Due for a repost. This should be read in conjunction with the article below, unfortunately now paywalled.
Anticipating complaints of antisemitism, when the article below was first published, I was bombarded by attacks calling me a Jew, a Jew-lover, an apologist and propagandist for Jews, etc.
30 years ago, 59% of the top positions in the US media were held by Jews. Certainly you could say that Jews controlled the US media at that time. However, now it is down to 30%, so Jewish media power has crashed in the US over the past 30 years.
We can now say that Jews do not control the US media. However, they still have massive media power in this country far outside of their numbers. This is the basic statement of this piece. How on Earth that is antisemitic is beyond me.
The decline in Jewish media power is a good thing. Why on Earth should a tiny ethnic group with only 2.5% of the US population have such extreme power in our precious media? That certainly seems out of line, and at the very le…
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