Council on Foreign Relations

Ruling Class Journalists and Propagandists

Author: Mordechai Zember Updated on April 24, 2006
*= former CFR member; does not appear on 2005 CFR roster

Television:
ABC Barbara Walters Diane Sawyer Juju Chang Jim Sciutto Lynn Sherr 20/20 Tamala Edwards *George Stephanopoulos *Ted Koppel Susan Robinson King former correspondent C. Robert Zelnick former correspondent NBC Brian Williams - anchor Andrea Mitchell (Alan Greenspans wife) Katie Couric NBC Today Alan S. Murray co-host of Capital Report on CNBC Tom Brokaw retired; currently a director of CFR Marvin Kalb former moderator of Meet The Press Michael D. Mosettig former producer of NBC Nightly News and NBC Today Show *David Brinkley CBS Katie Couric designated CBS News anchor Dan Rather 60 Minutes; former anchor Lesley Stahl 60 Minutes *Edward R. Bradley 60 Minutes Martha Teichner CBS News Sunday Morning Marquita Pool-Eckert senior producer of CBS Sunday Morning Marshall Loeb - columnist for CBSMarketWatch.com and commentator on CBS radio Lowell A. Bergman former 60 Minutes producer George Crile III producer/reporter for 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II Neeraj Khemlani producer of 60 Minutes Barbara Cochran former Washington bureau chief *Charles Collingwood Marlene Sanders former producer and correspondent David A. Andelman former correspondent CNN Paula Zahn (former FOX anchor, former CBS anchor) Kathryn Kitty Pilgrim Sanjay Gupta medical correspondent David B. Ensor Peter L. Bergen Garrick Utley former host of NBCs Meet the Press Judy Woodruff former correspondent April A. Oliver fired by CNN for her Operation Tailwind investigation

FOX Robert Anthony Tony Snow Linda J. Vester Morton Kondracke Beltway Boys Mansoor Ijaz terrorism analyst PBS Jim Lehrer - anchor Margaret G. Warner co-anchor Michael Getler omsbudman Joan Ganz Cooney producer of Sesame Street Deborah Amos NPR and ABC Daniel Schorr NPR, All Things Considered, former New York Times journalist *Robert L. McNeill - retired Michael D. Mosettig former producer of PBS MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour *Bill D. Moyers retired

Magazines:
Newsweek Jonathan Alter senior editor and columnist Christopher S. Dickey Paris bureau chief Dorinda Elliott former correspondent Nisid Hajari managing editor of Newsweek International Michael Hirsh senior editor *Joe Klein Tamara Lipper Marcus Mabry a senior editor Jane Bryant Quinn contributing editor Elizabeth Lally Weymouth - columnist *George F. Will contributing editor and columnist Fareed Zakaria - Newsweek International and ABC Time, Inc. *Hedley Donovan former editor-in-chief Joel Dreyfuss senior editor of Fortune magazine Charles R. Eisendrath former correspondent Dorinda Elliott former assistant managing editor *Henry A. Grunwald former editor-in-chief Stephen Handelman - columnist Stanley Karnow former chief correspondent for Time and Life Louis Kraar former Fortune magazine correspondent Bernard Krisher former Time-Asia propagandist *Henry R. Luce former editor-in-chief and founder of Time and Life Marguerite Michaels Midwest bureau chief Norman Pearlstine current editor-in-chief Jerrold Schecter former correspondent Others Jodie T. Allen managing editor of U.S. News & World Report William L. Allen former editor-in-chief for National Geographic David A. Andelman Executive Editor of Forbes.com David Bosco senior editor of Foreign Policy *William F. Buckley, Jr. - National Review Arnaud de Borchgrave former editor of Insight magazine *Steven A. Emerson - former CNN reporter; author of American Jihad James M. Fallows national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly Nathan Gardels editor of New Perspectives Quarterly and Global Viewpoint Philip Gourevitch staff writer for The New Yorker Nikolas K. Gvosdev executive director of The National Interest Roger Hertog - The New Republic Hendrik Hertzberg Managing Director of The New Yorker

