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Media control and censorship! |
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Media control and censorship! |
The mind-bending power of the masters of the media
The media-power in Great Britain and elsewhere
The Mind-Benders is an analysis of the media power in Great Britain. Written in 1997, it details how (and why) the information we receive via the media is censored and distorted. If we are to avoid insidious totalitarianism we must be aware of the enormous control over every form of mass media the Jews possess and – in any democratic society under such powerful influences – who are the real manipulators of political power.
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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 even this phrase under-estimates their power. It is in truth no exaggeration 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.
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 21 January, 1992. Headlined "The TV Clique," its sub-heading told readers that:
The five referred to are David Elstein, Michael Grade, Charles Saatchi, Alan Yentob and Michael Green.
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 NGI'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 low-paid 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. While at Oxford, the young Murdoch concluded that "there is no ideological difference between communism and capitalism, except that the latter should be more controlled and centralised. The two are complimentary." When his father died he returned to Australia to take over the two newspapers and became known to locals as "Red Rupert." So strong was his reputation that when, in 1965, he paid over a quarter of a million pounds for a Sunday newspaper in Perth, it was suggested that the Soviet Union was channelling funds into his business operation. Over the next three years, however, as Murdoch plonked down millions to buy newspapers and radio and TV stations all over Australia, it became clear that that he had more generous backers than the habitually parsimonious Soviets. 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.
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 con-man 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 C5. 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 the 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 sensitivity 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 is a member of the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group and 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.
Mirror Group
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.
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.
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, Cosmopolitan to Vanity Fair. Non-native journalists who have dispensed their wisdom to us lowly Gentiles over the years include Bernard Levin, John Pilger, Max Hastings, John Akass, Marjorie Proops, Anna Raeburn and Claire Rayner. The world-syndicated agony columnists Ann Landers and Abigail van Buren ("Dear Abby") were in fact two Jewish sisters, Esther and Pauline Friedman. PUBLISHING A detailed examination of the question of who controls the book publishing houses is another area beyond the scope of this short 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 the Financial Times Group and, in partnership with N. M. Rothschild merchant bank, the 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 and 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 Madamoiselle.
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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:
