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"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. Theyelect politicians by their own choice, and if and when those politiciansfail to act according to their wishes they can be dismissed by the voteof the people. The pluralism of different political parties provides thepeople with "alternatives"; if one loses their confidence, theycan support another. Thus is realised the democratic principle of: governmentof 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 modernstate things are not quite like that. How do "the people" acquirethe information and knowledge necessary for them to use their votes otherthan by blind guesswork? They cannot possibly witness everything that ishappening 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 areable to watch and assess their performance of their duties. The vast majorityare 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 whatthey knew.

"The people" are doctors, lawyers, engineers, clerks, shopkeepers,factory workers, farmworkers, small tradesmen, nurses, secretaries, schoolteachersand a thousand or more other things. They know, or ought to know, somethingabout the occupations in which they are engaged. But only the minutest numbercan be expected to know the business of politics - one of the most complexof subjects, with its vast range of issues and the many points of view thatwill be brought to bear on each of these issues. To know what the issuesare, and to examine and evaluate these points of view, the people need tohave these issues presented to them and the points of view expounded ina 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 othermedia: books; magazines; the Internet. The list is growing as informationtechnology advances.

But there is a problem here. "The people" cannot own, controland regulate the media. That can only be done by a small minority - a merefraction of the population, in fact much fewer than one per cent. And itis this minority which is able to determine which facts the people willbe allowed to know about, which events will be reported to them, which pointsof view they will be able to examine and evaluate, which political partiesit 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 thisminority which determines the climate of "public opinion" in whichpoliticians have to operate, the "public opinion" to which theyhave to defer and which they dare not offend if they are to get electedand stay elected.

Even when the mass media consisted mainly of newspapers, and only a smallminority read those newspapers, this power was considerable. Today, whenit embraces mass-circulation newspapers and television, it is colossal beyondimagination.

And we must not forget another fact about the media. Their politicalinfluence extends far beyond newspaper reports and articles, and televisionprogrammes, of a direct political nature - connected, that is, with currentaffairs that bear upon politics. In a much more subtle way, they can influencepeople's thought patterns by other means: newspaper stories, pages dealingwith entertainment and popular culture, movies, TV "soaps", "educational"programmes: all these types of fare help form human values, concepts ofgood and evil, right and wrong, sense and nonsense and what is "fashionable"and "unfashionable". These human value systems, in turn, shapepeople's attitude to political issues, influence how they vote and thereforedetermine who holds political power.

Yet for some strange reason there is very little public discussion inBritain today, as an example, of who actually exercises media control. Thepeople are encouraged to get tremendously excited about the outcome of ageneral election, even of local government elections, yet these contestsprobably have far less a bearing on the question of who wields power overus than the much more crucial one of who regulates "public opinion"and therefore determines the agenda both for the contesting of electionsand for what is done in government by whoever wins.

Any study of what is happening on the national scene must therefore todayinclude a study of the workings of the mass media: who the people are whoown, control and operate those media, and to what purposes their immensepower is being put.

Discussion programmes on TV and radio dealing with current affairs andtopical public issues are presented so as to convey the impression thatthey are conducted in accordance with the letter and spirit of "democracy",with various viewpoints given a hearing. However, where the discussion threatensto touch upon issues considered "sensitive" to the judaized establishmentwhich controls TV and radio, it is carefully stage-managed so that "dangerous"viewpoints are excluded. This is particularly noticeable where discussionconcerns matters of the Jewish State of Israel and its not so very gloriousaspects, when relating to doubts concerning the alleged mass-slaughter ofJews during WW II and when some one tries to discuss the power wielded bythe Jewish minority.

One TV programme on British TV a short time ago was devoted to the subjectof "anti-semitism", which was presented as being on the increasethroughout Europe, including Britain. Various spokesmen, some Jewish andsome non-Jewish, appeared on the programme to give their views. After theprogramme had proceded a little while, it became quite clear that the onlydifferences between the participants lay in their attitudes as to how "anti-semitism"should be treated. Some maintained that it should be rigorously suppressedby the introduction of tighter laws against it; others said that this practicewould play into the hands of the "anti-semites" by making themmartyrs 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 discussionpanel 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 offeringan explanation of the viewpoint of the so-called "antisemites".Of course, "anti-semitism" itself is a misleading term deliberatelyadopted by our media-controllers so as to suggest that those thus labelledwant to ill-treat Jews, even kill them, for no reason than that they areJews, whereas the vast majority of people described as "anti-semites"simply oppose what they see as excessive Jewish power. Whether or not theyare 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 statetheir 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 Jewishpower) are deliberately excluded, so that the "discussion" isnot really a discussion at all, merely an imitation of one.

But who is behind it all? Who are the people who determine what is watchedon television and printed in the newspapers? This is not so easy a studybecause a great many of the people concerned operate in the shadows. Andeven in the case of those whose names are known, what is known about theirbackgrounds and their connections? Very little.

For this reason, very few people in Britain are aware of the huge influenceover the mass media exercised by a certain ethnic minority, namely the Jews.

Straightaway, we can expect that mention of this minority will put manyreaders on the defensive. Is this "anti-semitism"?, some willask. That, you see, is the first example of the hypnotic effect of mediapower. The mass media in Britain today have managed to implant into manypeople's minds the idea that it is "anti-semitic" even to acknowledgethat members of the Jewish community play a large part in controlling ournews 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 textby the very mention of the word "Jews", there is provided thefirst 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. Whatdeductions people make from those facts is their decision. Our intentionis that they should be roused from their former ignorance and apathy andpersuaded to join our political struggle to achieve, through peaceable andlegal means a more just, non-racist society. A society not dominated bya 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'smass 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 concerncan be properly examined unlessall the facts pertaining it are known and are faced - fairly and squarely,with nothing swept under the carpet for fear that some noisy element mayobject.