Edward Klein - Parade magazine; author of "The Truth About Hillary" James Klurfeld columnist for Newsday Morton Kondracke editor of Roll Call *Irving Kristol Public Interest, godfather of neo-conservatism Lewis H. Lapham editor of Harpers magazine Karl E. Meyer editor of World Policy Journal Lucia Mouat former UN correspondent for Christian Science Monitor Patrick J. ORourke correspondent for The Atlantic and contributing editor at The Weekly Standard Daniel Pipes - publisher of Middle East Quarterly Stephen Schlesinger publisher of World Policy Journal Andrew L. Shapiro The Nation magazine Stanley K. Sheinbaum publisher of New Perspectives Quarterly Stephen G. Smith former editor of U.S. News & World Report R. Emmett Tyrrell - American Spectator Vijay Vaithweeswaran correspondent for The Economist Katrina vanden Heuvel editor of The Nation Jacob M. Weisberg editor of Slate magazine *Leon Wieseltier - The New Republic Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report Charlie Rose - Charlie Rose Show Bernard Kalb retired

Newspapers:
New York Times Elizabeth Becker agricultural writer Ethan Bronner deputy foreign editor Lynette Clemetson - correspondent Ann Crittenden former reporter Barbara Crossette former UN bureau chief Thomas L. Friedman columnist Pranay Gupte former correspondent Bernard Gwertzman foreign affairs *Joseph Kraft former columnist Nicholas D. Kristof columnist *Paul Krugman columnist Joseph Lelyveld former executive editor Anthony Lewis former columnist *Flora Lewis former columnist *Walter Lippmann Judith Miller - columnist (questioned in Plame case) Abraham Michael (A.M.) Rosenthal columnist and former executive editor David E. Sanger White House correspondent Seymour Topping formering managing editor and foreign editor Washington Post *Nurith Aizenman Anne E. Applebaum columnist Rajiv Chandrasekaran Pamela Constable deputy foreign editor; former Kabul Bureau Chief Karen J. DeYoung associate editor Jackson K. Diehl columnist David R. Ignatius Robert Kagan columnist Robert G. Kaiser Glenn A. Kessler Charles Krauthammer columnist Thomas Lippman former Middle East bureau chief Caryle M. Murphy Don Oberdorfer staff writer Walter H. Pincus *George F. Will columnist

Robin Wright correspondent Wall Street Journal *Max Boot columnist Paul Steiger Alan S. Murray Marcus Brauchli global news editor John C. Bussey deputy managing editor Daniel Henninger deputy editor of the editorial page Melanie Kirkpatrick associate editor of the editorial page Kenneth H. Bacon former columnist *Robert L. Bartley former Editor *L. Gordon Crovitz Senior Vice President Susan Bennett former diplomatic correspondent for Knight-Ridder newspapers; former USA Today editorial writer *Linda Chavez syndicated columnist Lee Cullum - columnist for Dallas Morning News; commentator on PBS Arnaud de Borchgrave former editor-in-chief of Washington Times and former senior editor of Newsweek Dennis A. Britton former editor-in-chief of Denver Post and Chicago Sun-Times Georgie Anne Geyer syndicated columnist; author of Guerilla Prince (Fidel Castro); first westerner to interview Saddam Hussein Carol Giacomo diplomatic correspondent for Reuters News Agency Pranay Gupte business columnist for The New York Sun Edwin O. Guthman former editor of Los Angeles Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer Lucy Komisar journalist and author of The New Feminism; a rabid feminist James Landers columnist for Dallas Morning News Deroy Murdock columnist Andres M. Oppenheimer - columnist for The Miami Herald Michael C. Parks former editor of Los Angeles Times Ponchitta Pierce former New York editor of Ebony magazine Sheridan Prasso columnist and propagandist Trudy S. Rubin columnist and editorial board member for The Philadelphia Inquirer David M. Schribman syndicated columnist Cynthia A. Tucker Atlanta Journal Constitution

CFR Hollywood actors and actresses:

Madeleine K. Albright (part-time) Warren Beatty Shirley Temple Black Michael Douglas Richard Dreyfuss Michael Medavoy Ron Silver (Sen.) Fred Thompson (part-time) *Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Board of Directors of the Corporate Media

Walt Disney (Disney, ABC, ESPN) (Sen.) George J. Mitchell, Chairman of the Board John E. Bryson John S. Chen Monica C. Lozano Viacom Ellen V. Futter Frederic V. Salerno

Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal) Peter R. Kann, CEO Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. Frank N. Newman News Corporation (Fox News) Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO *Viet Dinh John L. Thornton Time Warner (CNN, Time, Warner Brothers, etc.) Richard D. Parsons, Chairman and CEO Jessica P. Einhorn Frank J. Caufield Carla A. Hills CBS (Viacom and CBS separated in Jan. 2006) Joseph A. Califano, Jr. William S. Bill Cohen New York Times Co. (New York Times, Boston Globe) Henry B. Schacht Donald M. Stewart Gannett Co. (USA Today) *Louis D. Boccardi James A. Johnson Donna Shalala

Corporate Executives of the Corporate Media

Current Executives H. Brandt Ayers - publisher of The Anniston Star (Alabama); also a columnist Jeffrey Bewkes President and Chief Operating Officer of Time Warner Inc.; former CEO of Home Box Office (HBO) Cathleen Black President of Hearst Magazines Glenn A. Britt - Chairman and CEO, Time Warner Cable Lewis W. Coleman President, DreamWorks Animation SKG Joan Ganz Cooney producer of Sesame Street (on PBS) Lyric Hughes Hale Publisher and CEO of China Online, Inc. Karen Elliot House Publisher of Wall Street Journal; Senior Vice President of Dow Jones Joel Z. Hyatt CEO of IndTV Gary E. Knell President and CEO of Sesame Workshop (PBS) Monica C. Lozano publisher and CEO of La Opinion (largest Spenish-language newspaper in the U.S.) Christopher Ma Vice President of Washington Post Co. Patricia E. Mitchell - President, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) Rupert Murdoch Chairman and CEO, News Corp. (Fox News) Bruce L. Paisner Vice President of The Hearst Corporation; President of Hearst Entertainment Richard P. Parsons Chairman and CEO, Time Warner, Inc.; former CEO of American Online (AOL) Joe Peyronnin - Executive Vice President of News and Infoormation Programming for Telemundo Network Norman Pattiz - chairman & founder of Westwood One (radio network) Richard M. Smith chairman and editor-in-chief of Newsweek David L. Westin president of ABC television

Former Executives William E. Ahearn former executive editor of The Associated Press (AP) *Louis D. Boccardi former President and CEO of The Associated Press (AP) C. Shelby Coffey III former Editor and Executive Vice President of Los Angeles Times Joseph J. Collins former chairman and CEO of Time Warner Cable John F. Cooke former president of The Disney Channel *Michael Eisner former CEO of Disney Peter C. Goldmark Jr. former Chairman and CEO of International Herald Tribune *Katharine Graham - former Chairman of the Board of The Washington Post Jay T. Harris former chairman and publisher of San Jose Mercury News James F. Hoge former publisher of Chicago Sun Times Lee W. Huebner former Publisher and CEO of International Herald Tribune Alberto Ibarguen former publisher of The Miami Herald Walter S. Isaacson former CNN executive W. Thomas Johnson former president of CNN; former publisher and CEO of Los Angeles TImes Eason T. Jordan - former Chief News Executive of CNN News Peter Kann former chairman, Dow Jones & Co. James V. Kimsey - founding CEO of America Online David A. Laventhol former publisher of Los Angeles Times; former publisher and editor of Newsday Jose I. Lozano former Publisher and CEO of La Opinion *Eugene Meyer former head of The Washington Post Thomas S. Murphy former CEO of Capital Cities/ABC Luis G. Nogales former Chairman and CEO of United Press International (UPI) Michael S. Ovitz former President of Disney; former head of Creative Artists Agency *William S. Paley former chairman of CBS television Joe Peyronnin former President of Fox News; former Vice President of CBS News *David Sarnoff former head of RCA (also NBC) Herbert S. Schlosser former President of NBC Alan Spoon former President of Washington Post (1993-2000) Frank Stanton former President of CBS *Arthur Hays Sulzberger former head of New York Times *Arthur Ochs Sulzberger former head of New York Times Arthur R. Taylor former president of CBS Jack Valenti former president of Motion Picture Association of America (1966-2004) George Vradenburg III former Executive Vice President at Fox; former general counsel of CBS