Glenn Beck has not called attention to the real source of media bias and the devastating effect it has on the political scene. by Lou Poumakis
(libertarian)
Monday, July 19, 2010
To set the stage correctly, I’d like to begin by saying that I’m a regular viewer of Glenn’s program and am greatly appreciative of the really excellent work he’s doing. At great risk and sacrifice to both himself and his family, he has awakened millions of Americans to many of the realities of life among our perverse politicians.
That said, I must also say that it seems to me he has either overlooked one of the central factors in the current swing to the left or has just decided not to discuss it, perhaps because he deems it too controversial or too risky.
Glenn often cries out about the fact that the mainstream US media (outside of FOX) uniformly ignores highly newsworthy articles that run counter to their socialistic agenda. The universal nature of this censorship runs counter to what one assumes motivates reporters and commentary writers, individuals that one would think would jump at the chance to break hot stories that would enhance their careers. No doubt there are many such individuals but they have learned that to buck the system is not the way to get ahead. Their editors block any articles or stories that are out of step with their agenda and make sure the reporters that hand in such material are properly instructed in what is acceptable and what is not. This, of course, goes up the management ladder as well. Higher level managers see to it that their editors and lower level managers – that make it through the hiring process – are of the same general persuasion (e.g., good little socialists) and that the mavericks that slip through are either corrected or encouraged to leave. Ultimately it is the top man (or possibly a board of directors) that sets the tone for each newspaper, TV network or news agency.
We have then a relatively small number of individuals (at most a few hundred) that wield an enormous amount of political power. They make and break congressmen, senators and presidents; they sway elections through their control over what the people are told and what choices (all favoring their agendas) are open to them. If they chose to they could constitute what amounts to an oligarchy (rule by a few) that operates a level above the elected legislative, executive and judiciary branches of government.
To think these people don’t talk to each other and share their views with each other on specific issues is highly naive. The fact that they are so uniformly opposed to the FOX perspective on virtually every incident demonstrates that there must be some mechanism in place that operates to synchronize their actions. The recent Glenn Beck story of the release of the Black Panther individuals, one of which openly advocated killing "crackers" and their babies, that was totally ignored by the mainstream media is just one of the many blatant demonstrations of how tightly controlled this media really is.
The American people need to be made aware of the extent to which their political freedom has been compromised. Most are under the impression that we live in a democratic republic in which the people have at least some degree of control of the government through their representatives. This is far from true; the astute politician knows that if he wants to be reelected he needs media support, which ultimately translates into popular support. Politicians are well aware that to arouse the ire of the media elite is political suicide so they are careful to stay on their good side.
If enough people were made aware of the fact of this oligarchy and how they control both votes and politicians, they would be outraged and its power would be seriously impacted. It would lose control over who gets elected because many voters would react negatively to what they say and turn to alternative media for information. Politicians in turn would discover this quickly and get out from under their net also. It could constitute a sea-change in popular attitude, one that might be a real step toward a restoration of the republic.
The American people are a huge and extremely powerful army that has been divided against itself and does not know who it is fighting against. They need to come to the realization that the enemy is within and they need to be able to focus on a specific embodiment of that enemy. This media-controlling oligarchy is just such an embodiment. If Glenn and FOX were to level their guns against this target, they might just be able to break through the apathy that is currently prevalent in most of their audience. Let’s hope and pray they have the courage to do so.
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You establish a valid point........that the media is corrupt, for which there is plenty of obvious evidence and then without any facts or reason, you make an exception!
Here's something similar.........baseball players take steroids.......oh, but Bonds doesn't, because he told me so!
here's another...........war is bad.......oh, but its okay in Iraq and Afganny!
income tax is bad, well unless it's the lower classes that pay.
Posted By: Billy Roper
Date: July 20, 2010 10:31:50 AM
It makes one wonder, is there anything else which many of these people who have such influence over the news and entertainment media have in common with one another, aside from ideology? For example, are a majority of them Irish, or Presbyterian? If one could establish that many of them were members of a specific population group which was greatly overrepresented in the media, that might be more than just coincidence.
Posted By: Joel S. Hirschhorn
Date: July 20, 2010 05:52:39 PM
What is ruining our nation is rampant stupidity, ignorance and delusional thinking, all of which personifies Beck and so many other idiots that gather big audiences because they appeal to people sharing those qualities.
Posted By: Billy Roper
Date: July 21, 2010 01:26:45 AM
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.
LESLIE MOONVES, president of CBS television, 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.
JONATHAN MILLER, chair and CEO of AOL division of AOL-Time-Warner
NEIL SHAPIRO, president of NBC News
JEFF GASPIN, Executive Vice-President, Programming, NBC
DAVID WESTIN, president of ABC News
SUMNER REDSTONE, CEO of Viacom, “world’s biggest media giant” (Economist, 11/23/2) owns Viacom cable, CBS and MTVs all over the world, Blockbuster video rentals and Black Entertainment TV.
MICHAEL EISNER, major owner of Walt Disney, Capitol Cities, ABC.
RUPERT MURDOCH, Owner Fox TV, New York Post, London Times, News of the World (Jewish mother)
MEL KARMAZIN, president of CBS
DON HEWITT, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes, CBS
JEFF FAGER, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes II. CBS
DAVID POLTRACK, Executive Vice-President, Research and Planning, CBS
SANDY KRUSHOW, Chair, Fox Entertainment
LLOYD BRAUN, Chair, ABC Entertainment
BARRY MEYER, chair, Warner Bros.
