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the worlds biggest social media platforms and news outlets are run by westerners

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CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was recently fired for ranting on the radio that the U.S. media is controlled by Jews, an old and pernicious stereotype. That he was fired is unsurprising and would seem to reaffirm the consensus view that, no, the media is not controlled by Jews, and even suggesting as much is morally wrong.

But Slate, that oh-so-contrarian Web publication, was not about to turn down an opportunity to run an outrageous headline on a dubious but high-traffic controversy. " Do Jews Really Control The Media?" asks an "explainer" article by Brian Palmer. Though the question may not seem to demand such a high level of serious analysis, Palmer felt compelled to ask of Sanchez, "Is he right? Do Jews control the media?" Slate's Palmer goes on to explore which industries are under the "control" of Jews, which is apparently measured by the ethnicity of its executives.

Maybe the movies, but not the news. If Sanchez was referring to people in the television news business, he's wrong. Not one of the major television news operations-Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News, or NBC News-is currently headed by a Jewish executive. (That includes Ken Jautz, the man who fired Sanchez.) Or at least none of these executives has talked about being Jewish in a public forum. The Internet is littered with rumors about various media moguls being Jewish, but few of those claims are backed by any evidence.

There are more Jews at the head of the country's major newspapers, but it's still a stretch to say these publications are controlled by them. Even in New York City, where around 12 percent of the population is Jewish, there isn't any indication of Jewish dominance. The Ochs Sulzberger family, which has controlled the New York Times for more than a century, is of Jewish origin. But current Executive Editor Bill Keller is not.

But there's an odd assumption in Palmer's analysis. as The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg points out, just because an organization or industry is populated with members of a particular ethnicity does not mean that ethnicity has unified and concerted control of that entire enterprise.

Even if all of the television news networks were indeed run by Jews, would this mean that they were run by "The Jews", by a monochromatic Jewish collective? Does the Jewishness of any given television executive represent the most essential truth of his or her being, the element that consciously or subconsciously shapes an entire worldview, and thus, American journalism?

This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire.

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Slate Earnestly Asks, 'Do Jews Control the Media?'

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English is the most common language in 2024

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Western countries, especially the United States and the European Union, have some of the largest economies in the world. The U.S. GDP remains the highest globally, and the EU collectively has significant economic output. This economic power translates to substantial influence over global trade and financial systems.

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In 2024, the United States had the largest economy in the world, with a gross domestic product of just under 29 trillion U.S. dollars. China had the second largest economy, at around 18.5 trillion U.S. dollars. Recent adjustments in the list have seen Germany's economy overtake Japan's to become the third-largest in the world in 2023, while Brazil's economy moved ahead of Italy's in 2024.

Global gross domestic product

Global gross domestic product amounts to almost 110 trillion U.S. dollars, with the United States making up more than one quarter of this figure alone. The 12 largest economies in the world includes all Group of Seven (G7) economies, as well as the four largest BRICS economies. The U.S. has consistently had the world's largest economy since the interwar period, and while previous reports estimated it would be overtaken by China in the 2020s, more recent projections estimate the U.S. economy will remain the largest by a considerable margin going into the 2030s.

The gross domestic product of a country is calculated by taking spending and trade into account, to show how much the country can produce in a certain amount of time, usually per year. It represents the value of all goods and services produced during that year. Those countries considered to have emerging or developing economies account for almost 60 percent of global gross domestic product, while advanced economies make up over 40 percent.

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In 2024, the United States had the largest economy in the world, with a gross domestic product of just under 29 trillion U.S.

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hollywood music. the west created the most popular music

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The word "troubadour" refers to a poet and musician singing tales of romance in 11th through 13th century France. Doug Weston, who founded the Troubadour in 1957 as a venue for folk artists and singer-songwriters, referred to the club's roster as "modern-day troubadours."

"The people who play our club are sensitive artists who have something to say about our times," he told the Los Angeles Times.

