding example of Mrs. Black's paranoia is an article which
appeared in the Daily Telegraph of 3.10.96 under the hysterical
heading: "This hatred of Israel is close to fascism." Most absurdly of
all, she referred bitterly to "some Guardian and Independent
commentators who, to put it bluntly, come close to a genteel fascism
akin to the Thirties." Presumably she wasn't thinking of the Independent
's main columnists Neal Ascherson or David Aaronovitch.
Kindly souls of a more rational disposition can only hope that she
doesn't ever see a copy of this publication!
The Telegraph plc is in turn 82 per cent owned
by the Hollinger Group, on whose board sits international power-broker
Henry Kissinger. Hollinger also own the Spectator and no
fewer than 230 major magazines and newspapers in the United States.
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Director of Telegraph Newspapers is Stephen Grabiner, while
Directors of the Telegraph include Rupert Hambro,
Group Managing Director of J.O. Hambro Investment Management and a
Director of Harry Oppenheimer's AngloAmerican Corporation;
Sir Martin Jacomb, and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild.
The Sunday Telegraph is edited by
Dominic Lawson. The Young Telegraph, the distinctly
children's supplement, is edited by Damian Kelleher, whose
deputy is Kitty Melrose. |
Telegraph boss
Stephen Grabiner |
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Mirror Group
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Mirror and Sunday Mirror were, of course, the
mouth-pieces of the utterly corrupt "refugee" from Czechoslovakia,
Bob Maxwell (real name, Hoch). Having looted his
employees' pension fund in a failed effort to stave off the collapse
of his house-of-cards financial empire, Maxwell finally met a
well-deserved and watery end off the side of his personal yacht.
This prominent Zionist activist was honoured with a burial ceremony
in occupied Palestine, the so-called "Israel"- a ceremony attended
by leading Israeli government officials.
The Mirror Group, which is also a major
shareholder in the Independent, was sold off after his death,
and is now in the hands of a shadowy business conglomerate. |
Robert Maxwell - Jewish
media mogul |
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Other Publications
A long-term key-player in the Observer Trust was
the financial journalist, publisher, and investment wheeler-dealer
Sir Stephen (Harry) Waley-Cohen, who was involved with the upper
echelons of this heavyweight left-of-centre Sunday newspaper, between
1976 and 1981. Nowadays, however, Sir Stephen is only Chairman of
the Jewish Chronicle Trust, and the Observer is in the more
discreet hands of the Guardian Group. This holding company has
directoral links with Hambros merchant bank, whose own Directors include
Lord Hollick, whose United News and Media Group owns 30 regional
newspapers in South East England alone, as well as periodicals such as
Exchange & Mart. Hollick is reported as considering selling off
his UPN South East operation in order to concentrate on his regional
newspapers in Yorkshire and the North West.
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certainly presents no alternative to the prevailing bias of the
rest of the media. Its "expert"' on "anti-Semitism" is Nick
Cohen, who describes as "admirable" the work of the extreme
Zionist-infiltrated magazine Searchlight, which specialises
in encouraging violent mobs to attack the peaceful and legal
meetings of its opponents. Searchlight, whose sloppy research cost
the BBC huge libel action payouts, a few years ago, is edited by
Gerry Gable. |
The Observer´s
Nick Cohen |
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1996 saw the launch of the UK's first
all-financial Sunday paper, the Sunday Business. This was backed
by American-based newswire owner Michael Bloomberg, with Tony
Rubython as Editor.
At the opposite
end of the social scale of special interest groups is the Big
Issue, founded on the initiative of Bodyshop owner Anita
Roddick. Speaking to the Jewish Chronicle at the start of
1996, the Big Issue's Director Lucie Russell, confided that
at least ten of its staff are Jews:
"Jews are attracted to this sort of
work - they like to be active in changing the world."