Some people may accept the findings of this study as authentic and accuratebut then say: "So what?" Isn't it quite common for certain groupsto be found in profusion in certain occupations whether for reasons of naturaltalent and aptitude, accidents of history, or whatever? Are there not alot of Irish building workers and writers, Scottish doctors and engineers,Welsh singers, Black sportsmen, French and Italian restauranteurs and Indianand Pakistani textile merchants? Given that Jews are to be found in largenumbers in the mass media, is this to be regarded as particularly sinisteror dangerous? In other words, what's the big deal?"

We hope that we have answered these questions in the foregoing part ofthis introduction. None of the other occupational fields mentioned haveanything like the scope for the wielding of real power - political power,power over who governs us and to what purpose power to shape our societyand its values, to determine our destiny and future.

We cannot therefore say of Jews in the media as some might say of othergroups 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 inrespect of control of an institution with such massive power as the mediaplaces that institution in a special category of its own, which justifiesa very high degree of concern over the matter.

Would we, for instance, feel happy and secure in the knowledge (shouldsuch be the case) that a particular interest-group exercised control overour armed forces? We might wonder, in that case, where the loyalty of sucha group would lie in the event of a war.

And if we bear in mind that power over the mass media is today as potentin the possibilities it offers as command of a hundred armoured divisionson the battlefield, that mass media power should be a matter of tremendousconcern, and we would be foolish to the point of insanity to dismiss asof little importance a situation in which it lays in the hands of peoplewho themselves proclaim to be "Jewish" in the first hand and whothemselves openly proclaim loyality to the Jewish state of Israel in thefirst hand.

And this is not all. As has been said, there is today a very broad consensusview, transcending parties and classes, that much of the influence of themass media is malignant and socially destructive in its effects.

We simply take the question further: if so many believe the influenceof the media to be malignant and destructive, we should be examining thenature of the media - not the least important question in which examinationis: Who controls the media?

In a way, the study serves a purpose that is supposed to be served bythe mass media in any democracy: The purpose of free and unfettered enquiryand of absolutely free expression of facts and opinion. Unfortunately, thereis neither free enquiry nor free expression of either facts or opinion inthe mass media in Britain today - and least of all on the subject of thisstudy. 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 informationindustry? Just when did you last see a programme on TV dealing with thesame topic? The answer to this question proves our point.

One phrase beloved of those who exercise influence in the media is "investigativejournalism". The "investigative journalist" is depicted asthe crusading hero whose quest for the truth and whose dedication to thepublic interest leads him or her to take up the cudgels against all theforces of would-be suppression and censorship - even when, as is sometimesthe case, this leads to a particularly loathsome form of intrusion intopeople's private lives. But one form of investigative journalism which themedia are most certainly not anxious to encourage is that which enquiresinto the identity of their own controllers and the underlying agenda towhich 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 takenup by the media and examined in the light of day. If there is any commentin the mass media on this study - which we think doubtful - it will thatof condemnation, of dismissal out of hand, vith liberal use of the term"anti-semitism". But it will not extend to any analysis of whatwe say or any attempt, by presentation of facts, to prove us wrong.

From this, dear reader, we leave you to draw your own conclusions.

As we have prepared the material for this study it has been brought hometo us that media influence and control in the modern world of communicationsis an immensely complex subject, in which the dangers of over-simplificationare always present. The mere presence of members of a certain group workingin a section of the media does not itself prove that that group has theultimate "say" in the section in question. In addition to this,there is the fact that "control" of an institution like the massmedia can operate in more than one way. Direct control through ownershipis a relatively simple thing to understand, but this understanding doesnot provide for indirect forms by which the media can be, if not literally"controlled", then at least massively influenced. In this studywe will be examining the power of particular lobbies to regulate the contentof the press, TV, books and other means of communication by various pressures,such as the picketing of studios and bookshops (in which the implicit threatof violence is always present) and, perhaps more potent still, the methodof advertising boycott (in which again the implicit threat of such an actioncan often suffice to achieve the lobby's objective without the threat necessarilyhaving to be put into practice).

Another factor must be borne in mind when the source of media controlis being assessed. The communists in the heyday of their power were knownto say: "Give us just a third ot the places on any committee and wewill guarantee to control that committee." This was simply a statementof the fact that a minority in any body, public or private, which knowsexactly what it wants and acts together as a co-ordinated group, bound bya single loyalty and a single objective can quite easily get its way overa larger, but uncoordinated, mass of people with no such bonds, acting individuallyand in pursuit of no definite or conscious objective. It is not our claimin this booklet that Jews necessarily outnumber non-Jews in all sectionsof the media (though in certain important ones this is indeed the case)but only that the former's solidarity and oneness of loyalty, interest andpurpose gives them an immense advantage over others in any bid for powerand 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 weakenthe national spirit and consiousness of the British people, Jews themselves,in their attitude to their Jewish state of Israel and to questions of Zionismgenerally, are to be found amongst the world's most militant nationalists!

There is one final consideration of which we ask you, the reader, totake account. Jewish power in the mass media is a phenomenon acknowledgedin political quarters widely different from our own and sometimes even byJews 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 originby setting their names in bold type. Not all of the names in question willseem obviously Jewish; it has been the habit of Jews over the centuriesto change their names, adopting those which best blend with the populationsof the countries in which they have settled. Where persons with non-Jewishnames are designated as Jewish, the reader can rest assured that extensiveresearch has established them.

There can be little doubt that television is the most powerful forcefor the presentation of the news and the formation of attitudes. Go intoany workplace, pub, school, shop, or other institution and the chances arethat 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 affectedthe way in which the viewers see the world.

By using such techniques, the controllers of the TV stations have enormouspower to shape popular opinion. And a glance through any TV guide will revealthat, 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 justwho are these people? Just who is responsible for the poison peddled by"our" television networks?