The Troubadour was a coffee shop on La Cienega before moving to its current location on Santa Monica Boulevard. It served as a launching pad for a number of folk acts and comedians throughout the '60s and '70s. Notable past performers include The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. Elton John was introduced by Neil Diamond here in 1970, marking his first U.S. show, the start of a six-night residency. The 2019 film Rocketman depicts Elton John's electrifying debut as one that literally lifted the audience off its feet-and that's how it felt to him at the time.

"My whole life came alive that night, musically, emotionally . . . everything," John later recalled to the Los Angeles Times. "It was like everything I had been waiting for suddenly happened."

That same year marked two key meetings in music and comedy history. Musicians Glenn Frey and Don Henley met while attending a show and decided to form what would eventually become The Eagles. The Eagles would later write the song "Sad Cafe," which appears on their 1979 album The Long Run, about the Troubadour. And though Roxy co-founder Lou Adler would later direct Cheech and Chong's stoner film Up in Smoke and film a "battle of the bands" sequence at his own club, he discovered the comedy duo at Troubadour's Monday Hootenanny in 1970. Tom Waits was also signed after a performance at the same weekly open mic.

It wasn't all mellow folk rock at the Troubadour. In 1962, Lenny Bruce was arrested for saying the word "schmuck" onstage. And in 1974, Harry Nilsson and John Lennon were both booted from the club for drunkenly heckling comedy duo the Smothers Brothers.

In the '80s, the venue began featuring new wave and heavy metal acts, including Metallica, Warrant and Guns N' Roses. Notably, GNR was signed by David Geffen after a performance at the Troubadour.

The '90s and aughts saw performances by even more emerging acts, including Pearl Jam, Korn, Radiohead, System of a Down, Fiona Apple, The Strokes, and Lily Allen.

No Doubt played a series of sold-out shows there in November of 1995 following the release of their Tragic Kingdom album. They were still small enough that, in a review of the show featured in the Los Angeles Times, they were referred to as a "local band."

Today, the Troubadour still attracts small and large acts of all genres, including big name performers who want to offer intimate or surprise performances to lucky fans. Check the Troubadour's event calendar online to see who's playing this week; you might just catch a future star.
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The Troubadour, Shaping Music History Since 1957 - Visit West Hollywood

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The Troubadour, West Hollywood's career-making live music venue, offers an intimate setting for both big names and emerging acts.

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Language: English is the lingua franca of international communication and business, largely due to the historical influence of British and American culture.

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Soccer is the most popular sport in the world 

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Facebook was originally founded in 2004 by Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The company was made public in 2012 – with Zuckerberg, the company’s CEO, the biggest sharedholder with 29.3% of Facebook’s Class A shares worth an estimated $54bn. The technical problem was blamed on a ‘faulty configuration change’, which saw users around the world left without Facebook from around 4.30pm UK time.

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Facebook has apologised after an outage which hit billions of users for over six hours on Monday night - and also affected other services including Instagram andWhatsApp.

'To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry,' Facebook engineering said in the statement.

'We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us.'

The technical problem was blamed on a 'faulty configuration change', which saw users around the world left without Facebook from around 4.30pm UK time.

The ever-popular social network is of course still one of the most used apps and services globally - but just who does own Facebook, and other social media and messaging services?

Here's what you need to know...

Who owns Facebook?

Facebook was originally founded in 2004 by Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Originally known as The Facebook, and intended for use by Harvard students, it gradually expanded to the wider world, and as of 2021 has 2.9bn monthly users.

The company was made public in 2012 - with Zuckerberg, the company's CEO, the biggest sharedholder with 29.3% of Facebook's Class A shares (worth an estimated $54bn (£39.6bn).

Other major shareholders include investment managers The Vanguard Group Inc, who have a 7.23% stake, investment advisors Fidelity Management and Research, with a stake of 5.09%, and another investment management group, T Rowe Price Associates, who have a 4.24% share.