Many of the glossy magazines which adorn our
newsstands do not reveal the identities of their staff, and detailed
research into which holding companies and publishers own which
publications is beyond the scope of this study. Even a cursory
glance, however, reveals a vastly disproportionate number of Jews
involved. |
Anita Roddick: founded
the Big Issue |
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on The Spectator include Milton Shulman and Mark
Steyn. Samantha Weinberg is Features Editor at
Harpers & Queen. Vogue Editor Alexandra Shulman
also writes a column in the Daily Telegraph, which she has
used to promote clothes designers such as Tommy Hilfilger.
Also busy at Vogue are Picture Editor Isabella Kullman,
Account Manager Rachel Raelevy, Assistant to the Publishing
Director Emma Halpin, and Chairman Daniel Salem.
Contributors include Rhoda Koenig and Nigella Lawson.
Deirdre Vine is Editor of Woman's Journal, Sarah
Bravo is Managing Editor of Ideal Home. Just 17
and More - both widely criticised for publishing explicit
and liberal sex advice for their young readers - have on their
respective staff lists Jews like Piers Wenger and
Deborah Selner, and Tony Cross and Trish Halpin.
Deborah Selner is Promotion Arts Editor on both magazines. |
Alexandra Shulman.
Vogue Editor and Daily Telegraph columnist
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Felix Dennis - one of the three
defendants in the infamous 1971 Oz obscenity trial - now publishes many
magazines, including the world's most successful CD-ROM magazine,
Blender.
The "up-market" men's G.Q. has among its
Contributing Editors James Bloom, Peter Koenig, David Cohen, Chris
Peachment and Christopher Silvester, while Jo Levin is
Fashion Director. A glance at virtually any newsstand magazine will
reveal a similar situation, with significant Jewish input on
publications ranging from Empire movie magazine to New Woman,
Cosmopolilan to Vanity Fair.
PUBLISHING
A detailed examination of the question of who
controls the book publishing houses is another area beyond the scope of
this slim study, but a brief overview reveals much the same situation as
with the rest of the mass media. In addition to its interests noted
above, the Pearson Group owns not only the Financial Times Group and, in
partnership with N. M. Rothschild merchant bank, the rabidly
internationalist prophet of the global economy The Economist
magazine. Pearson also owns the major publishing companies Penguin and
Longman. The editor of the Financial Times, Michael Lambert,
addressed a Jewish Care business group meeting in November 1995. His
Assistant Editor is Samuel Brittan.
The Chief Executive Chairman of the Longman
Group is Paula Kahn. Simon & Schuster is only part of the
publishing division of Sumner Redstone's Viacom empire, which
also owns US publishers Prentice Hall and Pocket Books. Random House,
the largest publisher in the USA and a major player in the UK industry,
is owned by Samuel and Donald Newhouse. Their Advance
Publications holding company is worth an estimated $ 8 billion, and
includes 26 daily newspapers, 87 cable TV stations and some two dozen
major magazines, including up-market titles such as Vogue,
Vanity Fair and Mademoiselle.
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founded by 1940s refugee Paul Hamlyn, who sold the company
before setting up Octopus, which he in turn sold to Reed for £ 535
million and 22.1 million Reed shares. His close friend Bob
Gavron is another publishing millionaire, having sold his St.
Ives printing company in 1993. He then bought The Folio, the
up-market book club which specialises in reprinting classics, and
provided the money to set up the Virago press. Gavron is
one of the small band of Jewish millionaires who have financed
Tony Blair' s redesigning of the Labour Party. Apart from his own
half-million pound donation, Gavron was also appointed as a member
of the party's key fund-raising committee for the general
election. Paul Hamlyn alone has kicked in £ 600,000. |
Bob Gavron - a
"proud" but non-religious Jew, and bank-roller of Tony Blair |
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| The Managing
Director of Andre Deutsch is T. G. Rosenthal, who is also
prominent at The Bookseller. It is worth noting the
familiar pattern of Jewish predominance in influential
institutions at the top of the industry. Louis Baum is
Editor of The Bookseller, and that British Journalism
Review is edited by Geoffrey Goodman and has Jewish
Care's 1990 Woman of Distinction Jenny Abramsky on its
Editorial Board. Longman hotshot Paula Kahn is the
President of the Publishers' Asssociation, and Chief Executive of
the English Teaching Advisory Committee. |
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Feminist Jenny Abramsky,
Radio 5 supremo, also works with the British Journalism
Review |
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Who controls
Hollywood?
