THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 6, 1976 31
Magazine About American Media Refutes Agnew on 'Jewish Cabal'
the "celebrated one-man
school of journalism" at
New York's City College,
that at that school "where
the majority of my stu-
dents have been Jewish,
we always believed that we
are journalists first, Jews
second — that Jewishness
must never interfere with
a fair, unbiased reporting
of the news. I've noticed no
pro-Israel or pro-Zionist
tint in any of the Jewish-
owned media — if any-
thing, it's been the other
way around."
"It is safe to say that,
although the Jewish
media dismiss the Agnew
charges as absurd and
unfounded, they are
nonetheless sensitive —
very sensitive to them,"
Birmingham wrote.
Birmingham, whose
"Our Crowd" describing
New York's prominent
German Jews gained
wide attention, concluded
that what Agnew stated
is "a truism: yes, there
are, and have been, a
number of Jews in the
media. But, as in the case
of any obvious truism, the
next question is: so what?
What, one would love to
know, would Horace
Greeley, William Ran-
dolph Hearst, William
Allen White, Harold Ross,
or even Henry Luce have
had to say?"
The cover of "More,"
showing a caricature of
Agnew, emphasized "The
Jews in Agnew's 'Cabal' "
over photos of New York
Times publisher Arthur
Ochs Sulzberger,
Washington Post pub-
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
The monthly maga-
zine "More," which
specializes on the opera-
tions and personnel of
America's media, warns
that many Americans
will take "seriously"
Spiro T. Agnew's charges
against Jews in the press
even though "most"
media specialists regard
his views as untrue.
The publication, in its
current issue, carries
three articles that indi-
vidually and collectively
refute the disgraced
former vice president's
ims in his book and re-
cent interviews that "a
wish cabal" exists in
media, that it influ-
, –ces U.S. policy towards
support of Israel, and
plots favorable coverage
for the Jewish state.
The main article, by au-
thor Stephen Birmin-
gham, observes that "of
course the most impor-
tant question to be asked
is whether the fact of
Jews in the media affects
the media's treatment of
the news and, as Agnew
claims, foreign policy.
Most media experts and
observers feel that it does
not at all."
Birmingham quoted
Prof. Irving Rosenthal,
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lisher Kathryn Graham,
ABC's head Leonard Gol-
denson and CBS' chair-
man William Paley. In his
remarks, Agnew also had
referred to Julian Good-
man, NBC's head, in the
"cabal" but Birmingham
pointed out that "despite
Agnew's assumption,"
Goodman is not Jewish
but of "stock that has
been staunchly Pre-
sbyterian for genera-
tions" and was "raised a
Southern Baptist."
In another of "More's"
articles, Deirdre
Whiteside searched for
Agnew's motive and
quotes former Agnew
speechwriters William Sa-
fire and Victor Gold, Ben-
jamin R. Epstein of Bnai
Brith's Anti-Defamation
League, and Baltimore
City Controller Hyman A.
Pressman, once an Agnew
supporter. They variously
ascribed his motive to re-
venge because four Balti-
more businessmen helped
drive him from office; a
means to sell his book; his
activities in behalf of Arab
petro-dollar countries,
and because "this man has
made money his God."
"Whatever Agnew's
motives," Whiteside con-
cluded, "the controversy
refuses to go away. In
late June, President Ford
felt called upon to de-
nounce Agnew's remark
as 'wrong, both substan-
tially and morally.' "
Whiteside pointed out
that sales of Agnew's
novel, "The Canfield De-
cision," had "jumped"
after his interview with
Barbara Walters on
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — A
delegation of Israelis will
attend the International
Conference on World Peace
and Social Reform to be
held Aug. 24-29 in Anaheim,
Calif.
Leading the delegation
will be Yehoshafat Give'on,
a professor of mathematics
at Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev. The conference is
sponsored by members of
the applied philosophy of
Dianetics and Scientology.
NBC's "Today" show and
added, "Today was only
the first stop in Agnew's
cross-country road show
that resulted in appear-
ances and interviews
with most major media."
The Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency recently
distributed a three-part
series that reported the
comments of former
Agnew associates about
his motives — essentially
as "More" now reports
them — and The
Washington Post's cam-
paign critical of Israel
and American Jewish na-
tional organizations.
Accompanying More's
presentations are photos
of "25 Jews in the News"
hat the magazine cap-
tioned "unlikely con-
spirators." They include
Miss Walters, Henry
Grunwald, managing
editor of Time magazine;
William Shawn, editor in
chief of New York; Jann
Wenner, editor/founder
of Rolling Stone; A.M.
Rosenthal, managing
editor of The New York
Times; columnists Sa-
fire, Anthony Lewis,
Joseph Kraft and David
Broder; Marvin Stone,
editor of U.S. News and
World Report; Jack Ro-
senthal and Max Fran-
kel, editors at The New
York Times; Lee Eisen-
berg, editor of Esquire;
Dorothy Schiff, publisher
of The New York Post;
S.I. Newhouse, publisher
of the Newhouse news-
papers; editor Thomas
Morgan of the Village
Voice; Newsweek editor
Edward Kosner, and Wal-
ter Annenberg, TV Guide
publisher.
Ironically, The New
York Times July 9 re-
ported that Annenberg
was host to Agnew at his
California estate at a wed-
ding party he gave for
Frank Sinatra, the singer,
and his bride, former
model Barbara Blakely,
ex-wife of Zeppo Marx.
In the third article in
"More," which asked
"Who's a Jew?" the
magazine noted that
"since most of the Jews
Agnew includes in his
cabal are decidedly as-
similationist, we attemp- to charities in those
ted to gauge their per- years. Mrs. Graham's
sonal identification with father was Jewish but her
Jewish affairs by an mother was not.
index other than heredity
— the extent of their fi-
nancial contributions to
Jewish causes."
This article, unsigned,
named William Paley as
Americana Complex
the "most forthcoming,"
noting that during the
1, 2, 3, 4
past six years he has
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