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From: http://www.globalissues.org/article/159/media-conglomerates-mergers-concentration-of-ownership
“…Mother Jones magazine reports that by the end of 2006, there are only 8 giant media companies dominating the US media, from which most people get their news and information:
* Disney (market value: $72.8 billion)
* AOL-Time Warner (market value: $90.7 billion)
* Viacom (market value: $53.9 billion)
* General Electric (owner of NBC, market value: $390.6 billion)
* News Corporation (market value: $56.7 billion)
* Yahoo! (market value: $40.1 billion)
* Microsoft (market value: $306.8 billion)
* Google (market value: $154.6 billion)
At the end of the 1990s, there were 9 corporations (mainly US) that dominated the media world:
* AOL-Time Warner
* Disney
* Bertelsmann
* Viacom
* News Corporation
* TCI
* General Electric (owner of NBC)
* Sony (owner of Columbia and TriStar Pictures and major recording interests), and
Seagram (owner of Universal film and music interests).
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(others soon)
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Roger Ailes - News Corp., Chairman of FTS and FOX News
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Eric Alterman
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Michael Bass – NBC Universal senior vp strategic initiatives; former Senior executive producer CBS Early Show
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Glenn Beck
[Avotaynu Jewish surnames: Beck: ABGHIJKNOQRSUVWXZacdeghiklop http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.htm]
Glenn Lee Beck / Faux News, etc. / Salary: US$ 32 million (2009–10) / “Mormon” / Spouse(s): Claire (1983–1994), Tania (1999–present) / Children: Mary, Hannah (from first marriage); Raphe, Cheyenne (from second marriage) / Residence: New Canaan, Connecticut.
-Glenn L Beck 3422 Stonebridge Trl; Valrico, FL 33596-9237 [Tania Beck]
-?>Glenn L Beck PO Box 188; Pound Ridge, NY 10576-0188
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Gail Berman - president of Paramount Pictures since March 2005, formerly ran Fox Entertainment Group.
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Richard Bernstein – Western Publishing, childrens books
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Jeffrey Bewkes – Time Warner Inc., Chairman and CEO
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Anchor of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer; host of CNN’s Late Edition; Emmy Award-Winning Journalist; CNN Senior White House CorrespondentWolf Isaac Blitzer…began his career in journalism in the early 1970s in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency, etc.
-Wolf I Blitzer 8929 Holly Leaf Ln; Bethesda, MD 20817-2654 [60-64 / Lynn G Blitzer, Liana M Blitzer]
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Stuart Bloomberg – ABC Head of Entertainment Division
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George W. Bodenheimer – ESPN, President and CEO (an ABC cable subsidiary); Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks; President, ESPN and ABC Sports
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Lloyd Braun - Chair, ABC entertainment.
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Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - Chairman of Seagram Company Ltd; owns 80% of MCA; MCA owns RCA and Universal Studios, etc.
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Edgar Bronfman, Jr – President and CEO of Seagram Company Ltd and head of Universal Studios; NBC Universal.
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Phil Bronstein - Executive Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
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Lynn Calpeter – NBC Universal Inc., EVP and CFO
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Chase Carey – Fox Entertainment Group, Deputy Chairman, President, and COO, News Corporation
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Mona Charen
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Peter Chernin - President and Co-Chief-Operating-Officer of News Corporation Limited; Murdoch’s number two executive. Murdoch’s News Corporation also owns the New York Post and TV Guide, and both are published under Chernin’s supervision.
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Richard Cohen – syndicated columnist for the Washington Post
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Alan Colmes
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Beryl Cook - News Corp., Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
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Dennis Dammerman - Vice Chairman of General Electric (NBC)
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Uri Dan
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Martin S. Davis – Paramount Comm. CEO
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Alan Dershowitz
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David F. DeVoe – Fox Entertainment Group, SEVP and CFO
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Barry Diller - Owner of InterActive Corporation, which owns Expedia, Ticketmaster, The Home Shopping Network, Lending Tree, Hotels.com, CitySearch, Evite, Match.com, and other Internet businesses.
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Michael Eisner – Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Major owner of Walt Disney, Capitol Cities, ABC.
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Jewell Engstrom – CFO and EVP, Disney ABC Networks Group
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Jeff Fager - Exec. Director, 60 Minutes II. CBS
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Howard Fineman – Chief Political Columnist, Newsweek.
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Tom Freston - co-president and co-COO at Viacom
(<–(l-r) Rupert Murdoch, Peter Chernin, Tom Freston, Brian Grazer and Les Moonves) ******
Jane Friedman - chairman and CEO of Harper Collins
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Steven Friedman – NBC Executive Producer Nightly News
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Thomas Friedman - syndicated columnist for the NYT.
