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Jones Clarifies Remark: Choreographer Bill T. Jones is embroiled in controversy again. Jones, the central figure of the “victim-art” furor of 1995, who also drew headlines in 1994 for taking off his clothes at a Long Island, N.Y., event with children present, participated in a public interview at a Jewish institution in New York four months ago, at which he said, “Quite frankly, the people controlling the media are Jewish.” He also blamed ethnocentrism for unfavorable reviews of his work. After February articles in Dance Magazine and the Village Voice quoted and challenged him, Jones issued a statement this week, saying: “The use of the word ‘control’ is regrettable. It is a buzz word often used by anti-Semites . . . I apologize to all those who may have been hurt by my use of such an offensive term, but I stand firmly behind the thrust of what I was expressing.”