WHO CONTROLS THE MEDIA
What do Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor-in-cheif of the
"conservative" Washington Times, and Max Frankel, top dog at the "liberal" New York Times, have in common?
At least one thing, at any rate; Both are members of the
Rockefeller family's private and secretive international pressure group known as the Council on Foreigh Relations (CFR).
De Borchgrave and Frankel join a long list of powerful media
personalities, who are members of the CFR and/or of the Trilaterial Commission (TC), another Rockefeller family front group that plays a major role in shaping U.S. foriegn policy.
Rockefeller influence on the media is immense, particularly
on the major television networks. In fact, according to researcher Peter Borsnan, the Rockefeller family's Chase Manhatan Bank ( and the other Rockefeller institutions)are among the largest holders of network stock, with substancial interests in all three networks.
Chase Manhattan controls fully 14 percent of CBS stock. Stock
analysts note that with stock widely distributed among shareholders, institutions can weild influence or outright control with 5 percent, sometimes as little as 1 or 2 percent, equity.
The accompanying chart shows some of the major media figures
(aapast and present)–editors, reporters, corporate directors, and others–who belong or have belonged to the CFR and the TC.
CFR/TC MEDIA DOMINATION
CBS
William Paley CFR William Burden CFR Roswell Gilpatric CFR James Houghton CFR Henry Schacht CFR/TC Marietta Tree CFR C.C. Collingswood CFR Laurence LaSueur CFR Dan Rather CFR Harry Reasoner CFR Richard Hottelet CFR Frank Stanton CFR Bill Moyers CFR
NBC/RCA
Jane Pfeiffer CFR Lester Crystal CFR R.W. Sonnenfeldt CFR T.F. Bradshaw CFR John Petty CFR David Brinkley CFR John Chancellor CFR Marvin Kalb CFR Irving Levine CFR H. Schlosser CFR P.G. Peterson CFR/TC Jown Sawhill CFR/TC
ABC
Ray Adam CFR Frank Cary CFR John Connor CFR T.M. Macioce CFR Ted Koppel CFR John Scalli CFR Barbara Walters CFR
PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
Hartford Gunn CFR Robert McNeil CFR Jim Lehrer CFR C. Hunter-Gault CFR Hodding Carter III CFR Daniel Schorr CFR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Keith Fuller CFR Stanley Swinton CFR Louis Boccardi CFR Harold Anderson CFR Katherine Graham CFR
U.P.I.
H. L. Stevenson CFR
REUTERS
Michael Posner CFR
BOSTON GLOBE
David Rogers CFR
BALTIMORE SUN
Henry Trewhitt CFR
NEW YORK TIMES CO.
Richard Gelb CFR James Reston CFR William Scranton CFR/TC A.M. Rosenthal CFR Seymore Topping CFR James Greenfield CFR Max Frankel CFR Jack Rosenthal CFR Harding Bancroft CFR Amory Bradford CFR Orvil Dryfoos CFR David Halberstram CFR Walter Lippmann CFR L.E. Markel CFR H.L. Matthews CFR John Oakes CFR Adolph Ochs CFR Harrison Salisbury CFR A. Hays Sulzberger CFR A. Ochs Sulzberger CFR C.L. Sulzberger CFR H.L. Smith CFR Steven Rattner CFR Richard Burt CFR
TIME INC.
Ralph Davidson CFR Donald M. Wilson CFR Louis Banks CFR Henry Grunwald CFR Alexander Heard CFR Sol Linowitz CFR/TC Rawleigh Warner Jr. CFR Thomas Watson Jr. CFR
WASHINGTON POST/NEWSWEEK
Katherine Graham CFR Phillip Graham CFR Arjay Miller CFR N. deB. Katzenbach TC Frederick Beebe CFR Robert Christopher CFR Osborne Elliot CFR Phillip Geyelin CFR Kermit Lausner CFR Murry Marder CFR Malcomb Muir CFR Maynard Parker CFR George Will CFR Robert Kaiser CFR Meg Greenfield CFR Walter Pincus CFR Murray Gart CFR Peter Osnos CFR Don Oberdorfer CFR
DOW JONES & CO. (WALL ST. JOURNAL)
William Agee CFR J. Paul Austin TC Charles Mayer CFR Robert Potter CFR Richard Wood CFR Robert Bartley CFR Karen House CFR
NATIONAL REVIEW
Wm. F. Buckley Jr. CFR Richard Brookhiser CFR
WASHINGTON TIMES
Arnaud de Borchgrave CFR