152 WHO RULES AMERICA WHO RULES AMERICA 15 Roy H. Pollack, I. Owen Funderburg, and Andrew Sigler. Of twelve executive vice-presidents, six are Jews. They are the first three of the above-named directors plus: Irving K. Kessler, Herbert S. Schlosser (formerly president of NBC), and Eugene A. Sekulow. Finally, both the RCA treasurer, Melvin Cornfield, and the controller, Stanley N. Roseberry, are Jews. The Jewish influence on NBC's programming policies does not stop with the par' "t corporation. NBC itself has had a succession of Jewish chief executives. One of u,c most recent chief executives was Fred Silverman. He was replaced in 1981 by Grant Tinker, a Gentile; but the present vice-chairman of NBC is Irwin Segelstein, a Jew. Furthermore, the former vice-chairman, Richard Salant, who became a "general advisor" to NBC's top management in 1981 is a Jew. The situation is no different in NBC's news subsidiary. The president of NBC News (since March 1982), the man in charge of all of NBC's television and radio news programming, is Reuben Frank, also Jewish. The list of 137 NBC vice-presidents in the latest Broadcasting Cablecasting Yearbook reveals a heavy preponderance of the same tight-knit minority throughout the executive structure of the corporation-beginning with Lenore Cantor, Lucille Chazanoff, and Aaron Cohen and running through some forty more distinctly Jewish names, all immediately recognizable as Jewish by surname alone. The aforementioned "Big Three"«ABC, CBS, and NBC-have a virtual monopoly on network television broadcasting in the United States, and they account for most network broadcasting, as well as broadcasting, throughout the world. Their only significant competitor in the latter arena is Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS), which has 941 affiliated radio stations (but no TV stations) across the country. The president and chief executive officer of MBS is Martin Rubenstein, a Jew.6 Many naive members of the nation's TV and radio audience believe that they have the option of tuning into one of the noncommercial "educational" stations for objective, unbiased programming. Alas, the same minority interests have fastened their grip on America's "public" broadcasting even more tightly than on the commercial sector. The president of the Public Broadcasting Service is Jewish personality Lawrence Grossman (Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 10,1976, p. 14)7 The author of the best-selling American classic, TtieAuerbach Will, and Our Crowd, Stephen Birmingham, wrote: "broadcasting...the major networks are headed by Jews."° Stephen Birmingham is a descendant of prominent Jewish families in this country, and has studied and written about Jewish lifestyles and occupations. THE PRESS Controlling interest in the leading national daily newspaper, the New York Times, is held by the Sulzberger family. Founded by a Jewish newspaper baron, Adolph S. Ochs from Philadelphia, in 1896, the paper has gradually grown in size and influence. Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Adolph's son-in-law, succeeded him on his death in 1935. Thirty-one years later, the paper rests in the hands of his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. The company owns nine slightly smaller dailies, four weeklies, six magazines, two broadcasting companies, three book publishing companies, and part of three Canadian paper mills. The Times employs the nation's largest full-time news staff: 550 journalists in New York, 32 outside the U.S., 40 in Washington, and 19 throughout the country. One has to travel across the country and abroad to appreciate fully the influence and uniqueness of the Times? This, as syndicated columnist Nicholas Von Hoffman pointed out, is because the Times spends the kind of money on foreign correspondents that other papers, magazines, and networks will not.10 It is also because, "So few print or broadcast editors are able to make independent judgements of their own on the news, simply because of their distance from the source of news or their lack of knowledge on the subject, and prefer the safety of letting the nation's most prestigious paper do their decision-making for them." This, according to Von Hoffman, is particularly so on the Israeli issue, where any adverse publicity can bring down vociferous abuse on tlu editor from the nation's most meticulously organized lobby. There is no newspaper in the world that can compare with the New York Times for sheer coverage of news. both domestic and foreign.11 Another important influence the Times exerts stems from the often reported I'm that it has long been read by many of our elected officials, from the President down. They may curse it or toss it into the wastebasket, but they cannot entirely ignore it.' - Abe Rosenthal is fanatically devoted to the Times. He was first hired as a $12-; week stringer at New York City College, spent nine years as a foreign correspondent, and became metropolitan editor in 1963. Under the patronage of Sulzberger, he became managing editor in 1969 and was elevated to executive editor in 1977. He has ruthlessly shifted and rearranged the staff, installing his own men as editors, including Managing Editor Seymour Topping, Deputy Managing Editor Arthur Gelb, Assistant Managing Editor James Greenfield, News Editor Allan Siegal, and Foreign Editor Robert Semple. There has been a gradual disappearance of Christians from the staff; those who remain, like Washington Bureau Chief