This is a list of the evidence I used in my article: Do Jews Control the Media? It’s Complicated piece.
Comcast/NBC: Jewish owned, 1 Jew, 1 Gentile
Chairman & CEO: Brian L. Roberts, Jewish
President: Michael J. Cavanagh
NBCUniversal, includes MSNBC: 1 Jew, 1 Gentile
President, Comcast: Mike Cavanagh
Vice Chairman: Bonnie Hammer, Jewish
Skydance Media: 3 Jews, 2 Gentiles. A classic old-style Jewish media corporation.
Chairman and CEO: David Ellison, Gentile (half-Jewish but that doesn’t count)
CCO: Dana Goldberg, Jewish
EVP of Feature Productions: Don Granger
President and COO: Jesse Sisgold, Jewish
CFO: Larry Wasserman, Jewish
CBS itself: 4 Gentiles, 1 Jew
President and CEO, CBS Entertainment Group: George Cheeks
President, CBS Entertainment: Amy Reisenbach, Jewish
President and CEO, CBS Sports: David Berson
President, CBS News: Ingrid Ciprián-Matthews
President and CEO, CBS News and Stations: Wendy McMahon
Viacom 2 Jews, 1 Gentile, Jewish controlled
Chairman and CEO: Sumner Redstone
Co-president and co-COO: Tom Freston
Co-president and co-COO: Les Moonves
Fox: 3 Gentiles
Chairman emeritus: Rupert Murdoch
Chairman and CEO: Lachlan Murdoch
COO: John P. Nallen
Fox Broadcasting Company: 3 Gentiles, 1 Jew
President and CEO, Fox Entertainment: Rob Wade
President, Fox Broadcasting Company Entertainment: Michael Thorn
New York Times: Jewish owned, 2 Jews, 2 Gentiles
Publisher: A. G. Sulzberger, Jewish
Editor-in-chief: Joseph Kahn, Jewish
Managing editor: Marc Lacey
Managing editor: Carolyn Ryan
Los Angeles Times: 1 Gentile
President: Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong
Chicago Tribune: 5 Gentiles
Editor-in-chief: Mitch Pugh
General manager: Par Ridder
Opinion editor: Chris Jones
Sports editor: Amanda Kaschube
Photo editor: Todd Panagopoulos
Washington Post: 3 Gentiles
Owner: Jeff Bezos
Publisher: William Lewis
Editor-in-chief: Matt Murray
Boston Globe: 3 Gentiles
Publisher: John W. Henry
Editor: Nancy Barnes
Opinion editor: James Dao
San Fransisco Chronicle: 1 Gentile
Publisher: Bill Nagel
Wall Street Journal: 5 Gentiles
Publisher: Almar Latour
Editor-in-chief: Emma Tucker
Deputy editor: Charles Forelle
Managing editor: Liz Harris
Opinion editor: Paul A. Gigot
Time Magazine: Jewish owned since 2018
Owner: Marc Benioff: Jewish (before that owned by the Gentile Meredith Corporation)
Editor-in-chief: Sam Jacobs
Newsweek: 2 Gentiles
President and CEO: Dev Pragad
Editor-in-chief: Nancy Cooper
US News and World Report: Jewish owned, 2 Jews, 1 Gentile (classic old style Jewish media corporation)
Owner: Mortimer Zuckerman, Jewish
CEO: Eric Gertler, Jewish
President: Bill Holiber
Editorial Director: Dafna Linzner, Jewish
Bloomberg L.P.: 1 Jew, 3 Gentiles
Owner: Michael Bloomberg, Jewish,
Key people: 3 Gentiles
Chair: Mark Carney
CEO: Vladimir Kliatchko
President: Jean-Paul Zammitt
USA Today: 1 Gentile
Publisher and President: Maribel Perez Wadsworth
Meredith Corporation: 2 Gentiles
Executive Chairman: Steve Lacy
President and CEO: Tom Harty
Gray Television: 2 Gentiles
Executive chairman, CEO: Hilton H Howell, Jr.
President, Co-CEO: Pat LaPlatney
Disney: 1 Jew, 1 Gentile (mostly just Hollywood and movies)
Chairman: Mark Parker
CEO: Bob Iger, Jewish
ABC: 2 Gentiles
Dana Walden
Craig Erwich
Warner Brothers Discovery: 1 Jew, 1 Gentile
Chairman: Samuel DiPiazza
President and CEO: David Zaslav, Jewish
CNN itself: 7 Gentiles (one woman is married to a Jew)
Chairman and CEO: Sir Mark Thompson
COO: David Leavy
EVP of Programming, CNN-US: Michael Bass
EVP/CFO: Brad Ferrer
EVP: Amy Entelis
EVP, CNN-US and HLN: Ken Jautz
EVP/Chief Digital Officer: Andrew Morse
IAC: very Jewish, but not a news corporation
Associated Press: 1 Jew, 1 Gentile, Jewish controlled
Chairman: Steven R. Swartz, Jewish
President and Chief Executive Officer: Daisy Veerasingham
Hearst Corporation: 1 Jew, 2 Gentiles
Chairman: William Randolph Hearst III
Executive Vice Chairman: Frank A. Bennack Jr.