SHERRY LANSING. President of Paramount Communications and Chairman of Paramount Pictures’ Motion Picture Group.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN, CEO. Miramax Films.
BRAD SIEGEL., President, Turner Entertainment.
PETER CHERNIN, second in-command at Rupert Murdoch’s News. Corp., owner of Fox TV
MARTY PERETZ, owner and publisher of the New Republic, which openly identifies itself as pro-Israel. Al Gore credits Marty with being his “mentor.”
ARTHUR O. SULZBERGER, JR., publisher of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and other publications.
WILLIAM SAFIRE, syndicated columnist for the NYT.
TOM FRIEDMAN, syndicated columnist for the NYT.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post. Honored by Honest Reporting.com, website monitoring “anti-Israel media.”
RICHARD COHEN, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post
JEFF JACOBY, syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe
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.
ARIE FLEISCHER, Dubya’s press secretary.
STEPHEN EMERSON, every media outlet’s first choice as an expert on domestic terrorism.
DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN, owner of the Village Voice and the New Times network of “alternative weeklies.”
DENNIS LEIBOWITZ, head of Act II Partners, a media hedge fund
KENNETH POLLACK, for CIA analysts, director of Saban Center for Middle East Policy, writes op-eds in NY Times, New Yorker
BARRY DILLER, chair of USA Interactive, former owner of Universal Entertainment
KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
RICHARD LEIBNER, runs the N.S. Bienstock talent agency, which represents 600 news personalities such as Dan Rather, Dianne Sawyer and Bill O’Reilly.
TERRY SEMEL, CEO, Yahoo, former chair, Warner Bros.
MARK GOLIN, VP and Creative Director, AOL
WARREN LIEBERFORD, Pres., Warner Bros. Home Video Div. of AOL- TimeWarner
JEFFREY ZUCKER, President of NBC Entertainment
JACK MYERS, NBC, chief.NYT 5.14.2
SANDY GRUSHOW, chair of Fox Entertainment
GAIL BERMAN, president of Fox Entertainment
STEPHEN SPIELBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks
JEFFREY KATZENBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks
DAVID GEFFEN, co-owner of Dreamworks
LLYOD BRAUN, chair of ABC Entertainment
JORDAN LEVIN, president of Warner Bros. Entertainment
MAX MUTCHNICK, co-executive producer of NBC’s “Good Morning Miami”
DAVID KOHAN, co-executive producer of NBC’s “Good Morning Miami”
HOWARD STRINGER, chief of Sony Corp. of America
AMY PASCAL, chair of Columbia Pictures
JOEL KLEIN, chair and CEO of Bertelsmann’s American operations
ROBERT SILLERMAN, founder of Clear Channel Communications
BRIAN GRADEN, president of MTV entertainment
IVAN SEIDENBERG, CEO of Verizon Communications
WOLF BLITZER, host of CNN’s Late Edition
LARRY KING, host of Larry King Live
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 LEDEEN, editor of National Review
BRUCE NUSSBAUM, editorial page editor, Business Week
DONALD GRAHAM, Chair and CEO of Newsweek and Washington Post, son of
CATHERINE GRAHAM MEYER, former owner of the Washington Post
HOWARD FINEMAN, Chief Political Columnist, Newsweek
WILLIAM KRISTOL, Editor, Weekly Standard, Exec. Director
Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
RON ROSENTHAL, Managing Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
PHIL BRONSTEIN, Executive Editor, San Francisco Chronicle,
RON OWENS, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)
JOHN ROTHMAN, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)
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.
BEN WATTENBERG, Moderator, PBS Think Tank.
ANDREW LACK, president of NBC
DANIEL MENAKER, Executive Director, Harper Collins
DAVID REMNICK, Editor, The New Yorker
NICHOLAS LEHMANN, writer, the New York
HENRICK HERTZBERG, Talk of the Town editor, The New Yorker
SAMUEL NEWHOUSE JR, and DONALD NEWHOUSE own 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.
DONALD NEWHOUSE, chairman of the board of directors, Associated Press.
PETER R KANN, CEO, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s
RALPH J. & BRIAN ROBERTS, Owners, Comcast-ATT Cable TV.
LAWRENCE KIRSHBAUM, CEO, AOL-Time Warner Book Group
Posted By: Lou Poumakis
Date: July 22, 2010 10:33:18 AM
Billy, I'm impressed with the list of names you came up with. I don't think, though, that they represent the top level of the hierarchy. I'd look at these individuals as the middle managers or front men that take orders or at least get their operating principles from higher up. It might be a lot more difficult to get a list of the top level people.
Posted By: Billy Roper
Date: July 23, 2010 12:59:01 PM
You may be right, but I guess these guys are the highest level which we mere mortals can access in the power strata. What do you think they might have in common? That might tell us something about whom they would take their orders from.
Posted By: Lou Poumakis
Date: July 23, 2010 01:10:59 PM
Billy, I would say that they are generally politically liberal or socialistic, socially progressive and religiously atheistic and strongly anti-Christian. Their current top level goal is the establishment of a one-world, socialistic, atheistic, totalitarian state in which they would be the kingpins.
Posted By: Billy Roper
Date: July 24, 2010 11:42:59 AM
I would agree. But if they were all Irish, or Lebanese, that might raise some eyebrows and cause some to ask why there were such a preponderance of Irish or Lebanese at that level of management of the news and entertainment media. As it turns out, they are all of Eastern European Jewish ancestry.