Since the vast majority of the films shown on
British cinema and TV screens are imported from America, it is
impossible to comment on the power of the mass media to mould and direct
public opinion in Britain without looking at the ownership of the US
movie industry, centred in Hollywood.
In his acclaimed book, An Empire of Their
Own, How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Neal Gabler pointed to
the Jewish origins of Hollywood, under movie pioneers such as Louis
B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg. "Of 85 names engaged in
production", a 1936 survey noted, "53 are Jews. And the Jewish advantage
holds in prestige as well as numbers." Little has changed since then; in
a recent Premiere magazine "Special Power Issue" - ranking the 100 most
powerful people in the "Industry" - the top 12 were Jewish. No black or
British industry executives were even ranked. Every so often, a Gentile
journalist or actor comments on this, and is invariably forced to make a
grovelling apology within a matter of hours.
Marlon Brando, for example, hit the headlines in
April 1996, when he denounced the Jewish-run movie establishment for
exploiting racial stereotypes, telling the Lany King Show that:
"We have seen the nigger, we have seen the
greaseball, we have seen the chink, the slit-eyed dangerous Jap. ...
but we never saw the kike because they know perfectly well that's
where you draw the wagons around... Hollywood is run by Jews, owned by
Jews and they should have greater sensitivity."
Disney
The largest media conglomerate is the Walt
Disney Company, whose Chairman and CEO is Michael Eisner. The
Disney empire, headed by a man described by one media analyst as "a
control freak", includes several television production companies (Walt
Disney Television, Touchstone Television and Buena Vista Television),
its own cable network, and two video production companies.
As for feature films, the Walt Disney Picture
Group, headed by Joe Roth, includes Touchstone Pictures,
Hollywood Pictures and Caravan Pictures. Disney also owns Miramax Films,
run by the Weinstein brothers.
When the Disney Company was run by the Gentile
Disney family prior to its takeover by Eisner in 1984, it
epitomised wholesome family entertainment. While it still holds the
rights to various classic children' s favourites, under Eisner -
whose personal fortune is estimated at $ 405 million - the company has
expanded into the production of graphic sex and gratuitous violence. And
Disney' s recent productions aimed at children have developed an
extremely unhealthy "politically correct" message. It is even rumoured
that Eisner et al are planning to make a new production with a
"Holocaust"- theme!
On the back of its film production, Disney has
built a worldwide entertainment empire, owning Disneyland, Disney World,
Epcot Center, Tokyo Disneyland and Euro Disney. The company sells well
over a billion dollars worth of consumer products every year,
principally books, toys and clothing. Some of the profits from this
enormous operation funded Eisner's 1995 takeover of Capital
Cities/ABC Inc., to create a media conglomerate with annual sales of $
16.5 billion. Capital Cities/ABC not only controls 235 TV stations in
the United States, but also has extensive interests in European TV
companies.
TimesWarner
Probably even more influential than Disney is
the international media leviathan Times Warner, Inc. Chairman of the
Board and CEO is Gerald Levin. Warner Music is by far the world's
largest record company, with 50 labels, the biggest of which is Warner
Brothers Records, headed by Danny Goldberg. Another Jew,
Stuart Hersch, is the President of the company's video production
operation, Warnervision.
In addition to music and huge interests in US
cable TV, Time Warner is heavily involved in the production of feature
films through Warner Brothers Studio. Its publishing division, dominated
by Editor-in-Chief Norman Pearlstine, is the largest magazine
publisher in the world.
