CIVIL LIBERTIES: Jew-Baiting

Monday, Sep. 22, 1941

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The ex-hero was tacitly supported by Gerald Nye (see p. 13), who in his "investigation" of motion-picture "propaganda" also fomented antiSemitism. But nowhere in the land did a single eminent or respected citizen arise to defend the ex-hero's appeal to prejudice and bigotry.

^{* As far as the press is concerned, this charge is easily
disproved. The two big newspaper-chain owners are William Randolph
Hearst and Roy Wilson Howard, gentiles both. Biggest newspaper in New
York is rabid Isolationist Joseph M. Patterson's Daily News. Biggest
newspaper outside of New York is the Chicago Tribune, owned by Colonel
Robert R. McCormick. In New York City itself, where nearly one third of
all U.S. Jews live, the three morning papers are controlled by gentiles; one by
Jews (the New York Times, world-famed for impartiality); and four
evening papers are controlled by gentiles; one by Jews (the New York
Post). In the U.S. as a whole, Jews probably control less than their
theoretically proportionate share (4%) of the daily press.
In the vast field of magazines, they have practically no control or
ownership outside of Esquire-Coronet, Inc.}