Head of BBC Comedy Entertainment is Jon Plowman. He is responsiblefor "alternative comedian" Ben Elton's Thin Blue Line,a person who likes being interviewed in th "respectable" JewishChronicle.

Jews in prominent positions in BBC regional TV include Rod Natkiel,Head of Network TV at BBC Midlands and East, and Roy Saatchi, Headof Local Programmes at BBC North.

The host of lower level functionaries who implement the wishes of themedia masters in such stations also includes a vastly disproportionate numberof Jews, such as Geoffrey Goodman, who broadcasts on BBC CurrentAffairs and LBC/IRN- BBC TV's legal correspondent Joshua Rosenberg. NaomiGoldman is not only a Producer on Newsnight, but is also a member ofthe Jewish Socialist Group. Another militant Zionist in BBC is writer andbroadcaster Lisa Jardine.

The next time you have the misfortune to see the disgusting pieces ofdecadence which so often pass as "plays" on Channel 4, you shoulddirect your complaint to the channel's Head of Drama, David Aukin,or the Senior Commissioning Editor for Drama, Peter Ansorge, althoughthe latter spoke out strongly in favour of the sympathetic depiction ofincest on the soap Brookside at peak family viewing time. Ansorgesaid that he expected to be attacked for the storyline and condemned the"right-wing lobbies" which express widespread public disquietabout the way in which all the soaps in British broadcasting - with theexception as we go to press of Coronation Street - have been turnedinto 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 NewsEditor since March 1996 has been Sara Nathan, supported by ElinarGoodman. While Jon Snow, the extremist liberal Channel Four newscasteris not Jewish, he has made his sympathies clear by joining Jewish journalistsin addressing a Jewish Chronicle sponsored meeting on ethics in journalism.

Channel 4's youth programme production company, Planet 24, has, accordingto the Jewish Chronicle "an uncanny knack of fronting itspopular Channel 4 programmes with blondish Jewish women." Theseinclude Dani Behr playing a leading role on The Word andSurf Polatoes and Gabi Roslin of the Big Breakfast andthe Gabi Roslin Show.

Among the many lesser players involved in the never-ending stream ofproductions from Channel 4 are Michael and Martin Myers, thedistributors who run the First Independent company; Stephanie Calman,who is the scriptwriter for the sitcom Dressing for Breakfast; theviciously 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'sDiverse Production company. These include Diverse Reports, TheHello Girls and Dual Balls, a "comedy" by Dan Zeff.

Clarke has now received funding from the BBC for a new talent projectand is currently scouring the UK's universities for new pundits who couldappear in a planned BBC 2 heavyweight discussion programme.

The Independent Television Commission is the regulatory body which overseasthe whole of the ITV network. Its Director is Jude Goffee and itssenior sponsorship and advertising officer is Eve Salomon. The NetworkDirector of ITV is Marcus Plantin, who was instrumental in appointingClaudia Rosencrantz as ITV ' s Controller of Entertainment.

The pivotal position in ITN's influential news coverage is held by RobertElias, Programme Editor of News at Ten, while the power to decidewhat gets airtime at LBC rests with its Controller of Programmes, CharlesGolding.

Carlton's head of sponsorship is David Prosser, who is the co-ordinatorof the ITV lobby pressing for the abolition of laws which effectively outlawsponsors which are closely related to the editorial content of programmes.Richard Simons is the company's Head of Features, while the ManagingDirector of Carlton Select, the former Selec cable TV channel recently boughtup by Carlton, is Janet Goldsmith. The political agenda of Carltonwas summed up by the company´s decision to send its documentary onone of Oskar Schindler's 'survivors' to 1,000 London secondary schools.The pro-Zionist bias of children's and youth programmes at Carlton is theresponsibility of this sector's Controller Michael Forte.

The latest acquisition in Carlton's drive for ever-greater influenceis Westcountry Television, one of the last privately owned ITV franchises.Another strong bidder for the company was David Asper's CanWest broadcastinggroup, so it seems the vendors, which included South West Water and BrittanyFerries, had a choice of "any new owner you like, as long as he's oneof us."

Carlton's power in "independent" television is rivalled onlyby the Granada Group, which is worth around £ 6.2 billion and ownstwo ITV franchises: Granada TV and London Weekend Television. It also hasa 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 on1st 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 bySacha Baron Cohen.

Granada was founded by Sidney and Cecil Bernstein. AlexanderBernstein was the long-standing Chairman until he went into semi-retirementin March 1996 while retaining his interest and influence. The newly createdGranada Media Group (GMG) is controlled by three men. The Chairman, Granada'sChief Executive, Charles Allen, is not thought to be a Jew, but his twocolleagues at the top most definitely are.

In October 1995 Granada launched British Independent Television Enterprises(BRITE), which involved the merger of the sales arms of Granada TV, LWTand Yorkshire Tyne Tees TV. The Managing Director of this sales giant isNadine Nohr.

One of Granada's leading functionaries is the scriptwriter and producerKay 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 extremelypro-Jewish and told the Jewish Chronicle of 5.4.96 that he viewsIsrael as his "spiritual home". Since this interview came afterextensive coverage of the brutal Israeli supression of the Palestinian Intifada,with soldiers dynamiting Arab homes if one member of the family is caughtthrowing stones, shooting dead unarmed schoolchildren and burying teenagersalive with bulldozers, this comment tells us a great deal about the mentalityof this sickening "liberal" and the chattering classes who regardhim as their arbiter of artistic good taste.

Pearson TV is another significant part of the ITV network, owning asit does Thames Television. Pearson TV Chairman Greg Dyke is a Gentile, buthe is another TV mogul who looks to Disney Chairman Michael Eisner asa role model. Pearson TV is partly-owned by Lazards Bank and has a long-termproduction relationship with the third largest "American" megamediagroup, Sumner Redstone's Viacom Inc.

