Now that Rick Sanchez put the issue up for discussion, Brian Palmer lays the rumors to rest:
Setting aside the propriety of Sanchez's claims, is he right? Do Jews control the media?
Maybe the movies, but not the news. If Sanchez was referring to people in the television news business, he's wrong. Not one of the major television news operations—Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News, or NBC News—is currently headed by a Jewish executive. (That includes Ken Jautz, the man who fired Sanchez.) Or at least none of these executives has talked about being Jewish in a public forum. The Internet is littered with rumors about various media moguls being Jewish, but few of those claims are backed by any evidence.
There are more Jews at the head of the country's major newspapers, but it's still a stretch to say these publications are controlled by them.
Had Sanchez instead talked about Arab control of the media, his comments would've flown under everyone's radar.