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John Fund
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Jeff Gaspin - Chairman, NBC Universal Television Entertainment; Executive Vice-President, Programming, NBC.
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David Geffen - co-owner, DreamWorks SKG
(<–DreamWorks co-founders David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg)******
David Gelernter
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Bernard Gershon - senior vice president/general manager of the ABC News Digital Media Group, in charge of ABCNEWS.com, ABC News Productions, and ABC News Video Source.
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Jonah Goldberg
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Leonard Goldenson - ABC
Leonard Goldenson - ABC
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Mark Golin – VP and Creative Director, AOL.
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Brian Graden – president of MTV entertainment.
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Donald Graham
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Katherine Meyer Graham – Newsweek, Washington Post. Daughter of Eugene Meyer.
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Sandy Grushow – chair of Fox Entertainment.
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Peter Guber – Columbia Pictures. 1989. Bought by SONY, Guber replaced Kaufman as CEO.
Peter Guber – Columbia Pictures. 1989. Bought by SONY, Guber replaced Kaufman as CEO.
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Yossi Klein Halevi
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Sean Hannity
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James L. Hedges – EVP and CFO, ABC Television Network and ABC Television Studios
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Jacob Heilbrun
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Gary Hersh – Capitol Records CEO
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Henrick Hertzberg – Talk of the Town editor, The New Yorker
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Don Hewitt - Exec. Director, 60 Minutes, CBS
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Mark Hoffman – President, CNBC
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David Horowitz
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Robert Iger – Walt Disney Co., President, CEO, and Director
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Lawrence A Jacobs, News Corp., Sr. EVP, Group General Counsel
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Jeff Jacoby – syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe.
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Robert Kagan
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Peter Kalikow – New York Post. Real estate devloper.
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Peter R. Kann – CEO, Dow Jones, Wall St Journal, Barrons.
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Lawrence Kaplan - The New Republic
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Melvin A. Karmazin, was number two at Viacom until June 2004, holding the positions of president and chief operating officer. Karmazin remains a large Viacom shareholder. President of CBS.
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Jeffrey Katzenberg – co-owner, DreamWorks SKG
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Jon Katzman – Television producer; Producer/Film Festival Proprietor (Third Screen Film Festival); former Management Associates Program at NBC, reporting to NBC Chairman Brandon Tartikoff, etc.
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Victor A. Kaufman – Columbia Pictures, CEO
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Larry King – host of Larry King Live.
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Lawrence Kirshbaum – CEO, AOL-Time Warner Book Group.
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Joel Klein – chair and CEO of Bertelsmann’s American operations
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David Kohan – co-executive producer of NBC’s “Good Morning Miami”
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Morton Kondracke
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Andrea Koppel – CNN Reporter.
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Ted Koppel – host of ABC’s Nightline.
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Charles Koppelman – EMI Records CEO
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Charles Krauthammer – syndicated columnist for the Washington Post.
Honored by Honest Reporting.com, website monitoring “anti-Israel media.”
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Lee Kravitz, Parade editor and senior vice president
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Irving Kristol
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William Kristol – Editor, Weekly Standard, Exec. Director
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Sandy Krushow - Chair, Fox Entertainment.
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Lawrence Kudlow
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Andrew Lack, CEO of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, now one of the world’s largest music distributors. formerly president and CEO of NBC.
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Sherry Lansing (born Sherry Lee Heimann), heads Paramount Pictures
President of Paramount Communications and Chairman of Paramount Pictures’ Motion Picture Group.
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Michael Ledeen – editor of National Review.
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Nicholas Lehmann – writer, the New York
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Warren Lieberford – Pres., Warner Bros. Home Video Div. of AOL- TimeWarner.
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Richard Liebner – runs the N.S. Bienstock talent agency, which represents 600 news personalities such as Dan Rather, Dianne Sawyer and Bill O’Reilly.
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Dennis Leibowitz – head of Act II Partners, a media hedge fund.
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Ann Levin, AP’s national news editor
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Gerald Levin, CEO and Director of AOL Time Warner
“…Like many other Jewish media moguls, Gerald M. Levin (the head of HBO AOL Time Warner) who took over CNN from Ted Turner in the mid-1990s, is also a member of the Media Lodge of B’nai B’rith. The Zionists wanted complete control of the U.S. mass media and conspired to get CNN away from Turner’s control, etc.”
