Jewish Media Influence
in Sweden and Finland
http://jewishtribalreview.org/sweden.htm
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The logic is that all Gentiles criticizing Jews do so, always, without
any
real reason except for an irrational, pathologic hatred. These
anti-Semitic
Gentiles further blame Jews for all the bad things happening to them in
the world.
Well, what if we apply that logic to Jews, what do we have? Jews are
constantly blaming Gentiles for being anti-Semitic whenever they are
having any
problems.
Dear Sir,
First of all I would like to laud you for an exhaustive and
well-prepared
site. You have certainly gone through the Jewish question thoroughly
before
compiling your observations and analysis. Reading your This week's
Jewish News as
usual today there was one piece of news that made my face wreathed in
smiles.
The piece of news concerned how the Jewish community of Lithuania
accused LNK
television for anti-Semitism.
Well, the far too familiar irony is that the LNK, as stated in the
article is
owned by the Bonnier family, based in my country of origin, Sweden.
Worth
mentioning then is that the Bonniers are Jewish themselves. Bonnier is
a taken
name; originally the family was named Hirschel. Not only is the Bonnier
family
Jewish and not only do they own LNK, but they are the far most
influential
media group in Sweden and in Finland.
Of the seven largest daily newspapers in Sweden, the seven with a daily
circulation of over 100,000, the Bonnier family owns four, Dagens
Nyheter (the
Daily News), Expressen (the Express), Sydsvenska Dagbladet (the
Southern Swedish
Daily News) and Dagens Industri (the Industry of Today). The largest of
the
private channels in Sweden is TV4. The Bonnier family directly holds
21,6% of TV4
and through their ownership of the Finnish based Alma media company
they hold
an additionally 23,4%, totalling up 45% and a virtual control. As head
of TV4
we find the Jew Jan Scherman. Through Alma Media, Bonnier also controls
MTV3,
the most popular channel in Finland with 39,1% of the total viewing
time (in
2001) and Subtv, the third largest commercial television channel in
Finland,
aiming mainly at young adults.
Apropos Finland, Bonnier also owns 23% of MTV in that country. In
Finland,
Bonnier also controls the leading daily Iltalehti and Kauppalehti,
Finland's
largest business media with a circulation of 85.000 per day. Bonnier
also control
the printing house Lehdentekijät, that produces 40 regularly published
magazines in Finland. In addition to that they own five regional
papers, 15 local
papers and nine free-distribution papers in Finland alone. They further
control
the Baltic News Service, the leading news bureau in the Baltic region,
providing the world with news about the Baltic with a Bonnier touch.
Beside the Bonnier family in Sweden there is the Jew Peter Hjörne
(Kaplan),
owner and chief editor of Göteborgs-Posten (the Gothenburg Post; GP),
the
fourth largest newspaper in Sweden with a circulation of 253,700,
reaching 600,000
readers daily. GP is furthermore the only newspaper in Sweden's second
city,
Gothenburg. Hjörne is also the owner of two local newspapers,
Bohuslänningen
(32.400) and Strömstads tidning (5,200); both distributed in the
Swedish
north-west coast area. In addition he controls 22% of Liberala
tidningars konsortium
(the consortium of liberal newspapers) and thereby Nerike Allehanda
(The
eighth largest newspaper in Sweden with a circulation of 66,300),
Motala
tidning/Vadstena tidning (12,800), Bergslagsposten (10,600) and Nya
Ludvika tidning
(9,500). Finally he also holds 9% of Hallandsposten (31,000).
Hjörne is a part of the old Jewish establishment in Gothenburg and has
his
way to influence the Gentiles of that city. For instance, when the Jew
Steven
Spielberg©ˆs movie Schindler©ˆs List reached the screens Hjörne
personally paid
so all senior high school students would see it. The Bonnier family
owns 30%
and Hjörne owns 10% of The Swedish News-agency Tidningarnas
Telegrambyrå (the
Swedish Central News Agency), the mainly news source for the none-local
news
stories in most minor papers in Sweden.
