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Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza

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524 points mhga | 10 comments | 08 Jul 25 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 1.056s | source | bottom
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chvid ◴[08 Jul 25 03:06 UTC] No.44496586[source]▶
This goes on all over western media not only the bbc.
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1. defrost ◴[08 Jul 25 07:27 UTC] No.44497868[source]▶
You're not the only one ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly3zr8p46eo

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-15/nsw-antisemitism-crim...

Fake terror plots became criminal currency for a while in Australia.

2. k4rli ◴[08 Jul 25 07:36 UTC] No.44497916[source]▶
Which part was antisemitic and which part was the conspiracy? The ownership is factual.
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3. defrost ◴[08 Jul 25 07:54 UTC] No.44498002{3}[source]▶
What are the 'facts' about ownership "all over western media"?
4. mondojesus ◴[08 Jul 25 10:28 UTC] No.44498714[source]▶
It could be because your comment is too vague, personally I don't understand what you mean. Who are the ownership/leadership of media companies?
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5. lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[08 Jul 25 12:51 UTC] No.44499481[source]▶
I can see how it’s read that way but people really do seem to forget that billionaires buy media companies as an investment. It’s not a strictly financial investment, either; they get to shape public opinion with them.

How many people know that Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post? How many people know that MSNBC is owned by Comcast? How many people know that Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Post are all owned by Rupert Murdoch? How many UK citizens know that he also owns Sky News and The Times of London? How many people have heard the name Rupert Murdoch? (Everybody knows Elon Musk owns Twitter. Why do people say he bought an election again? How did that happen?)

They have a point and it is not anti-Semitic. The people who own the means to shape public opinion are exclusively in the billionaire class.

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6. leereeves ◴[08 Jul 25 14:58 UTC] No.44500611[source]▶
I saw this in a comment here recently and thought it was informative about this topic:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-oe-stein...

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7. dlubarov ◴[08 Jul 25 16:07 UTC] No.44501327{3}[source]▶
Why would Bezos / Washington Post be an example of pro-Israel bias?
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8. lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[08 Jul 25 16:36 UTC] No.44501647{4}[source]▶
Well, it's not. It's an example of a billionaire-owned media company.
9. defrost ◴[09 Jul 25 01:30 UTC] No.44505536{3}[source]▶
The thread topic is News media, not Hollywood.

Global news media is dominated by Rupert Murdoch (not Jewish) and while the second tier lesser Murdochs are mostly rich billionaires not many are Jewish.

eg: Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (recent chair of The New York Times company) is neither Jewish by birth—according to traditional Jewish law—nor by choice. (He was raised Episcopalian, his mother’s faith.)

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10. leereeves ◴[09 Jul 25 11:08 UTC] No.44508543{4}[source]▶
News media isn't separate from Hollywood. Disney owns ABC. Paramount Global owns CBS. CNN is owned by Warner Bros Discovery. NBC Universal owns NBC, MSNBC, and Telemundo; they also own Universal Pictures. All the major US news networks are owned by companies that also own Hollywood studios, except for Fox, which sold its studio to Disney recently.

Murdoch (owner of Fox, Sky, NY Post, and WSJ, among others) gets a lot of (negative) attention as a dissenting voice, but I'd hardly say he dominates news media.

And couldn't you find a better second example than someone who is only technically not Jewish, because his father is Jewish, not his mother? His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather (all Jewish) previously ran the NY Times.