Ruling Class Journalists and Propagandists
Author: Mordechai Zember
Updated on April 24, 2006
*= former CFR member; does not appear on 2005 CFR roster
Propagandists (2006)
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 Greenspan’s 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 NBC’s 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 Harper’s magazine
Karl E. Meyer – editor of World Policy Journal
Lucia Mouat – former UN correspondent for Christian Science Monitor
Patrick J. O’Rourke – correspondent for The Atlantic and contributing editor at