A local blogger is using this ‘media bias’ poster to illustrate an article complain about media bias. The look of the person in the poster makes me think this was intend (originally) as a not so subtle swipe against Jewish media influence.
Does anyone know the origin of this poster. It looks (guessing) like it was done between 1930-1950 or so. What is its origin?
I don’t know the origin of it, but it doesn’t strike me as particularly anti-semitic, it just seems like a general warning against horizontal integration of print media. However, if you were to find that all of the publications named in the cartoon had Jewish owners at the time of its creation you might be onto something.
Like An Gadaí, i don’t see much in the way of anti-semitism here.
The date is a bit hard to pin down. It certainly looks like something that might have been produced around WWII, or in the couple of decades after. There are some more specific issues, though.
On the one hand, some evidence suggests that it must be from after 1942. One of the papers in the poster is the San Francisco Times, and according to the Library of Congress Historic American Newspapers database, the SF Times began publication in June, 1942.
On the other hand, another paper in the poster is the New York Herald, and according to the Library of Congress, there was no paper of that name published after the 1920s. There was, however, a New York Herald Tribune published until the 1960s.
Why does he have the Obama logo on his shirt?
Good catch. I didn’t notice that.
What we could have here is simply a modern poster fashioned to look like an older piece of artwork. Or, we could have an older poster that has been modified. Any of this would be easy enough to do.
That’s an Obama logo? Hard to tell.
When did the specific term ‘media bias’ come into use? It doesn’t seem very 1920s to me, for example.
I’m not sure, but I think that guy’s supposed to look like George Soros.
I’m betting this. There are lots of tiny details (how the pipe smoke is drawn, the particular way that hatching is used for shading) that used to be common and now aren’t. If it’s a contemporary drawing it’s been done by someone with an obsessive desire to replicate an old-fashioned drawing style.
a so-called jewish-looking man is a non-entity. funny thing is the only jews who look like that are found in the media.
You’d have to know the context to get a better handle on the biases of the cartoonist/publisher.
As regards anti-Semitism, all you have at this point is the long-running meme of They Control The Media, and the mildly suggestive hooked nose.
I, too, am going with modified old work or deliberate homage. And Sunspace, “media bias” would be a relatively recent usage – pre-60s you’d just refer to “the Press” IIRC.
Since this is high in Google results for the photo, thought I’d chime in and point out that it is indeed a Nazi-era illustration that is Antisemitic, but the star of David has been edited out.
And Andrew Breitbart is involved! What a surprise.
Nice.
Anyone who speaks German who can translate the original caption? I’m just curious.
And he got a slight nose job too, it appears.
The nose thing is a Jewish stereotype, so yes, on a certain level it has anti-Jewish overtones.
“Der Herr der U.S.A.-Meinung” = The leader of U.S.A. opinion
“Ein Informationsministerium fuer U.S.A. - Wie heisst? - A neuer Name fuer die alte Sache” = An information ministry for the U.S.A. - What is it? - A new name for the old thing.
