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We've tried to have an individual or a team to update WRA? for years with disappointing results. But I will put here the article published yesterday by Dr. Kevin MacDonald that addresses the latest socking developments in Jewish control of mass media, including of Internet media that WRA? touched on 20 years ago. Read carefully: https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2 ... ial-media/
The Billionaire Trump Supporters (Larry and David Ellison)
Who Will Soon Own the News — and Important Social Media
September 21, 2025
by Kevin MacDonald
I recently finished writing a summary of Jewish ownership of the media for the revised edition of The Culture of Critique, but it’s looking like it needs a major update already. Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle whose net worth is north of $350 billion, and his son David are buying up media properties. They are Jewish and they are Trump supporters, so the mainsteam media (including CBS and CNN) would likely become more (neo)conservative. Notice that the names mentioned as having prominent roles are also Jewish—Bari Weiss, designated for a “senior position at CBS,” and Kenneth Weinstein of the Hudson Institute, the designated ombudsman.
Bari Weiss is a former New York Times columnist and a Jewish patriot. Here she discusses anti-Semitism:
Since then [the making of Jud Süss during World War II], the myth of the wily Jewish manipulator of those in power continues to persist in various forms. During the Iraq War, it became common to blame Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith — Bush administration figures who happened to be Jewish — for a military campaign that had been ordered by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. In the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump blamed “globalists” with names like Lloyd Blankfein and George Soros for America’s economic woes.
No mention of the close personal and family ties that Perle, Wolfowitz, and Feith have to Israel or their involvement in promoting false intelligence accusing Iraq of having WMD in the lead-up to the Iraq war; or the close affinity of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld had to Jewish interests throughout their careers—except Bush who was a babe in the woods on foreign policy; all of which can be perused here.
The following is from my review of Jacob Heilbrunn’s They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons:
Heilbrunn also has some nice nuggets on George Bush’s naiveté in the area of foreign policy. The first time [Richard Perle] met Bush, he immediately sensed that he was different from his father. Two things were clear to Perle: one was that Bush didn’t know much about foreign policy and another was that he wasn’t too embarrassed to confess it. Like Wolfowitz, Perle admired Bush’s ability, as he saw it, to cut to the heart of the matter rather than become mesmerized by Washington policy talk. (p. 230) The fact that Bush was a babe in the woods on foreign policy was seen as a plus by the neocons. “In August 1999 an excited Wolfowitz told me over lunch . . . that Bush had the ability to penetrate the dense fog of foreign policy expertise to ask a simple question. ‘Tell me what I need to know? [sic]’ Bush, Wolfowitz said, was ‘another Scoop Jackson’” (p. 230)—a comment that certainly doesn’t reflect well on Jackson. Although Heilbrunn states that we can never know for certain what was going on in Bush’s brain in the days and months after 9/11, his comment that Bush “moved further and further into the web that the neoconservatives had woven around him” (p. 235) seems reasonable.
Bush was in way over his head and was a sitting duck for the neocons. And a big part of the web they wove consisted of falsified or cherry-picked intelligence reports engineered by Douglas Feith, David Wurmser and Abram Schulsky, and presided over by Paul Wolfowitz. As to the other “Christians” who actually made the decision to invade Iraq, Heilbrunn notes that “the movement’s non-Jewish members were largely bound to the group by a shared commitment to the largest, most important Jewish cause: the survival of Israel” (p. 69). This may be correct in some cases (quite possibly Henry Jackson). But “it is often quite difficult to separate such sentiments from the personal and professional attractions of being involved in neoconservative networks.”
Weiss continues:
But the biggest “Jew” today in the demonology of modern anti-Semitism is the Jewish state, Israel. While there are perfectly legitimate criticisms that one can make of Israel or the actions of its government — and I have never been shy about making them [where she describes herself (and Bret Stephens) as “a Zionist fanatic of unhinged proportions”— those criticisms cross the line into anti-Semitism when they ascribe evil, almost supernatural powers to Israel in a manner that replicates classic anti-Semitic slanders.
Could Israel possibly be any more evil than what they are displaying in Gaza?
And Weiss displays the typical Jewish affinity for non-Whites who come to the West (not to Israel). Horus:
“The far right says we are the greatest trick the devil has ever played. We appear to be white people. We look like we’re in the majority, we’re incredibly successful, but in fact… we’re disloyal to real, pure, white America. And in fact, we’re loyal to Black people and brown people and Muslims and immigrants.” – Bari Weiss laying it out in 2023.
Horus continues:
From a conversation on “How to Fight Antisemitism in the Arab World.” – fdd.org/events/2022/01/…
Bari Weiss’ Free Press is the biggest thing on Substack, featured by Substack itself and suggested to readers in the Explore section.