Time Warner and Disney were among the most
generous backers of Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, a victory
which, according to the Jewish Chronicle of 1st November, 1996,
took "Jewish influence in Washington" to "historic hights".
Time Warner's Gerald Levin gained an
enormous amount of extra power with his takeover of Turner Broadcasting
System in 1996. Founded by self-made media tycoon Ted Turner, TBS
included the highly influential TV news network CNN, an operation which
for a few years provided a potential alternative to the otherwise
completely Jewish-controlled American news network. Although Turner is a
Gentile, his career - and the reaction of the rival media bosses to it -
provide an important insight into the monopolistic attitude of the
people who have developed a stranglehold on the electronic news and
entertainment industry.
Having made a fortune in advertising and cable
TV, in 1985 Turner made a bid to buy CBS - an acquisition which would
have given him control of an enormous slice of the influential news
broadcasting industry. Although Turner had employed a number of Jews in
key executive positions in CNN and had never taken a public position
contrary to Jewish interests, he is a man with a large ego and a strong
personality, and was regarded by CBS Chairman William Paley and his
fellow executives as uncontrollable: a loose cannon who might at some
stage in the future give them problems. Furthermore, newsman Daniel
Schorr, who had worked for Turner, publicly charged that his former
boss held a personal dislike for Jews.
To block Turner's bid, CBS executives invited
billionaire theatre, hotel, insurance and cigarette magnate Laurence
Tisch to launch a "friendly" takeover of the company. This went
ahead, with Tisch becoming the Chairman and CEO of CBS, removing
any threat of non-Jewish influence there.
Turner now appears to have adopted the line "if
you can't beat 'em, join 'em." His sale of CNN to Time Warner means that
the only rival to the network news operations is now also in the hands
of the usual people.
Viacom
Viacom, Inc, headed and 76 per cent owned by
Sumner Redstone (born Murray Rothstein) is the third largest
megamedia corporation in the US, with revenues of over $ 10 billion a
year. As well as owning a major network of TV and radio stations, Viacom
produces and distributes TV programmes, while feature films are handled
by its subsidiary Paramount Pictures, headed by Sherry Lansing.
Viacom is also involved in satellite broadcasting, theme parks and video
games, and its 4,000-store Blockbuster video rental chain is now
spreading rapidly through Britain.
MCA-Universal
Another major Hollywood power is MCA-Universal
Pictures. For a while this was owned by the Japanese electronics firm
Matsushita. Even though MCA's former owner Lew Wasserman and his
sidekick Sidney Sheinberg were kept on as the top executives,
there was clearly concern in certain circles at the risk involved in not
having such a studio under complete control. This unsatisfactory
situation was, however, resolved early in 1996 when Canadian-based
alcohol giant Seagram brought a controlling interest in MCA.
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empire was founded by Samuel Bronfman, who made his fortune
shipping liquor to bootleggers during Prohibition. The Chief
Executive today is his grandson, president of the World Jewish
Congress, Edgar Bronfman Jr. Seagram has long been a
financial and organisational mainstay of the massively powerful
Zionist lobby in North America, and its boss is wellknown for his
belief in the financial and opinion-forming power of "multi-media"
and related elements of the information superhighway. He is a
close friend of Hollywood deal-broker Michael Ovitz.
According to the Daily Telegraph of 6th January, 1997,
Ovitz is often described as "Hollywood's most powerful man."
