The International Jew, the world's foremost problem [volume I] : $b being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920Ford, Henry
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The International Jew, the world's foremost problem [volume I] : $b being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
A certain newspaper, as a mere matter of news, published an excerpt from
one of THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT articles. Next day a number of
advertising accounts dropped for lack of copy. Inquiry developed the
fact that the reticent advertisers were all Jewish firms and the cause
of their action was the really unimportant excerpt which the paper
published. It developed also that the advertising agent who handled all
the advertising for those Jewish firms was himself a Jew who also held
an office in a Jewish secret society, which office was concerned
exclusively with the control of newspapers in the matter of Jewish
publicity. It was this man who dealt with the editor. A lame editorial
retraction followed which faintly praised the Jews. The advertising was
returned to the paper, and it is just a question whether that editor was
rightly handled or not. Certainly he has been made to feel the power.
But the diplomacy of it was bad. The editor, along with hundreds of
others, has only been given the proper background for estimating the
Jewish power in its wider reaches.
This is not to say that every editor should enter upon a campaign to
expose the secret power. That is a matter for personal decision. Every
editor, however, is so situated that he can see certain things, and he
ought to see them, note them, and inwardly digest them.
Jewish publicity in response to these articles is very easy to get in
almost any newspaper. Some have fallen most lamentably for lying
statements. Others have opened their columns to propaganda sent out from
Jewish sources. That is all very well. But the Gentile interest in the
question has been largely ignored, even in cases where the editors are
awake to the whole Question. This too affords a vantage from which the
average editor can view what is transpiring in this country.
If a list of the Jewish owners, bondholders and other interests in our
newspapers should be published the list would be impressive. But it
would not account for the widespread control of the Press as observed in
this country. Indeed, it would be unfair in such a connection as this to
list some of the Jewish-owned newspapers of the United States, because
their owners are fair and public-spirited servants of the people.
Actual ownership does not often account for much in a newspaper.
Ownership in the newspaper business in not always synonymous with
control.
If you wish to know the control of the newspaper, look to its attorney
and the interests he serves; look to the social connections of its chief
editors; look to the advertising agents who handle the bulk of Jewish
advertising; and then look to the matter of the paper's partisanship or
independence in politics.
Newspaper control of the Press by the Jews is not a matter of money. It
is a matter of keeping certain things out of the public mind and putting
certain things into it.
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