Facebook has acquired 91 other companies across the world during its existence.

Who owns WhatsApp?

Facebook acquired Whatsapp for a deal worth $19bn (£13.9bn) back in 2014.

'Facebook Messenger is widely used for chatting with your Facebook friends, and WhatsApp for communicating with all of your contacts and small groups of people,' Mark Zuckerberg said of the deal.

'Since WhatsApp and Messenger serve such different and important uses, we will continue investing in both and making them each great products for everyone.'

WhatApp was founded in 2009 by former Yahoo! employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum.

Who owns Instagram?

Photo-sharing service Instagram is also owned by Facebook, who acquired the company in a $1bn (£734m) deal in 2012.

'We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience,' Zuckerberg explained.

'This is an important milestone for Facebook because it's the first time we've ever acquired a product and company with so many users. We don't plan on doing many more of these, if any at all.'

Instagram, founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, launched in 2010 originally as an iOS app for iPhone users, before being rolled out to Android in 2012 prior to its acquisition.

Who owns Twitter?

Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey - who was an undergraduate student at NYU at the time - along with Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in 2006, launching in July of that year.

It was born from the ashes of another company, Odeo, which allowed users to create, record and share podcasts - and was originally used as a service for employees of that company being being expanded.

The company is now a public company, with around 80% of its shares owned by private companies and investment management firms.

However Dorsey - who is Twitter's CEO - has the biggest share of the company at 2.25%.

Who owns TikTok?

Video-sharing site TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance.

It is an international version of the Chinese site Douyin, which was released to the Chinese market in 2016.

The TikTok app was released by the same developers in some parts of the world in 2017, though it wasn't available on iOS and Android worldwide until 2018, after ByteDance took over a similar app named musical.ly.

In November 2017, ByteDance paid a whopping sum to merge with musical.ly - a reported $1 Billion (£123 million) - which was a Shanghai-based start-up already popular with young music fans.

It's one of the fastest growing social media sites in the world, with an estimated 2bn downloads worldwide as of October 2020.

Who owns Snapchat?

Snapchat is owned by founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy - who founded the service with fellow Stanford University student Reggie Brown.

Brown is reported to have brought the idea for a disappearing photo app to the pair, who originally launched as Picaboo in 2011.

He was later ousted from the company when it was relaunched as Snapchat - and sued Spiegel and Murphy, settling for an estimated $157m (£115m), as well as a credit for the conceptual idea of the app.

As of March 2021 the service had an estimated 265m daily users worldwide.

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Social media and messaging have become a huge part of our lives - but who owns all of the main sites and services?

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This is a list of European cuisines. A cuisine is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions, often associated with a specific culture. European cuisine (also called "Western cuisine") refers collectively to the cuisines of Europe and other Western countries.

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Understanding the Agency of English Vernacular Across the Globe

Among researchers and language scholars, there is always the challenge of determining when, where, and how a language came into being-from earliest inception through functional practice. But concerning the English language, thorough investigations have unearthed evidence regarding Germanic invaders that settled in Britain between the fifth and sixth centuries, bringing their culture and, above all else, their vernacular (Durkin, 2020). And while this is one of the earliest accounts of influence that helped form the English language, little else is known about this period due to the scarcity of written records. Yet, the blending of the native language-that of the Anglo-Saxons-with Germanic invaders led to the formation of a language adopted by Alfred the Great in the ninth century, referred to as English (Durkin, 2020). All through Alfred's reign, texts were authored and archived, thus affording researchers ample evidence into the adoption and the transformation of words, phrases, and pronunciations into what the modern world would label as Old English.

