Anonymous Coward
6/13/2009 5:45:00 PM
"Kenneth McVay OBC" <kmcvay@shell.vex.net> wrote in message
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> In article <R-OdnW4OBZKhXK7XnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
> J Antero <abc@xyz.com> wrote:
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>>Something like 30 pct of the people in the American media are of jewish
>>background, and they have a very effective lobbying system.
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> Bullshit. Cite the source of your, er, data.
For one thing, fool, anyone who watches US media knows there is a heavy
weighting of jewish named reporters and commentators.
If I remember right, in the late 1980's, a (Jewish?) author wrote a book on
a study he did on the US media and came up with around 30 pct weighting of
prominent people in the field. That's where my reference to "30 pct" comes
from.
Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab, pointed out in their 1995 book, "Jews and the
New American Scene":
"During the last three decades Jews [in the United States] have made up 50
percent of the top two hundred intellectuals ... 20 percent of professors at
the leading universities ... 40 percent of partners in the leading law firms
in New York and Washington ... 59 percent of the directors, writers and
producers of the 50 top-grossing motion pictures from 1965 to 1982, and 58
percent of directors, writers and producers in two or more primetime
television series."
The influence of American Jewry in Washington, notes the Israeli daily
Jerusalem Post, is "far disproportionate to the size of the community,
Jewish leaders and U.S. officials acknowledge. But so is the amount of money
they contribute to [election] campaigns." One member of the influential
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations "estimated
Jews alone had contributed 50 percent of the funds for [President Bill]
Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign."
"It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and
prominence in popular culture," acknowledges Michael Medved, a well-known
Jewish author and film critic. "Any list of the most influential production
executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority
of recognizably Jewish names."
One person who has carefully studied this subject is Jonathan J. Goldberg,
now Editor of the influential Jewish community weekly Forward. In his 1996
book, Jewish Power, he wrote: "In a few key sectors of the media, notably
among Hollywood studio executives, Jews are so numerically dominant that
calling these businesses Jewish-controlled is little more than a statistical
observation ...