President and CEO: Steve Swartz, Jewish
Please feel free to check my work and my math for accuracy. In a few cases where I could not determine the ethnicity of the person, I defaulted to Gentile because after all, that is the majority and the default.
Finally tally of top US media positions: 30% Jewish, 70% Gentile
A critic sharply disagreed with my conclusion because one of his shibboleths if not his raison d’etre is that Jews control the US media.
He pointed out four of the largest media corporations where I had listed the top executives as one Jew and one Gentile. He said that in all four cases, it was the Jew who held all or most of the power.
He was correct in the case of the Comcast, NBC, which is indeed owned by the Jewish Roberts family. I’ll give him that one.
In another case, the Jews who controlled the corporation, the Redstone family of whom Shari Redstone was head of the business, had left as the company, Paramount Global, was sold to another corporation, Skydance Media.
She was replaced by a half-Jew, but those count as Gentiles. However the new firm is still quite Jewish with three Jews, one half Jew, and only one Gentile in the top positions.
In order to be Jewish, in general you must either have a Jewish mother, convert to Judaism, or be raised Jewish. If you have a Jewish father only, a lot of people consider you a half-Jew.
Though Jews no longer control this corporation, it is still very top-heavy with Jews, and the half-Jew has a very Zionist father, Larry Ellison, and may well identify as Jewish as quite a few half-Jews do.
Half-Jews (Mischlings) were often not considered Jewish by the Nazis, cannot make aliyah to Israel, and still often need to convert to become full Jews. But Reform Judaism accepts them as Jews, though this strikes me as a slippery slope.
Where the chairman was Jewish, my critic said the chairman controlled the corporation, and where the CEO was Jewish, he said the CEO controlled the corporation. This doesn’t make sense. The chairman is always above the CEO in every case. So the critic is trying to have their cake and eat it too.
In his book, Jewish Power: Inside The American Jewish Establishment written in 1996, J. J. Goldberg said that 59% of the top media positions in the US were held by Jews.
That’s quite a figure and based on that, you could indeed say that Jews controlled the US media at that time and probably for decades before then too.
As the data above makes clear though, this control seems to be falling by the wayside. Now Jews only have 30% of the top media positions, a reduction in their control by 49% over a 28 year period. In other words, it’s been halved. Based on this, it can no longer be said that Jews “control” the US media.
But they do have tremendously outsized power. They are only 2.5% of the population and they have 28% of the top media jobs, so they are represented at 11 times their population. That alone may give them “effective control” over the media.
Listen. Suppose you have fifteen people on a Board of Directors, and six of them are evangelical Christians, with nine positions held by the others. I don’t think you’re going to hear much anti-Christian sentiment at the meetings:
Evangelical Christian board member: So what do you all think of Christians?
Other board member: Oh, I think they’re just fine! Anyway, how about those Dodgers?
Nevertheless, there has definitely been a significant reduction in Jewish media control and power in the US, which I think can only be a good thing.
Aren’t we a democracy? If we are, why does 2.5% of the population get 59% of the top media jobs or even 27% for that matter? Doesn’t sound very democratic to me.
What does it matter if they are Koreans or Punjabis or Germans or Swedes or Lebanese? No little ethnic group should have that much outsized power over something as important as the US media.
What is odd though is that even though the vast majority of US top media positions are filled by Gentiles, and many outlets have only Gentiles in the top positions, the US media across the board is nevertheless significantly but not profoundly pro-Israel.
In order to put this jigsaw puzzle together, we have to explain why all of these Gentiles are so pro-Israel. I investigated the possible reasons for that in my prior piece.
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You know the Jews are going to beat the living shit out of me for writing this. Of course they'll say it's antisemitic. But read the article. What ON EARTH is antisemitic about this article for God's sake.
The Jew and their lousy allies call me antisemite. Fine. Knock yourselves out. Yell it til the cows come home, crybullies.
But the REAL ANTISEMITES, like the people in the comments section at Unz all hate me and call me Jew, sabbos goy, Jew-lover, pro-Jewish, etc. The comments are full of people imploring Unz to not run this shitty Jew-lover, Jew, whatever on the site!
I figure if the Jews and their Sancho Panzas are calling me antisemite and the real antisemites are calling me Jew, Jew lover, etc., I figure I'm probably doing all right. That's about where a good, fair-minded cultural critic should be! I'd like to be that about most groups, frankly!
I don't really want to be complimented by those antisemitic fucks over at Unz. I don't mind a bit of antisemitism. To me low level antisemitism is just normal, even among a lot of Jews! But once you get the point of what I call obsessive and conspiratorial (Nazi) antisemitism, you're not only engaging in dangerous speech but you've also gone insane. That level of antisemitism almost looks like a mental disorder to me.
The issue of media control is multifaceted. One has to consider direct ownership as you have done (very good job by the way), and indirect control. Jewish control may be a valid concern, but fear of offending Jewish Zionist influence is probably a more relevant issue. I am of course referring to the concern big MSM media has about offending advertisers - the life blood of the MSM. Even those who would be highly critical of Israeli government policy for legitimate moral reasons might shy away for fear of losing advertisers. I think this issue is more important that who owns what.
As for Jews controlling Hollywood - Good! Most born again Christian films suck lol. I'm not a big fan of Bollywood either for what it's worth.