How did the stereotype Jews control the media develop?

[See You at the Show]

I’m just interested in the how and why certain groups are stereotype the way they are. I know historically the Jewish people have been the scapegoats for pretty much anything that went wrong. Even the Black Plague was blamed in part on the Jewish people because the Jews weren’t getting sick at the same rate as the Christians due to their strict dietary and sanitary rituals.

But in this age of, I guess, Enlightenment for humanity, how does the rumor Jews control the media persist? How did it start? I tried researching it, but all that does is bring up conspiracy sites with little to no factoids, and mostly personal ranting

[Prisoner]

It all started because of one guy - Henry Ford. He was the most well-known American industrialist of his day, and when he talked, people listened. He was also anti-Semitic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew

[Teflon Don]

Rupert Murdoch – Owner Fox TV, New York Post, London Times, News of the World (Jewish mother Elisabeth Joy Greene)

Charles Krauthammer – syndicated columnist for the Washington Post -

Stephen Spielberg – co-founder/owner of Dreamworks

Robert Stillerman – founder of Clear Channel Communications

Brian Graden – president of MTV entertainment -

Wolf Blitzer – host of CNN’s Late Edition
Ted Koppel – host of ABC’s Nightline Andrea Koppel –

CNN Reporter Paula Zahn – CNN Host
Mike Wallace – Host of CBS 60 Minutes
Barbara Walters – Host, ABC’s 20-20

Michael Savage – Talk Show Host, KFSO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco) Syndicated in 100 markets

Michael Medved – Talk Show Host, on 124 AM stations Dennis Prager – Talk Show Host, nationally syndicated from LA. Has Israeli flag on his home page.

Howard Stern – radio shock jock Jon Stewart – comedian, presenter of The Daily Show

[kaganate]

" I tried researching it, but all that does is bring up conspiracy sites with little to no factoids, and mostly personal ranting "

That's pretty much the standard of proof for this stuff.

I think the media thing developed kinda like this:

Until the Civil Rights laws of the 1960ies, Jews were kept out of a number of professions, professional associations, etc.
Vaudeville, movies, comics -- these were all seen as less than respectable and mostly "flash in the pan" activities which the Jews were not prevented entry to because the Anglos in charge did not think them worth bothering with.

'Course -- the Jews made them work
and a few impoverished bowery Yids became "the Moguls" of holywood

Then, once they made it, the Jew-haters saw that success as evidence of wrongdoing --
and - if there were Jews making movies - then they must be inapropriately controlling the media.

'course the reality is that even with the Jewish "Moguls" in charge, until very recently no Jewish actor could get a job if the Jewish identity was perceivable.
So -
Nathan Birnbaum became George Burns
Dave Kaminsky became Danny Kaye
Issur Danielovitch became Kirk Douglas
Betty Joan Perske became Lauren Bacall

Can you imagine how different American culture would have been where a marquee would have read:
"Spartacus starring Issur Danielovitch"
???


..and, of course, once a Jew-hater discovered that someone was a "secret Jew" -- then that served as further evidence of the great big plot.

[Feivel]

It was because of a number of things. First, Joseph Pulitzer was born to a Jewish family. William Randolph Hearst was not but that didn't matter. One guy was so it became "Jewish run" and I have ever heard the Hearst family were "crypto" Jews. The first three major motion picture studios in Hollywood were started by Jews but they were secular Jews and not religious ones.

Today, it is so much easier to blame the Jews for the worlds ills by saying we control everything. As you have witnessed by asking this question, people will alter the facts to fit the lie. Rupert Murdoch is not Jewish. He is Scottish and I believe Presbyterian. It is just easier to call him a "crypto-Jew" and count him as a Jew rather than have the conspiracy theory discredited.

Here is a list of the richest media moguls today.
http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/...dia-mogul/

The only one on the list I am aware is Jewish is actually Sumner Redstone and his father was so interested in distancing himself from Judaism he changed the family name from Rothstein to Redstone and sent his son to the Boston Latin School and not a Jewish academy of any type. Still, he is Jewish by Jewish law.

Today, we have social media. Mark Zuckerberg is a non-religious Jew. He owns Facebook. Twitter is owned by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Noah Glass. Glass is the only Jewish owner. Tumbler was created by Jack Karp who, to my knowledge is NOT Jewish. Pintrest was created by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp. I believe Silberman is a secular Jewish.

The major TV stations are held by companies and most are publically traded which means they are owned by shareholders.

In reality, who seems to control the media are white men (although clearly some names on the list are Hispanic or Indian in origin) who are probably xian or born to xian families but they are probably no more religious than Zuckerberg or Redstone.

It is just easier to say "Jews control the media" rather than actually looking into who really does.

By the way, presidents of companies, answer to their board of directors who answer to shareholders. It does not mean they "control" their media outlet. It means they have the the next to the last word....the board could step in and fire them which would be last word unless the shareholders disagreed with the move and then the chairman of the board could start replacing board members or major stockholders vote on the board members.

Most religious Jews who have much identification as being Jews are not moguls of any type. You might find a surgeon here and there, a lawyer here and there, a judge, etc etc but most of us are middle class and a few are upper class.

[ted w]

We Jews are a funny breed. We love to brag about every Jewish actor. Sometimes we even pretend an actor is Jewish just because we like him enough that we think he deserves to be on our team. We brag about Jewish authors, Jewish politicians, Jewish directors. Every time someone mentions any movie or book or piece of art, we inevitably say something like, “Did you know that he was Jewish?” That’s just how we roll.