Time Warner CEO (2000-02); Council on Foreign Relations; National Cable & Telecommunications Association; Trilateral Commission; Phi Beta Kappa Society / Wife: Barbara J. Riley / Children: Leon and Laura (son Jonath[a]n murdered 1997)
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Jordan Levin – president of Warner Bros. Entertainment.
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David H. Levy, Parade science editor
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Seth Lipsky
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Rich Lowry
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Avishai Margolit
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John Martin – Time Warner Inc., EVP and CFO
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Robert Maxwell, aka Ludvik Hoch – Daily News.
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Michael Medved – Talk Show Host, on 124 AM stations
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Daniel Menaker – Executive Director, Harper Collins
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Barry Meyer – Chair, Warner Brothers
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Ron Meyer, president and chief operating officer of Universal Studios
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Jack Myers – NBC, chief.NYT 5.14.2
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Arnon Milchen (a.k.a. Milchan)
Residence: Tel Aviv.
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John Miller – NBC Universal Inc., Chief Marketing Officer; President, The NBC Agency
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Jonathan Miller – chair and CEO of AOL division of AOL-Time-Warner
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Tom Mockridge - News Corp., Chief Executive, European Television
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Leslie Moonves, President of CBS television; co-president and co-COO at Viacom. Great-nephew of David Ben-Gurion, and co-chair with Norman Ornstein of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.
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Dick Morris – The New York Post
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James R. Murdoch - (Faux) News Corp., Chair/Chief Exec. Europe Asia; New York Post, London Times, News of the World
James Murdoch has 2 children, Anneka (born in May 2003 in Hong Kong) and Walter (born 2006), with his American wife Kathryn Hufschmid, who works for the Clinton Climate Initiative (“global warming” scam), a “charitable” foundation set up by Bill “Rockefeller” Clinton in 2006.
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Eric “Stinky Airwick Hufzshitz” Hufschmid
-Eric B Hufschmid 7338 Greensboro St; Goleta, CA 93117-2817 (805) 968-5351
-Job: Endpoint Software, Owner, 7338 Greensboro St; Santa Barbara, CA 93117-2817 (805) 968-5123
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Rupert Murdoch
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Max Mutchnick – co-executive producer of NBC’s “Good Morning Miami”
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John Nallen – News Corp., Executive Vice President and Deputy Chief Financial Officer
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Victor Neufeld (formerly producer of ABC’s 20/20) produces the CBS Early Show
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Donald Newhouse – chairman of the board of directors, Associated Press; owns (along w/ Samuel (“Si”) below) Newhouse Publications, includes 26 newspapers in 22 cities; the Conde Nast magazine group, includes The New Yorker; Parade, the Sunday newspaper supplement; American City Business Journals, business newspapers published in more than 30 major cities in America; and interests in cable television programming and cable systems serving 1 million homes.
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Samuel I. “Si” Newhouse - owns two dozen daily newspapers from Staten Island to Oregon, plus the Sunday supplement Parade; the Conde Nast collection of magazines, including Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Allure, GQ, and Self; the publishing firms of Random House, Knopf, Crown, and Ballantine, among other imprints; and cable franchises with over one million subscribers.”
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Bruce Nussbaum – editorial page editor, Business Week.
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Bill O’Reilly
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Norman Ornstein – American Enterprise Inst., regular columnist for USA Today, news analyst for CBS, and co-chair with Leslie Moonves of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.
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Al Ortiz (Jewish) is executive producer and director of special events coverage for CBS News.
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Michael Ovitz – Media magnate.
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Ron Owens – Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)
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Amy Pascal, Columbia Pictures chairman; former Chairman, Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment; vice chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment, etc.
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William Paley (1901-1990: real name Palinsky), CBS
Military service: US Army (WWII, Colonel, Psychological Warfare Division.) ”Paley’s father, Samuel Paley, a Russian Jewish immigrant, ran a cigar company and, as the company became increasingly successful, the new millionaire moved his family to Philadelphia in the early 1920s. …married to Dorothy Hart Hearst, etc.”
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Richard Parsons – current chairman of Citigroup and the former Chairman and CEO of Time Warner
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Amy Pascal – chair of Columbia Pictures.
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Norman Pearlstein – Time Warner; controls 50 magazines
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John Pepper – Walt Disney Co., Chairman
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Marty Peretz - owner and publisher of the New Republic, which openly identifies itself as pro-Israel. Al Gore credits Marty with being his “mentor.”
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Daniel Pipes - The New York Post
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John Podhoretz
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Norman Podhoretz
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Kenneth Pollack - for CIA analysts, director of Saban Center for Middle East Policy, writes op-eds in NY Times, New Yorker
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David Poltrack – Executive Vice-President, Research and Planning, CBS
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Dennis Prager – Talk Show Host, nationally syndicated from LA. Has Israeli flag on his home page.
