Who Controls the News? (Part 1)

Who Controls the News? (Part 1)

ABC News:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_news

Ben Sherwood(Ashkenazi Jew) – President
http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/bios/display_bios.aspx?bio_type=news_executives&bio_id=351

Amy Entelis(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President, Talent Recruitment and Business Affairs
http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/bios/display_bios.aspx?bio_type=news_executives&bio_id=75

Nancy Han(Jewish spouse: Scott Wapner) – Executive Producer, “ABC News NOW”
http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/bios/display_bios.aspx?bio_type=news_executives&bio_id=198

Phyllis McGrady(Northern European) – Senior Vice President, Creative Development
http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/bios/display_bios.aspx?bio_type=news_executives&bio_id=81

Robert Murphy(Northern European) – Vice President, Administration
http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/bios/display_bios.aspx?bio_type=news_executives&bio_id=82

Kate O’Brian(Northern European) – Senior Vice President, News
http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/bios/display_bios.aspx?bio_type=news_executives&bio_id=104

Jeffrey W. Schneider(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President, Communications
http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/bios/display_bios.aspx?bio_type=news_executives&bio_id=108

Paul Slavin(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President, ABC News Digital
http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/bios/display_bios.aspx?bio_type=news_executives&bio_id=117

Kerry Smith(Northern European) – Senior Vice President, Editorial Quality
http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/bios/display_bios.aspx?bio_type=news_executives&bio_id=118

Bloomberg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P

Michael R. Bloomberg(Ashkenazi Jew) – Founder and Owner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg

Peter T. Grauer(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman
http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/events.taf?EventID=GC03&SPID=901&cat=allconf&function=show&level1=speakers&level2=bio

Daniel L. Doctoroff(Ashkenazi Jew) – President
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_L._Doctoroff

Matthew Winkler(Ashkenazi Jew) – Editor in Chief, Bloomberg News
http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/gcprogram.taf?function=bio&EventID=GC10&SPID=4571

Norman Pearlstine(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg News
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Pearlstine

Andrew Lack(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chief Executive Officer, Bloomberg Multimedia
http://www.paleycenter.org/andrew-lack-ceo-multimedia-group-bloomberg-lp

CBS News:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cbs_news

Sean J. McManus(Northern European) – President
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/26/broadcasts/main981781.shtml

Paul Friedman(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Vice President
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/26/utility/main1838663.shtml

Barbara Fedida(Ashkenazi Jew) – Vice President, Talent and Development
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/09/utility/main2457663.shtml

Bill Martens(Ashkenazi Jew) – Vice President of Product Development and Strategy, CBSNews.com
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/18/utility/main951749.shtml?

Jeffrey Fager(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Producer, “60 Minutes”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/01/04/60minutes/bios/main26911.shtml

David Friedman(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Producer, “The Early Show”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/10/earlyshow/main5963298.shtml

Rick Kaplan(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Producer, “CBS Evening News With Katie Couric”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/08/utility/main2547774.shtml

Rand Morrison(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Producer, “CBS News Sunday Morning”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/08/sunday/main524809.shtml

Carin Pratt(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Producer, “Face The Nation”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/20/ftn/bios/main530207.shtml

Patricia Shevlin(Northern European) – Executive Producer, “CBS Evening News” Weekend Editions
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/08/broadcasts/main524815.shtml

Susan Zirinsky(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Producer, “48 Hours”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/08/01/48hours/bios/main15206.shtml

CNBC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnbc

Mark Hoffman(Ashkenazi Jew) – President and Chief Executive Officer
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/hoffman

CNN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnn

Jim Walton(Northern European) – President, CNN Worldwide
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/walton.jim.html

Jonathan Klein(Ashkenazi Jew) – Former President, CNN U.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Klein_%28CNN%29

Ken Jautz(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Vice President
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/jautz.ken.html

Scot M. Safon(Ashkenazi Jew homosexual) – Executive Vice President
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/safon.scot.html