The largest newspaper in Sweden is Aftonbladet (the Evening Post),
jointly
owned by the Swedish Labour Union and the Norwegian Schibstedt company.
The
chief editor, however, is the Jewess Helle Klein, great granddaughter
of the
former grand rabbi of Stockholm, Rabbi Gottlieb Klein. Her father,
Ernst Klein, is
influential in Swedish media as well. 1990-1999 he was the chief editor
of
Östgöta Correspondenten, the ninth largest newspaper in Sweden, and
now he sits
on its board. He furthermore is president of Svensk Presshistorisk
Förening
(Swedish association of press history).
Beside Klein there are several Jewish staffers working at Aftonbladet.
In other words, of the seven largest news papers in Sweden, six are
either
owned by or edited by Jews. And please note, there are fewer than
20,000 Jews in
Sweden making up roughly 0.2% of the total population. Actually, I
could go
on and on describing the Jewish media influence in Sweden but I guess
you see
where I am heading. That LNK or Bonnier would be anti-Semitic is about
the most
ridiculous I have heard. Keep up the good work!
Regards, M
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Lithuanian Jewish community blames LNK television for anti-Semitism,
Interfax, October 23, 2003
"The Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL) has demanded that the private
TV
channel LNK stop the "anti- Semitic propaganda" in its programs, JCL
Chairman
Simonas Alperavicius told Interfax on Wednesday. JCL has sent LNK's
managers,
Swedish media group Bonnier, which owns the station, and the Swedish
media
community an open letter saying that "the authors of the humorous
program Dviracio
Zynios (Bicycle News), pretending to engage in parodies, incites
spectators
against the Jewish people," Alperavicius said. This was especially
clear in the
program dealing with the September visit of Israeli Knesset Chairman
Reuven
Rivlin to Vilnius. "When the humorous issues of this TV channel concern
the
Jewish theme, a character parodying a Jew is always presented as a
swindler or
thief trying to get rich in a dishonest way - how long are we going to
tolerate
this?" Alperavicius said. Rivlin's statements in Lithuania "have evoked
a tide
of intolerance and anti-Semitism, and websites have seen over four
thousand
anti-Semitic remarks that were beyond any standards of civilized
dialogue," he
said. "In this situation, the escalation of negative stereotypes on a
TV
channel's programs could influence the state of mind in unhealthy
people and
encourage some politicians to make irresponsible statements or even
verbal attacks
against Lithuanian citizens of Jewish origin," the letter says. Israeli
Knesset
speaker Reuven Rivlin, during his September visit, was categorical
about the
responsibility of Lithuanians for slaughtering Jews during the Nazi
occupation,
which caused a controversial response. In particular, Seimas Chairman
Arturas
Paulauskas told Lithuanian radio that Rivlin's visit "was not something
that
could serve the improvement of our relations or better understanding of
our
positions."
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M's Follow-up:
... [T]here is a Jew named Robert Aschberg in Sweden who wields a great
lot
of power in our media. He owns the largest production company in Sweden
called
Strix Television and produces programs for every major channel,
especially TV3
where almost all programs that aren’t Hollywood produced sitcoms,
talk shows
(Ricky Lake and Jerry Springer) or bad movies comes from Strix. It was
Strix
by the way that first came up with the idea of the show Survivor, now
broadcasted also in the USA. Aschberg himself is the head of several of
these usually
noisy and chaotic shows and has thus been called Sweden’s Michel
Friedman. His
maternal grandfather is the banker Olof Aschberg who helped finance the
Russian revolution and his brother, Richard Aschberg, works at
Aftonbladet (the
Evening Post). Robert Aschberg is further an important financer of
eXpo, a Swedish
version of the ADL, while it however is not an exclusively Jewish
organization.
To analyze the Jewish influence in Sweden is a delicate matter, much
due to
the fact that the influence in many regards is indirect