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James Rasulo – Walt Disney Co., SEVP and CFO
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Sumner Redstone (born Murray Rothstein), Chairman and CEO of Viacom, Inc; owns 76 per cent of the shares of Viacom; owns Viacom cable, CBS and MTVs all over the world, Blockbuster video rentals and Black Entertainment TV.
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David Remnick – Editor, The New Yorker.
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Brian Roberts – co-owner, Comcast-ATT Cable TV.
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Ralph Roberts – co-owner, Comcast-ATT Cable TV.
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Ronnessen – MBS. Mutual Broadcasting SYS.
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Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, Parade health editor
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A.M. Rosenthal – The New York Daily News
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Ron Rosenthal – Managing Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
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Steven J. Ross – TIME/WARNER Comm. CEO.
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Jean Rossi – Fox Entertainment Group, EVP Sales, Fox Broadcasting
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John Rothman – Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)
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Thomas Rothman, chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment.
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William Safire - syndicated columnist for the NYT.
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Jeff Sagansky (russian jew) - CBS Head Entertainment Division.
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David Sarnoff (russian jew, d. 1971), NBC
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Robert Sarnoff (russian jew, d. 1997), RCA NBC CEO (son of D. Sarnoff), etc.
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Michael Savage (Weiner) – Talk Show Host, KFSO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco) Syndicated in 100 markets
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David Schneiderman – owner of the Village Voice and the New Times network of “alternative weeklies.”
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Michael P. Schulhof – SONY. Vice chairman
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Ivan Seidenberg – CEO of Verizon Communications.
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Richard Semel – CEO, Yahoo, former chair, Warner Bros.
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Neal Shapiro, president of NBC News
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Brad Siegel – President, Turner Entertainment.
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Randy Siegel, Parade publisher
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Robert Sillerman – founder of Clear Channel Communications
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Michael Silverman, vice president and managing editor of The Associated Press (AP), which sells content to newspapers, who directs the day-to-day news reporting and supervises the editorial departments. Silverman had directed the AP’s national news as assistant managing editor, beginning in 1989.
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Arthur Siskind - News Corp., Senior Advisor to the Chairman and Board Member
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Paul Slavin, senior vice president for news at ABC
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Stacey Snider – chairman of Universal Pictures.
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Richard Snyder – Simon & Schuster.
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Stephen Spielberg – co-owner, DreamWorks SKG.
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David Stapf – President, CBS Television Studios
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Leonard Stern – VILLAGE VOICE. HARTZ pets supply.
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Mitchell Stern heads satellite television division DirecTV
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Robert Strauss – Large media investor, Bush II’s Moscow ambassador.
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Howard Stringer, formerly of CBS, heads Sony’s overall American operations.
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Arthur Ochs Sulzberger – New York Times, the Boston Globe, family circle. McCall’s, M. Frankel, J. Lelyveld, J. Rosenthal, etc.
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Anne Sweeney – Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks; President, Disney-ABC Television Group
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Brandon Tartikoff (russian jew) Paramount pictures Chairman
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Nina Tassler – President, CBS Entertainment
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Bruce Taub – EVP Operations and CFO, CBS Television
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Laurence Tisch (russian jew), CBS CEO TV, theaters, hotels, insurance
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John Wakshlag – Time Warner Inc., Chief Research Officer, Turner Broadcasting System
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Jonathan Wald, formerly an NBC program producer, now a senior consultant for CNBC.
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Mike Wallace – Host of CBS, 60 Minutes.
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Barbara Walters – Host, ABC’s 20-20
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Lew Wasserman – MCA Inc. CEO. 1991. Bought by SONY. but Wasserman still is CEO.
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Ben Wattenberg – Moderator, PBS Think Tank.
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Bob Weinstein
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Harvey Weinstein – CEO, Miramax Films.
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David Westin, president of ABC News.
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Katharine Weymouth – Chief Executive Officer, Washington Post Media; Publisher, The Washington Post
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Jonathan Wolman, was promoted to senior vice president of AP in November 2002.
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Bob Wright, current chairman of NBC Universal, long-time NBC employee.
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Ira Yoffe, Parade creative director
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Paula Zahn
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David M. Zaslav is president of NBC Cable (and also a director of digital video firm TiVo Inc.)
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Sid Zion
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Jeffrey Zucker - president and CEO of NBC Universal Television Group
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Mortimer Zuckerman – owner of NY Daily News, US News & World Report and chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying groups, etc.
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