We’re a driven group, and not just in regards to the art world. We have, for example, AIPAC, which was essentially constructed just to drive agenda in Washington DC. And it succeeds admirably. And we brag about it. Again, it’s just what we do.

But the funny part is when any anti-Semite or anti-Israel person starts to spout stuff like, “The Jews control the media!” and “The Jews control Washington!”

Suddenly we’re up in arms. We create huge campaigns to take these people down. We do what we can to put them out of work. We publish articles. We’ve created entire organizations that exist just to tell everyone that the Jews don’t control nothin’. No, we don’t control the media, we don’t have any more sway in DC than anyone else. No, no, no, we swear: We’re just like everybody else!

Does anyone else see the irony of this?

Let’s be honest with ourselves, here, fellow Jews. We do control the media. We’ve got so many dudes up in the executive offices in all the big movie production companies it’s almost obscene. Just about every movie or TV show, whether it be “Tropic Thunder” or “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is rife with actors, directors, and writers who are Jewish. Did you know that all eight major film studios are run by Jews?
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.

But that’s not all. We also control the ads that go on those TV shows.

And let’s not forget AIPAC, every anti-Semite’s favorite punching bag. We’re talking an organization that’s practically the equivalent of the Elders of Zion. I’ll never forget when I was involved in Israeli advocacy in college and being at one of the many AIPAC conventions. A man literally stood in front of us and told us that their whole goal was to only work with top-50 school graduate students because they would eventually be the people making changes in the government. Here I am, an idealistic little kid that goes to a bottom 50 school (ASU) who wants to do some grassroots advocacy, and these guys are literally talking about infiltrating the government. Intense.

Now, I know what everyone will say. That everyone tries to lobby. Every minority group and every majority group. That every group has some successful actors and directors. But that’s a far call from saying that we run Hollywood and Madison Avenue. That the Mel Gibsons of the world are right in saying we’re deliberately using our power to take over the world. That we’ve got some crazy conspiracy going down.

Okay. Fine. So some of that is kooky talk.

But let’s look at it a bit deeper.

Maybe it’s true: everyone lobbies. Maybe it’s true there are actors of every ethnicity out there. But come on. We’re the ones who are bragging about this stuff all the time. Can’t we admit that we’re incredibly successful? Can’t we say it to the world?

I’ll give my theory for why Jews don’t want to talk about their control of the media.

First of all, as much as Jews like to admit that so many of them are successful, and that so many of them have accomplished so much, they hate to admit that it has to do with they’re being Jewish. Maybe they’ll admit that it has something to do with the Jewish experience. But how many Jews will admit that there is something inherently a part of every single one of them that helps them to accomplish amazing things?

The ADL chairman, Abe Foxman, was interviewed in a great article about the subject and he said that he “would prefer people say that many executives in the industry ‘happen to be Jewish.’” This just about sums up the party line.

The truth is, the anti-Semites got it right. We Jews have something planted in each one of us that makes us completely different from every group in the world. We’re talking about a group of people that just got put in death camps, endured pogroms, their whole families decimated. And then they came to America, the one place that ever really let them have as much power as they wanted, and suddenly they’re taking over. Please don’t tell me that any other group in the world has ever done that. Only the Jews. And we’ve done it before. That’s why the Jews were enslaved in Egypt. We were too successful. Go look at the Torah — it’s right there. And we did it in Germany too.

This ability to succeed, this inner drive, comes not from the years of education or any other sort of conditional factors, but because of the inner spark within each Jew.

Now, the reason groups like the ADL and AIPAC hate admitting this is because, first of all, they are secular organizations. Their whole agenda is to prove that every Jew is the same as every other person in the world. I cannot imagine a more outlandish agenda. No, we’re different. We’re special.
And clearly, that whole thing about big Jewish noses was totally blown out of proportion. (illustrative photo: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

And clearly, that whole thing about big Jewish noses was totally blown out of proportion. (illustrative photo: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Of course, people hate when anyone says this. They assume that if you’re saying that Jews are special, it somehow implies that they’re better.

To be honest, I’m not really sure what the word “better” even means. What I do know is that being special simply means a person has a responsibility to do good.

I think that’s the real reason most Jews are so afraid to admit that there’s something inherently powerful and good about them. Not because they’re afraid of being special. But because they’re afraid of being responsible. It means that they’re suddenly culpable when they create dirty TV shows that sully the spiritual atmosphere of the world. It means that things can’t just be created for the sake of amusement or fun or even “art.”

Suddenly, we can’t screw up the world.

The interesting thing is that Jews have done so much for the world in so many other ways. They’ve moved forward civil rights; they’ve helped save lives in Darfur, Haiti and just about everywhere else.

But that’s not enough. Fixing the world physically is only half the battle.

Our larger battle, the harder battle, is elevating the world spiritually. And this is what the people that fight with every inch of their soul to prove that Jews are just the same as everyone else are afraid of. It means that we can no longer just “express ourselves.” We’ll have to start thinking about the things we create and the way we act. It means we’ll have to start working together. It means we’ll have to hold one other, and ourselves, to a higher standard.

The time has come, though. We no longer have to change our names. We no longer have to blend in like chameleons. We own a whole freaking country.

Instead, we can be proud of who we are, and simultaneously aware of our huge responsibility — and opportunity.

[Matthew]

when was the last movie/blockbuster in hollywood you saw about the victims of dresden or palestine?

thats why. every year a hundred new movies about how jews are the victim is released. and the antagonist is either arab or german. these movies are made by spielberg and all the other jew owned conglomerates of the western world.