Susan M. Bunda(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Vice President of Content Development and Strategy
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/bunda.susan.html

Richard Davis(Northern European) – Executive Vice President of News Standards and Practices
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/davis.richard.html

Susan Grant(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Vice President of CNN News Services
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/grant.susan.html

Tony Maddox(Northern European) – Executive Vice President and Managing Director
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/maddox.tony.html

Katherine Green(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President of Programming
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/green.katherine.html

Parisa Khosravi(Middle Eastern) – Senior Vice President of International Newsgathering
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/khosravi.parisa.html

Fox News:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_news

Roger E. Ailes(Northern European) – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes

Michael Clemente(Northern European) – Senior Vice President, News Editorial
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20090224005922/en/Michael-Clemente-Joins-FOX-News-ABC-News

Bill Shine(Northern European) – Senior Vice President, Programming
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_Jan_13/ai_n8691518
(no photo available)

Bill Sammon(Northern European) – Vice President of News and Washington Managing Editor
http://www.foxnews.com/bios/talent/sammon

MSNBC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Msnbc

Phil Griffin(Jewish spouse: Kory Apton) – President
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/griffin

Deb Finan(Northern European) – Vice President, Production & Programming
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/finan
(no photo available)

Bill Wolff(Ashkenazi Jew) – Vice President, Primetime Programming
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/wolff

Michael Rubin(Ashkenazi Jew) – Vice President, Long Form Programming
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080273/ns/msnbc_tv-about_msnbc_tv
(no photo available)

Sharon Otterman(Ashkenazi Jew) – Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/otterman
(no photo available)

Yvette Miley(Sub-Saharan African) – Executive Editor
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/miley

Charlie Tillinghast(Northern European) – President and Publisher, MSNBC.com
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/tillinghast

NBC News:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_News

Steve Capus(Ashkenazi Jew) – President
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/capus

Bob Epstein(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Producer, “Nightly News with Brian Williams”
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/epstein

Betsy Fischer(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Producer, “Meet the Press”
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/fischer

Nancy Nathan(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Producer, “The Chris Matthews Show”
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/nathan

David Corvo(Jewish spouse: Michele Willens) – Executive Producer, “Dateline NBC”
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/corvo

Jim Bell(Northern European) – Executive Producer, “Today”
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/bell

David McCormick(Northern European) – Executive Producer, Broadcast Standards & Ombudsman
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/mccormick

Mark Whitaker(Jewish spouse: Alexis Gelber) – Senior Vice President and Washington D.C. Bureau Chief
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/whitaker

Lauren Kapp(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President, NBC News Marketing and Communications
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/kapp-1

Alexandra Wallace(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/wallace-1

Cheryl Gould(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/gould

Elena Nachmanoff(Ashkenazi Jew) – Vice President
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/nachmanoff

Lloyd Siegel(Ashkenazi Jew) – Vice President, News Partnerships
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/siegel

Mark Lukasiewicz(Ashkenazi Jew) – Vice President, NBC News Specials and Digital Media
http://www.nbcuni.com/management/executives-by-business/lukasiewicz

NPR News:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_Radio

Ellen Weiss(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President for News
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6461426

Dick Meyer(Ashkenazi Jew) – Executive Editor for News
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92034965

Ellen McDonnell(Northern European) – Executive Director of News Programming
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100900

Mark Stencel(Ashkenazi Jew) – Managing Editor, Digital News
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121773564

Jeffrey Katz(Ashkenazi Jew) – Deputy Managing Editor, Digital News
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106732092

Summary:
Of the sixty-seven(67) senior executives of the major television and radio news networks, forty-seven(47) are Jews or have Jewish spouses. This is a numerical representation of 70%. Jews are approximately 2% of the U.S. population.* Therefore Jews and spouses of Jews are over-represented among the senior executives of the major television and radio news networks by a factor of 35 times(3,500 percent).

* Jewish Population of the United States by State
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usjewpop.html