In any case, the day-to-day running of Pearson Broadcasting is more thepreserve of its Managing Director, Tony Cohen, who has been tippedas a future successor to Dyke as Chairman. His fellow directors includeSir Paul Fox, a past controller of BBC 1 and Chairman of ITN from1986 to 1988, who is also a director of Satellite Information Services.With Scimitar Films Ltd.´s Chairman, Michael Winner, and JeremyIsaacs, Fox was part of the 1988 Committee which was formed tofight proposals included in the Obscene Publications Bill in response topublic concern over the ever-declining standards on display in the massmedia. Other directors at Thames include Harold Mourgue and SirClaus Moser, who is also a former Vice Chairman of N. M. Rothschildmerchant bank.

Pearson TV has a quarter-share in Channel Five and a 15 per cent stakein UK Gold, whose Chief Executive is Bruce Steinberg. The globalreach of the Pearson operation extends as far as TV India, in which thecompany has a joint share in partnership with its superficial rivals CarltonCommunications and the investment bank Schroders.

It is only fair to point out that the parent Pearson conglomerate isowned mainly by the aristocratic Cowdray family. Chairman Lord Blakenhamis seen in the City as having a board dominated by Old Etonians, althoughReuben Mark is not a member of that particular minority group. Sincetheir 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 itsTV division altogether, in which case it wouldn't require a crystal ballto predict the kind of people who would be favourites to take it over!

The winning syndicate for the licence for this new channel includes severalof the supposed "rivals" whose Jewish links have already beennoted. These include MAI, Pearson and the US-based Warburg Pincus. Theirsuccessful application promised "presenters whose faces, voices, agesand regional and ethnic backgrounds reflect the diversity of Britain in1996." We won't be able to say we weren't warned! Former BBC 1 SchedulerDavid Berg is now Controller of Planning and Organisation at C 5,while the Controller of news, current affairs and documentaries is TimGardam.

In addition to the Jewish presence in the rapidly expanding fields ofcable and satellite TV already notead, James Ackerman works as thenewly appointed Director of multichannel covetures. As well as his alreadynoted position as head of Britain's second biggest satellite channel UKGold, former MTV high-flier Bruce Steinberg is also Chief Executiveof the women's channel UK Living, with an audience fast approaching threemillion every week.

Julian Aston is Managing Director of Channel One, which at presentsupplies cable TV to around 300,000 homes in London. He is assisted by hisfriend Michael Rosenblum, who has been described by the JewishChronicle as "the American video journalism guru".

The General Manager of Flextech TV's The Children's Channel (TCC) cable/satelliteoperation is Franklin Getchell. TCC's Chief Executive is RichardWolfe and its Senior Series Producer is leading US teenshow producerMitchell Kriegman, whose work includes the programme Sesame Street.Flextech owns the satellite channel Bravo, whose General Manager YonniCohen moved to Polygram last year, with Broadcast magazine suggestingthat his temporarily vacant post would be filled by Getchell. Thenew Head of Programming at Bravo is Mark Deitch, formerly BBC 1'sEditor of Acquired Output. Flextech TV also owns the Family Channel andmanages TLC and the Discovery Channel .

Of all the new channels aimed at children and young people, the mostsubversive has to be MTV Europe. This is a subsidiary of Sumner Redstone'sViacom UK, as are VH-I; the Paramount Channel; the Sci-Fi Channel; the Blockbustervideo chain and, as we have already seen, Nickleodeon TV. Paramount PicturesUK is headed by Danton Rissner, while the Managing Director of theSci-Fi Channel is David Woodman. The President and Business Directorof MTV Europe is Peter Einstein, backed up by Senior Vice PresidentsGil Aronow and Boris Katz. Through his MTV empire, Redstoneand his Chief Operating Officer Mark Rosenthal offer Beavis andButthead as teenage role models and pump their narrow views and music-cladpropaganda into 210 million homes in 71 countries. MTV has been accuratelydescribed as the dominant cultural (sic!) influence on teenagers aroundthe world.

In September 1995 MTV Europe was fined a total of £ 60,000 fortwo programmes dealing with under-age sex which even the ITC described as"smutty". Einstein protested that he had not seen any differencein the levels of taste and decency in the eight years that the channel hadbeen on the air. Indeed!

Another satellite and cable channel aimed at youngsters is The Box-MusicTV, whose Programme Director is Liz Laskowski. The UK satellite WarnerChannel is the work of Jeffrey Schlesinger, President of Warner BrosInternational Television. Raymond Jaffe is the Director of Publicityand Promotion at Sky TV.

The satellite news services are also firmly in the usual hands. ReutersTV Executive Editor is David Feingold and its Managing Director isDavid Kogan (who also oversees London Radio), while head of its newsgatheringoperation at Sky News is Malcolm Switzer. Meanwhile David Feingoldis chief of the London bureau of Cable News International (CNN)-nowpart of Gerald Levin's Time Warner Corporation-and as such is answerableonly to the Managing Director of CNN International, Randy Freedman.

UKTV was one of the companies which submitted unsuccessful bids for Channel5. In spite of this rebuff its owner, Canadian Jewish media mogul DavidAsper is still very keen to increase his control within the Britishmedia. His stated aim is to see the UK move towards Canada and the US interms 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 WestGlobal Communications, which also has interests in Canada, Australia, NewZealand and Chile. While his father sits on the governing board of Jerusalem'sHebrew University, Asper describes himself as a "cultural ratherthan religious Jew".

Another big company seeking to extend its grip to this side of the Atlanticis Polygram Filmed Entertainment. Yoni Cohen was appointed Vice Presidentof Television and Broadcasting at PFI in July 1996 to oversee the launchof Polygram's new international TV network.