Influence of English on International Communication

Language, Culture, and Power

English Dominance in Media

Reasons for English Dominance

For countless generations, immeasurable efforts in philosophy, sociology, and psychology have been conducted leveraging English speakers and reverberating ideas across time as academically anglophone ( Mikanowski, 2018). The concept of using a universal vocabulary and grammar system underpins not only the dominance of English in the world but optimizes the transfer of knowledge, the elevation of thought, and the progression of global learning and achievement. Although some may consider this to be a shift toward monolingualism, popular opinion among academics strongly advocates this direction to safeguard scientific enrichment, promote future discoveries, and ensure that next generations will enjoy endless benefits across the great expanse of the world.

Xue, J., & Zuo, W. (2013). English Dominance and Its Influence on International

Understanding the Agency of English Vernacular Across the Globe

Among researchers and language scholars, there is always the challenge of determining when, where, and how a language came into being-from earliest inception through functional practice. But concerning the English language, thorough investigations have unearthed evidence regarding Germanic invaders that settled in Britain between the fifth and sixth centuries, bringing their culture and, above all else, their vernacular (Durkin, 2020). And while this is one of the earliest accounts of influence that helped form the English language, little else is known about this period due to the scarcity of written records. Yet, the blending of the native language-that of the Anglo-Saxons-with Germanic invaders led to the formation of a language adopted by Alfred the Great in the ninth century, referred to as English (Durkin, 2020). All through Alfred's reign, texts were authored and archived, thus affording researchers ample evidence into the adoption and the transformation of words, phrases, and pronunciations into what the modern world would label as Old English.

Influence of English on International Communication

Language, Culture, and Power

English Dominance in Media

Reasons for English Dominance

For countless generations, immeasurable efforts in philosophy, sociology, and psychology have been conducted leveraging English speakers and reverberating ideas across time as academically anglophone ( Mikanowski, 2018). The concept of using a universal vocabulary and grammar system underpins not only the dominance of English in the world but optimizes the transfer of knowledge, the elevation of thought, and the progression of global learning and achievement. Although some may consider this to be a shift toward monolingualism, popular opinion among academics strongly advocates this direction to safeguard scientific enrichment, promote future discoveries, and ensure that next generations will enjoy endless benefits across the great expanse of the world.

Xue, J., & Zuo, W. (2013). English Dominance and Its Influence on International

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The Influential Power and Dominance of English

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Understanding the Agency of English Vernacular Across the GlobeBy Ian Ségal22 December 2020AbstractFor most people, the concept of language has been assumed-born and cultivated from early childhood through adult years, accepted, and usually overlooked. A degree of complacency is wrapped around communication, absent of care or interest of its roots.

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majority of Christianity's impact and growth comes from westerners due to their popularity and dominance.

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The Christian faith is a unique cornerstone of Western culture. It presided over the decline and collapse of the Roman Empire, from the migrations, invasions, and demographic shifts of the early medieval period, to the rise of urban centers and organized commerce. Through its many institutions, missionary activities, monasteries, religious orders, and universities, the Christian faith formed European culture and introduced a universal religion that would forever change the world. Many today, however, especially within the West, have begun to doubt Christianity's importance to Western civilization. There is no better time to take a step back and reassess the vital role of Christianity in forming our cultural inheritance. Thankfully we have the work of Christopher Dawson to assist us. Dawson, who has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century," analyzes the enormity of the contribution of Christianity to the West while questioning the value of secularism. For Dawson, the West can neither survive without the transformative qualities derived from the Christian faith nor be properly understood apart from its Christian foundations.

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advancements in technology and weapons such as nukes

social media- celebrities that state their fame in clothing brands in European continent. Royal family, invention of the internet, facebook, yahoo, google, sports in europeans example basketball in popularising this sport. biggest known religion Christianity.

Vehicles such as audio made in Germany, Ford-America, Tesla- Elon Musk which is also one of the richest man in the world Paintings of popular artists Pablo Picasso

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Microsoft is one of the biggest technology companies in the world. The benefits you can use are teams, powerpoint, word, outlook and many more.

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Cultural Influence: Western culture, including music, fashion, films, and literature, has a pervasive influence worldwide, shaping trends and lifestyles in many societies. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/cultural-influence