On his recent resignation as president of Walt Disney, he received
a severance package of $ 69.5 million. |
Michael Ovitz:
"The most powerful man in Hollywood" |
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Sony - Columbia
Another Japanese company which put some noses
out of joint by buying a chunk of Hollywood was Sony, which took over
Victor Kaufman's Columbia Pictures in 1989 for $ 3.4 billion and $
1.2 billion in assumed debt. It is clear that the Japanese were only
interested in the profits from successful movies and were quite happy to
leave the everyday running to the "experts", but this did not stop a
concerted media campaign against the perils of allowing the American
entertainment industry to fall into the hands of outsiders! Headlines
about "Pearl Harbor - the Sequel" were followed by the filming of
Rising Sun, the thriller dealing with the relentless ambition of
Japan and its threat to the US. Directed by Philip Kaufman - who
managed to work into the script a scene of a Japanese playboy using a
naked American girl as a dining table - this was the kind of crude
incitement to racial hatred usually reserved for the wicked Germans.
Under attack from outside, Sony were also stung
by the reckless and inexplicably incompetent management of Peter
Guber, who had been recommended to run the show by Walter
Yetkinoff, the Chairman of CBS Records. After a series of shattering
flops, Sony were rumoured to be thinking of selling up. Discussing the
fiasco, David Puttnam, who ran Columbia during the mid-eighties,
gave an interesting insight into the mentality of their rivals: "The
Japanese are probably congenitally incapable of managing a movie studio.
That's not to insult them, it's simply a result of the very ordered way
their minds work. I think the Germans are likely to also prove incapable
of managing a movie studio."
Puttnam went on to suggest that since all
Sony needed was access to Columbia's back catalogue and future
best-sellers, the situation could be resolved by a clever lawyer who
could "unbundle" the company: "The unbundling will involve Sony hanging
on to the core rights they require, with future production and
investment taken over by someone else, someone probably more competent
or more naive."
In the meantime, things now seem to be pretty
much in order, with Alan Levine heading the Sony Pictures
Division, and the financial management of the Sony Corporation of
America having been placed in the hands first of Michael Schulhof,
and then of Sony's US Executive Vice President, Jeff Sagansky.
Lucy Fisher recently took over as acting Chairman of Columbia
TriStar itself, following the removal of Mark Canton after a
further series of box-office flops.
Dreamworks and
others
Most of the smaller film production companies
are also controlled by Jews. For example, New World Entertainment,
described as "the premier independent TV program producer in the United
States," is owned by Ronald Perelman, and chaired by Brandon
Tartikoff (formerly the Head of Entertainment Programming at NBC).
Dreamworks SKG was formed in 1994 by recording
industry mogul David Geffen (who lists his interests as "AIDS,
Israel and other causes"), former Disney Pictures Chairman Jeffrey
Katzenberg, and film director Steven Spielberg. With the
connections and wealth of these three, Dreamworks looks set to become a
major force in the entertainment world.
A similar picture of massively disproportionate
Jewish influence pertains throughout the US television, radio and
newspaper industries, but these fall outside the scope of this study. An
exception to this has to be the career of Aaron Spelling, since
so many of his television programmes are shown on British TV - indeed
all around the world. The Guinness Book of Records credits
Spelling with having produced more hours of programming than anyone
else on earth. The recipe for this remarkable success was described in
the Sunday Telegraph magazine of 29th Septeber 1996 as "lush
tales of sex, greed and venality, and thickened with handpicked casts of
raffish swindlers and siliconeboosted ubervixens." Spelling is
responsible for such cultural masterpieces as Charlie 's Angels,
Fantasy Island, Beverly Hills 90210 and Dynasty.
In answer to criticism that such programmes are
lightweight pap, Spelling draws attention to productions such as
And The Band Played On, which dealt with AIDS and explains the
rationale behind his "softly-softly" approach to social issues:
"Put out a documentary about teenage drug
use and kids don't watch it. But if you introduce the same subject in
one of our programmes they will be talking about it the next day at
school. We can make these topics relevant and approachable, and that
is one of the things we are simply never given credit for."
This is certainly true, but - with many of the
subjects - what is deserved is not credit.
Spelling is known both as a compulsive
liar and a recluse. His only party at his $ 45 million home in
California was thrown in honour of the Prince of Wales as a personal
favour for Spelling's old friend Lew Wasserman, head of
the giant MCA entertainment combine.
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