The single most powerful man in British radio is acting Manager of BBCNetwork Radio, Michael (John) Green. His permanent replacement istipped to be Jenny Abramsky, the former editor of The World atOne and Today, who is at present Controller not only of RadioFive 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 wasalso editor of Drama, Features and Youth Programmes on Radio 5. Accordingto the Jewish Chronicle, Miss Raphael admits to having a strongJewish identity.

The millions of listeners who are now resigned to hearing ludicrous outburstsof "political correctness" every time they tune in to a BBC radiostation should listen carefully to the names of producers and similar highlevelfunctionaries listed at the end of such offerings. It cannot be denied thata disproportionate number are Jews. These include senior BBC producers DanielSnowman and Suzanne Levy, who was, for example, responsible forRadio 4's hysterical "Holocaust" propaganda piece 20/20-a viewof the century.

46 per cent of Talk Radio UK is controlled by Peter Clark, ownerof Media Ventures International. Clark, who has strong links withthe Labour Party, was until recently acting Head of Talk Radio, whose othershareholders are Hambros Bank, Luxembourg-based media group CLT and CanWest boss David Asper, who owns 24.5 per cent of the company. Manyof this cheap, tacky and sleazy station's presenters are Jewish, includingNancy Roberts, Garry Jacobs, Jonny Gould, Janet Gershlick and VanessaFeltz. 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'sdrama production operation Carnival Films.

The strongly pro-Jewish Associated Newspapers group owns large chunksof the "independent" radio group GWR and Classic FM, where ithas installed John Spearman as Chief Executive. Noteworthy in independentradio 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 servicesfor 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 beingJewish in a cultural sense and love being with other Jewish women."

As is the case with TV and films, Jews are in prominent and powerfulpositions in the regulatory institutions of independent radio. Tony Stolleris Chief Executive of the Radio Authority, while Yvonne Kintoff isManaging Director of the Radio Advertising Clearing Centre.

While TV and radio dominate our perception of current affairs, the cinemaand 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 traditionallyfrowned upon behavioural or character defect - will help to persuade largenumbers 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 messagein a host of films or pop songs, it is accepted at a subliminal level bymany viewers.

As with the broadcasting media, the "British" film industryincludes a vastly disproportionate number of Jews, both among the majorproducers and in its regulatory bodies. The creator and head of the BritishFilm 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 StevenSpielberg and his mendacious propaganda film Schindler 's List. SirSidney is also the President of the Samuelson Group plc, which, accordingto 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 filmindustry . As such he has been widely criticised for the board' s ultra-liberaljudgements. In 1995, for example, only two of the 364 films considered bythe BBFC were cut to reduce sexual violence. Elected local councillors andmembers 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 veryinfluential as a Governor of the British Film Institute since 1979. Keepingan eye out for rising stars and potential dissidents in the next generationof 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 moviemoguls is Baron Joel Barnett, the former Labour Cabinet ministerwho has been the Chairman of British Screen Finance Ltd since 1980, as wellas having served as Vice Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors from 1986to 1993.

The Chief Executive of Crysalis Visual Entertainment is Michael Pilsworth.CVE' s portfolio of "independent" film producers includes RedRooster Film & TV, and Watchmaker Productions. Chrysalis is close toovertaking Thames TV as the top UK independent producer.

In addition to his other powerful positions noted earlier, David Puttnamis a Chrysalis director. He is also Chairman of the Enigma film company,which has close ties with Gerald Levin's Time Warner conglomorateand BSkyB. Puttnam is a close friend of Edgar Bronfman Jr. -owner of the massive MCA entertainment group and Universal Studios - andspent three years as Chairman and Chief Executive at Columbia Pictures.In addition to all this, Puttnam is Chairman of International TelevisionEnterprises Ltd. He produced the Labour Party's 1992 election broadcastand is a regular at Labour fundraising events, as well as being at the forefrontof Labour's thinking on the information superhighway.

Chairman of the Rank Organisation, with major worldwide interests inleisure and entertainment and UK assets including the Odeon cinema chain,Mecca Leisure, the Hard Rock Cafe chain and Pinewood Studios, is SirLeslie 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 powerfulZionists and backs a number of shadowy, but influential, organisations whichare constantly on the lookout for possible threats to Jewish identity andcohesion.

The London-based MCA Records is managed by Steve Wolfe and MCAMusic Entertainment International has Meir Malinsky as SeniorExecutive.

The same phenomenon may be seen at RCA Records, whose artists includethe muchhyped "supergroup" Take That. RCA's Managing Directoris Hugh Goldsmith; the company's Head of Artistic Development isDavid Joseph, and the International Director is Nancy Farbman.

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, whois to be hyped to the top of the charts and what messages they should putacross to the owners of their Japanese-made electrical goods - are madeby Jews. Paul Burger is the Chairman and Chief Executive of SonyEntertainment (UK), which includes the Sony record label. Burger,whose major artists include Michael Jackson, is also Chairman of "TheBrit Awards" which is produced by Michael Gerrie. Senior VicePresidents and Executives at Sony UK include Jonathan Sternberg, GerhardBlum and Sara Silver.

This is another one of the interlocked global media corporations withheavy Jewish involvement. Its Directors include Sir Graham Day andH. Einsmann. The Senior Vice President of EMI Music Worldwide isCharles Diamont and the Managing Director is Michelle Burger.Vice President of EMl's International Media Division is Jeremy Silver.

The London-based music subsidiary of the Time-Warner Corporation, thisoperation too has a Jewish Managing Director - R. Godfrey-Kess.