[Darryl] Cooper blasted a hole in their walls and they fired back with frowns and weary sighing. Being termed the ‘barbarian right’ by a twerp like Sohrab Amari just doesn’t matter. Being likened to a Nazi by Niall Ferguson is more funny than frightening. Cooper laughed at them and pressed on, becoming more radical and incisive in the months since. His enemies were organised by the grand dame of the most boring section of Substack, Bari Weiss, who deemed the articles by Andrew Roberts and Victor Davis Hanson so vital to the cause of anti-fascism that she paywalled them. Baron Roberts likes to boast about how much wonga he makes as an unctuary to the saviour, but we can assume that all the audiences he’s ever had amount to a lot less than Cooper’s on that one day.
But one could argue, as I have, that none of this matters because the legacy media is dying anyway. It really doesn’t matter if CBS and CNN become neocon outlets. The other, perhaps larger problem is that they are also a major part of the consortium that is in the process of buying TikTok which has a pervasive presence among young people. So the Ellisons intend to expand their reach well beyond the legacy media. As Mr. Cohan notes in the following article, Ellison is about “to become one of the most powerful media and entertainment moguls America has ever seen.”
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The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the NewsBy William D. Cohan; Mr. Cohan is a founding partner of Puck and a former Wall Street banker.
Larry Ellison is already a major stakeholder in CBS and Paramount. Now CNN, HBO and a major share of TikTok are in his sights. If all goes as anticipated, this tech billionaire, already one of the richest men in the world and a founder of Oracle, is poised, at 81, to become one of the most powerful media and entertainment moguls America has ever seen.
For the rest of us, the effect of Mr. Ellison’s gambit could be every bit as consequential, if not more so, than what happened a generation ago when Rupert Murdoch brought his brand of Down Under snark and cynicism to create what has become Fox News, intensifying our political polarization.
Mr. Ellison’s expected incursion into Hollywood and Big Media, if successful, could also go well beyond what other tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff have attempted through their acquisitions of The Washington Post and Time magazine, respectively. For those men, the acquisitions were more like expensive hobbies.
Mr. Ellison is up to something very different: transforming himself into a media magnate. Along with his son, David, he could soon end up controlling a powerful social media platform, an iconic Hollywood movie studio and one of the largest content streaming services, as well as two of the country’s largest news organizations. Given Mr. Ellison’s friendship with, and affinity for, Donald Trump, an increasingly emboldened president could be getting an extraordinarily powerful media ally — in other words, the very last thing our country needs right now.
It all begins for Mr. Ellison with David’s recent acquisition of what is now known as Paramount Skydance, bought with a small part of Larry’s more than $350 billion fortune. That deal, which included an investment from the private equity firm RedBird Capital Partners, combined the old Paramount Global with Skydance Media, the film production and entertainment company David founded in 2010.
Within weeks of the August closing of the deal, it was clear that the Ellisons were serious about making Paramount Skydance a major new media force. They signed a seven-year, $7.7 billion deal for CBS and Paramount to broadcast and to stream the Ultimate Fighting Championship, whose chief executive spoke at the 2024 Republican National Convention and is a longtime Trump supporter.
The Ellisons have also made no secret of their intention to move CBS News to the right. They are negotiating to acquire The Free Press, a heterodox publication co-founded by Bari Weiss that prioritizes criticism of “woke” culture, and put Ms. Weiss in a senior position at CBS News. The Ellisons also hired as the CBS ombudsman Kenneth Weinstein, the former chief executive of the conservative Hudson Institute. See where this is going, and fast?
Then, if all goes according to plan, Mr. Trump could soon hand an 80 percent stake in TikTok, the powerful social media platform, to the existing shareholders, among them KKR and General Atlantic, plus a new consortium that includes Mr. Ellison’s Oracle and a16z, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm whose co-founder Marc Andreessen is close with the administration.
There’s more: The Ellisons are also, reportedly, preparing a bid — of perhaps $80 billion, according to some estimates — for Warner Bros. Discovery, the media conglomerate that controls such jewels as HBO Max, the Warner Bros. movie studio and CNN.
If Paramount Skydance follows through with an all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, it is likely to win the prize. Few other companies out there want all of Warner Bros. Discovery and few of those would be able to compete with the Ellisons’ cash. Regulators under a different presidential administration might have objected to the deal because of the concentration of Hollywood studios and the combination of CBS and CNN, but few expect the Ellisons to run into similar trouble. In the end, Warner Bros. Discovery may have little choice but to take Larry’s money and run.
There will be plenty of jobs lost as a result of the “synergies” that the Ellisons will promise investors they will find. That will be painful. But of even greater consequence from the combination of these assets under the control of Larry Ellison will be the expectation — and probably the reality — that these important media outlets will, like Fox News, march toward a more Trump-friendly worldview.
Who knows why the Ellisons seem to be moving in this direction. Is it good for business? Is it just easier to bend the knee to Mr. Trump? Do they really believe in the Trump agenda and all his meshugas?
No matter their motives, two independent journalistic voices, CBS News and CNN, could soon be combined into something potentially almost unrecognizable, something way too close to what is served up on a daily basis by the Murdochs. And that will put yet another chink in the fragile armor that is America’s democracy.