Media Productions was launched in 1993 as the first film and televisionfinancing 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 Margolisand David Altschuler, who is also Director of feature film productioncompany 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 circulationhas a very significant behind-the-scenes influence on the kind of filmswhich get made in the first place. The UK's largest privately-owned mediabuying 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 JamesPalumbo. His Managing Director is Mark Rodol. In the months beforethe 1997 general election, James Palumbo helped to organise the LabourParty's appeal to young people, and ran a well-financed campaign. He alsogave the unlimited free use of a chaffeur-driven silver Rover to Labour'smedia staff at Millbank Tower. It was promptly commandeered by PeterMandelson, the party's chief election planner and Tony Blair's eminencegrise, although the disco-dancing bachelor's "aide", BenjaminWegg-Prosser, maintained that "Peter is not the only personwho uses it".

James Palumbo - junkmusic, junk politics

M&G Records boss, Michael Levy. TonyBlair's chief fundraiser

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The power of the purse is nowhere more apparent than in the field ofadvertising, whose magnates not only decide what images are used to promoteparticular products and ideas, but also have a great deal of influence overwhere vast corporate advertising budgets are spent. Their ability to determinewhich channels, magazines and newspapers are used - or not used - for majoradvertising campaigns gives such individuals an immense amount of influenceover 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 HighStreet retail chains - another area dominated by Jews, but outside the scopeof this survey - has been used to persuade Gentile newspaper owners andeditors to toe the line. As far back as the 1930s, for example, the threatof a Jewish advertising boycott forced Lord Rothermere to stop articlesin support of Sir Oswald Mosley appearing in his Daily Mail. Morerecently, similar threats have been brought to bear against a medical magazinefor carrying articles critical of Israeli treatment of Palestinians, andagainst the Sunday Times, which was persuaded to break its contractwith historian David Irving to translate its Goebbels Diaries extracts.

And one shouldn´t forget that in Japan the popular Japanese magazineMarco Polo was forced to close down by an international advertisingboycott organised by Zionists, after carrying an article pointing out manyof the glaring flaws in the "Six Million Gassed Jews" propagandastory.

Tony Kaye got his first big break working with Saatchi &Saatchi and went on to win 13 "Pencils" (the ad world's equivalentof Oscars) in six years. His television adverts included British Rail'schess-playing rabbi and the penguin, the children dancing around LionelBart for Abbey National and the sado-masochistic and nightmarish imagesused in Dunlop commercials.

Although the printed word is no longer as powerful as it once was, andalthough the broadcasting media are now the most important factor in shapinggeneral popular attitudes, the owners, editors and journalists of nationalnewspapers still have immense power. In particular, it is the national newspaperswhich 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 noexagerration to say that whoever controls the press controls the politicaldirection of the nation.

The Jewish presence in the press is not as all-pervading as it is inthe broadcast media. But such is the cowardice of the vast majority of theintellectual prostitutes known as journalists, that it seems that OrganisedJewry is able to impose its line on the British press by rather more remotecontrol than in the case of television. Having said which, the number ofJews in key positions in the tangled web of newspaper ownership and productionis still out of all proportion to their numbers in the British populationas a whole.

The same can be said of publishing generally, with the additional factorthat many publishing houses are owned by Jewish-owned companies based inthe USA.

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 SelecTV and nearly half of Teletext.

Another Evening Standard reporter, Mark Honigsbaum, penneda remarkably indiscreet article for the paper's "London Life"feature on 21st January, 1992. Headlined "The TV Clique", itssub-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.

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. ItsChief 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 thedaughter of a wealthy Jewish family, Elisabeth Joy Greene. The familyfortune enabled Murdoch Senior to buy himself a knighthood, a radio stationand two Adelaide newspapers, as well as to educate his son at the fashionableGeelong private school and then to send him to Oxford.

When his father died and the young Murdoch returned to Australia to takeover the two newspapers. Over the next three years Murdoch plonked downmillions to buy newpapers and radio and TV stations all over Australia.By 1968 Murdoch's media empire was worth £ 46 million. His buyingspree continued throughout the 1970s, as he set up in Britain and then theUnited States. With his move into satellite TV and film studios, the lastfew years have seen Murdoch establish his influence on a truly global scale,with assets of £ 14.3 billion.

Nor is Murdoch shy of using this enormous power to further his, and hisbackers' own political agenda. As far back as 1972, after Australian LabourParty leader Whitlam had agreed to pursue a 100 per-cent pro-Israeli policyand to protect Murdoch's media monopoly, the power of that monopoly wasused to run a block-busting campaign which steamrollered Whitlam into power.When Whitlam promptly reneged on the deal, making overtures to the Arabsand refusing to grant mining leases to Oppenheimer, Murdoch's mediaturned on him as part of the successful campaign to have Whitlam removedfrom office and replaced by the fervently pro-Zionist Bob Hawke.

More recently, American media mogul Ted Turner was forced to apologiseto the Anti-Defamation League after likening his rival to the "lateFuehrer", alleging that, like Hitler, Murdoch uses the media outletsover which he has control to further his political agenda. Included on thatagenda 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 aroundthe "Dirty Digger" are held by Jews. These include Peter Chernin,who heads Murdoch's film studio and oversees his TV production, and DavidElstein, Head of Programming at BSkyB until his recent promotion tothe still more powerful post of Chief Executive of C 5. Chief Executiveof BSkyB is Sam Chisholm, while Raymond Jaffe is the Directorof Publicity and Promotion at Sky TV.

The Managing Director of The Sun and News of the World scandal sheetsis A. A. Fischer, while their Managing Editors are William Newmanand Stuart Kuttner respectively. Since becoming Editor of the Newsof the World, Wendy Henry has presided over a further degenerationof her paper, which has to be acknowledged as a remarkable achievement.Her boss Kuttner has spoken at meetings of the Board of Deputiesof British Jews on the question of sensitisity in the portrayal of Jewsand Israel in the media. The City Editor of the Times is Melvyn Marckus.

In October 1996 seventy Israeli tax inspectors raided the Jerusalem officesof Murdoch's News Datacom computer software subsidiary. The operation tookplace after the issue of a warrant alleging "tax transgressions, taxevasion and helping others to evade taxes between the years 1989 and 1996of an amount of about $ 150 million." Also raided were a factory inHaifa and New Datacom's lawyers, the eminent firm of Herzog, Fox and Neeman,whose founder was the former Israeli president, Chaim Herzog. Murdoch'scompany protested its innocence and blamed "defamatory" commentsin the Israeli media on "a continuing campaign against the companyby former employees who have been sued in the UK... for defrauding (us)of millions of dollars." Whatever the truth of this affair, it providesa tantalising glimpse of the behind-the-scenes connections of the Murdochempire.

The Chairman of The Telegraph plc is Conrad Black. Although supposedlya Canadian Gentile, Black, who is a member of the steering committee ofthe Bilderberg Group, is also a Director of Jerusalem Post PublicationsLtd. Furthermore, not only was his first wife Jewish, but so is his second,Barbara Amiel. She makes no attempt to hide her extreme pro-Zionistviews, using the columns of the Daily Telegraph to berate other sectionsof the media and politicians for what she believes is hostility to Israel.A particularly outstanding example of Mrs. Black's paranoia is anarticle which appeared in the Daily Telegraph of 3.10.96 under thehysterical heading: "This hatred of Israel is close to fascism."Most absurdly of all, she referred bitterly to "some Guardianand Independent commentators who, to put it bluntly, come close toa genteel fascism akin to the Thirties." Presumably she wasn't thinkingof the Independent 's main columnists Neal Ascherson or DavidAaronovitch. Kindly souls of a more rational disposition can only hopethat 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. Hollingeralso own the Spectator and no fewer than 230 major magazines andnewspapers in the United States.

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-centreSunday newspaper, between 1976 and 1981. Nowadays, however, Sir Stephenis only Chairman of the Jewish Chronicle Trust, and the Observeris in the more discreet hands of the Guardian Group. This holding companyhas directoral links with Hambros merchant bank, whose own Directors includeLord Hollick, whose United News and Media Group owns 30 regionalnewspapers in South East England alone, as well as periodicals such as Exchange& Mart. Hollick is reported as considering selling off his UPNSouth East operation in order to concentrate on his regional newspapersin Yorkshire and the North West.

Felix Dennis - one of the three defendants in the infamous 1971Oz obscenity trial - now publishes many magazines, including the world'smost successful CD-ROM magazine, Blender.

The "up-market" men's G.Q. has among its ContributingEditors James Bloom, Peter Koenig, David Cohen, Chris Peachment andChristopher 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 Empiremovie magazine to New Woman, Cosmopolilan to Vanity Fair.

A detailed examination of the question of who controls the book publishinghouses is another area beyond the scope of this slim study, but a briefoverview 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 onlythe Financial Times Group and, in partnership with N. M. Rothschildmerchant bank, the rabidly internationalist prophet of the global economyThe Economist magazine. Pearson also owns the major publishing companiesPenguin and Longman. The editor of the Financial Times, MichaelLambert, addressed a Jewish Care business group meeting in November1995. 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 SumnerRedstone's Viacom empire, which also owns US publishers Prentice Halland Pocket Books. Random House, the largest publisher in the USA and a majorplayer 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 dozenmajor magazines, including up-market titles such as Vogue, VanityFair and Mademoiselle.

Since the vast majority of the films shown on British cinema and TV screensare imported from America, it is impossible to comment on the power of themass media to mould and direct public opinion in Britain without lookingat the ownership of the US movie industry, centred in Hollywood.

In his acclaimed book, An Empire of Their Own, How the Jews InventedHollywood, 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, "53are Jews. And the Jewish advantage holds in prestige as well as numbers."Little has changed since then; in a recent Premiere magazine "SpecialPower Issue" - ranking the 100 most powerful people in the "Industry"- the top 12 were Jewish. No black or British industry executives were evenranked. Every so often, a Gentile journalist or actor comments on this,and is invariably forced to make a grovelling apology within a matter ofhours.

Marlon Brando, for example, hit the headlines in April 1996, when hedenounced 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."

 

 

 

 

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The largest media conglomerate is the Walt Disney Company, whose Chairmanand CEO is Michael Eisner. The Disney empire, headed by a man describedby one media analyst as "a control freak", includes several televisionproduction companies (Walt Disney Television, Touchstone Television andBuena Vista Television), its own cable network, and two video productioncompanies.

As for feature films, the Walt Disney Picture Group, headed by JoeRoth, 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 toits 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 gratuitousviolence. And Disney' s recent productions aimed at children have developedan extremely unhealthy "politically correct" message. It is evenrumoured that Eisner et al are planning to make a new productionwith a "Holocaust"- theme!

On the back of its film production, Disney has built a worldwide entertainmentempire, owning Disneyland, Disney World, Epcot Center, Tokyo Disneylandand Euro Disney. The company sells well over a billion dollars worth ofconsumer products every year, principally books, toys and clothing. Someof the profits from this enormous operation funded Eisner's 1995takeover of Capital Cities/ABC Inc., to create a media conglomerate withannual sales of $ 16.5 billion. Capital Cities/ABC not only controls 235TV stations in the United States, but also has extensive interests in EuropeanTV companies.

Probably even more influential than Disney is the international medialeviathan Times Warner, Inc. Chairman of the Board and CEO is GeraldLevin. Warner Music is by far the world's largest record company, with50 labels, the biggest of which is Warner Brothers Records, headed by DannyGoldberg. Another Jew, Stuart Hersch, is the Presidentof the company's video production operation, Warnervision.

In addition to music and huge interests in US cable TV, Time Warner isheavily involved in the production of feature films through Warner BrothersStudio. Its publishing division, dominated by Editor-in-Chief NormanPearlstine, is the largest magazine publisher in the world.

Time Warner and Disney were among the most generous backers of Bill Clinton's1996 re-election campaign, a victory which, according to the Jewish Chronicleof 1st November, 1996, took "Jewish influence in Washington" to"historic hights".

Time Warner's Gerald Levin gained an enormous amount of extrapower with his takeover of Turner Broadcasting System in 1996. Founded byself-made media tycoon Ted Turner, TBS included the highly influential TVnews network CNN, an operation which for a few years provided a potentialalternative to the otherwise completely Jewish-controlled American newsnetwork. Although Turner is a Gentile, his career - and the reaction ofthe rival media bosses to it - provide an important insight into the monopolisticattitude of the people who have developed a stranglehold on the electronicnews and entertainment industry.

Having made a fortune in advertising and cable TV, in 1985 Turner madea bid to buy CBS - an acquisition which would have given him control ofan enormous slice of the influential news broadcasting industry. AlthoughTurner had employed a number of Jews in key executive positions in CNN andhad never taken a public position contrary to Jewish interests, he is aman with a large ego and a strong personality, and was regarded by CBS ChairmanWilliam Paley and his fellow executives as uncontrollable: a loose cannonwho might at some stage in the future give them problems. Furthermore, newsmanDaniel Schorr, who had worked for Turner, publicly charged that hisformer 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 theChairman 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 rivalto the network news operations is now also in the hands of the usual people.

Viacom, Inc, headed and 76 per cent owned by Sumner Redstone (bornMurray Rothstein) is the third largest megamedia corporation in theUS, with revenues of over $ 10 billion a year. As well as owning a majornetwork of TV and radio stations, Viacom produces and distributes TV programmes,while feature films are handled by its subsidiary Paramount Pictures, headedby Sherry Lansing. Viacom is also involved in satellite broadcasting,theme parks and video games, and its 4,000-store Blockbuster video rentalchain is now spreading rapidly through Britain.

Another major Hollywood power is MCA-Universal Pictures. For a whilethis was owned by the Japanese electronics firm Matsushita. Even thoughMCA's former owner Lew Wasserman and his sidekick Sidney Sheinbergwere kept on as the top executives, there was clearly concern in certaincircles at the risk involved in not having such a studio under completecontrol. This unsatisfactory situation was, however, resolved early in 1996when Canadian-based alcohol giant Seagram brought a controlling interestin MCA.

Another Japanese company which put some noses out of joint by buyinga chunk of Hollywood was Sony, which took over Victor Kaufman's ColumbiaPictures in 1989 for $ 3.4 billion and $ 1.2 billion in assumed debt. Itis clear that the Japanese were only interested in the profits from successfulmovies 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 allowingthe American entertainment industry to fall into the hands of outsiders!Headlines about "Pearl Harbor - the Sequel" were followed by thefilming of Rising Sun, the thriller dealing with the relentless ambitionof Japan and its threat to the US. Directed by Philip Kaufman - whomanaged to work into the script a scene of a Japanese playboy using a nakedAmerican girl as a dining table - this was the kind of crude incitementto racial hatred usually reserved for the wicked Germans.

Under attack from outside, Sony were also stung by the reckless and inexplicablyincompetent management of Peter Guber, who had been recommended torun the show by Walter Yetkinoff, the Chairman of CBS Records. Aftera series of shattering flops, Sony were rumoured to be thinking of sellingup. Discussing the fiasco, David Puttnam, who ran Columbia duringthe mid-eighties, gave an interesting insight into the mentality of theirrivals: "The Japanese are probably congenitally incapable of managinga movie studio. That's not to insult them, it's simply a result of the veryordered way their minds work. I think the Germans are likely to also proveincapable of managing a movie studio."

Puttnam went on to suggest that since all Sony needed was accessto Columbia's back catalogue and future best-sellers, the situation couldbe resolved by a clever lawyer who could "unbundle" the company:"The unbundling will involve Sony hanging on to the core rights theyrequire, 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 AlanLevine heading the Sony Pictures Division, and the financial managementof the Sony Corporation of America having been placed in the hands firstof Michael Schulhof, and then of Sony's US Executive Vice President,Jeff Sagansky. Lucy Fisher recently took over as acting Chairmanof Columbia TriStar itself, following the removal of Mark Cantonafter a further series of box-office flops.

Most of the smaller film production companies are also controlled byJews. For example, New World Entertainment, described as "the premierindependent TV program producer in the United States," is owned byRonald Perelman, and chaired by Brandon Tartikoff (formerlythe Head of Entertainment Programming at NBC).

Dreamworks SKG was formed in 1994 by recording industry mogul DavidGeffen (who lists his interests as "AIDS, Israel and other causes"),former Disney Pictures Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, and film directorSteven 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 pertainsthroughout the US television, radio and newspaper industries, but thesefall outside the scope of this study. An exception to this has to be thecareer of Aaron Spelling, since so many of his television programmesare shown on British TV - indeed all around the world. The Guinness Bookof Records credits Spelling with having produced more hours ofprogramming than anyone else on earth. The recipe for this remarkable successwas described in the Sunday Telegraph magazine of 29th Septeber 1996as "lush tales of sex, greed and venality, and thickened with handpickedcasts of raffish swindlers and siliconeboosted ubervixens." Spellingis 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, Spellingdraws attention to productions such as And The Band Played On, whichdealt 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 deservedis not credit.

Spelling is known both as a compulsive liar and a recluse. Hisonly party at his $ 45 million home in California was thrown in honour ofthe Prince of Wales as a personal favour for Spelling's old friendLew Wasserman, head of the giant MCA entertainment combine.