Dollarocracy (68 page)

Iowa Broadcast News Association,
152

Iowa Republican caucuses,
39

Iowa State University,
121

Iowa TV stations,
129–130
,
134

Issa, Darrell,
214

Issue ads,
87

Issenberg, Sasha,
207
,
239

Iyengar, Shanto,
120
,
127–128

J. Walter Thompson (JWT) ad agency,
106
,
107

Jackson, Andrew,
18
,
166

Jackson Sr., Jesse,
32

Jackson Jr., Jesse,
280

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall,
117
,
124
,
152
,
157–158
,
179
,
211

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, Kate Kenski, and Bruce Hardy,
The Obama Victory
,
115–116

Jay, John,
17

Jeep plants, Toledo, Ohio,
123–124

Jefferson, Thomas,
16
,
17
,
18
,
67–68
,
165
,
261
,
270
,
273
,
283–284

Jeffrey, Bob,
106–107

Johnson, Gary,
14
,
204
,
205

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
23–24
,
25–26
,
27
,
140–143
,
222
,
223
,
255

        
1964 campaign,
102–103

Johnson, Ron,
153–154

Jones, Arianna,
xvi

Jorgensen, Paul,
43

Journalism,
161–188

        
collapse of,
190–202
,
212
,
220

        
and commercialism,
171–172
,
173–174

        
and the cult of balance,
175–176

        
history, of American,
165–180
,
185
,
191
,
212–213

        
Internet,
195–196
,
231–232
,
233
,
234–235

        
monopolies,
170–171
,
171–172
,
173

        
partisan,
166–169
,
170

        
and print subsidies,
166
,
168
,
170
,
185
,
273

        
professionalized,
172–180
,
202
,
206
,
210
,
213
,
234

        
watchdog function,
191–196

        
yellow,
170

Judicial Crisis Network,
98
,
98–99

Justice at Stake Campaign,
58
,
59

Kaiser, Robert,
186

Kalb, Marvin,
182

Kantar Media,
41
,
119
,
135
,
136

Kanter, Julian,
113

Kaplan, Marty,
159

Kaplan, Richard,
168–170

Kaplan, Rick,
212
,
215

Karlin, Mark,
15

Kasten, Robert,
121

Katz, Jon,
221

Kaufmann, Greg,
178

Kaur, Satwant,
223

Kennard, William,
149–150

Kennedy, Anthony,
88
,
90
,
228

Kennedy, John F.,
24
,
25
,
38
,
223
,
224
,
270

Kennedy Jr., Robert F.,
6–7

Kenski, Kate, Bruce Hardy and Kathleen Hall Jamieson,
The Obama Victory
,
115–116

Kerbel, Matthew,
187–188

Kerry, John,
48
,
119
,
122
,
126

Key, V. O.,
109

Keyes, Alan,
183

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
xiv
,
1
,
7

Kissinger, Henry,
70

Klein, Joe,
102

Kleptocracy, corporate,
6–7

Knox v. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000
,
90–91
,
93

Koch, Charles and David,
42
,
47
,
63
,
65
,
78
,
81

Korean War,
101

Koster, Chris,
52

Kristol, William,
211

Krugman, Paul,
123
,
175
,
202

Krumholz, Sheila,
43

Kaur, Satwant,
223

Kucinich, Dennis,
80
,
114
,
183

Kurtz, Howard,
147–148

La Follette, Robert M.,
5
,
20
,
22
,
23
,
29
,
171
,
268

LaBolt, Ben,
237

Labor unions.
See
Unions, labor

Lake, Steve,
134

Lanier, Jaron,
221

Larson, John,
268

Las Vegas broadcast market,
136
,
189–190

Lau, Richard,
128

Lazarsfeld, Paul,
101

League of Women Voters,
133
,
203
,
258
,
268

Left in the Dark: Local Election coverage in the Age of Big-Money Politics
(Free Press study),
266

Lehrer, Jim,
202
,
203

Lessig, Lawrence,
3

Letterman, David,
137

Levin, Michael,
211

Libertarian Party,
14
,
46
,
80
,
204

Limbaugh, Rush,
146
,
194
,
211
,
212
,
214
,
219

Lincoln, Abraham,
19
,
95
,
167

        
Gettysburg Address,
20
,
95
,
104

Lippmann, Walter,
177–178
,
220

Lobbyists, corporate,
76
,
79–81

        
media,
138–139
,
145–146
,
153

Los Angeles Times
,
62
,
89
,
193
,
244

Lowry, Brian,
207

Macpherson, C. B.,
109
,
169

Maddow, Rachel,
215

Madison, James,
17
,
18
,
255

Making of the President
(TV series),
102

Mander, Jerry,
111

Mane, Sherrill,
243

Manhattan Institute,
78

Manning, Burt,
106
,
118

“Marketer of the Year” award,
Advertising Age
magazine,
115
,
238

Marshall, Thurgood,
85
,
259–260

Martin, Trayvon,
185

Martinez, Jennifer,
236

Marx, Karl,
167

Massachusetts,
71
,
82–84

Massey Energy,
58

Mathias, Charles,
104

McCain, John,
38
,
115
,
122
,
125
,
176

        
2000 election,
125

        
2008 campaign,
116
,
117
,
119
,
120
,
125

        
on McCain-Feingold,
147–148

McCain-Feingold “Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002,”
87
,
89
,
147–148
,
267
,
272

McCarthy, Devin,
15

McChesney, Robert W., and John Nichols,
The Death and Life of American Journalism
,
190
,
192

McConnell, Mitch,
32

McCormack, Bridget,
97
,
98–99

McCormick Group,
80

McGehee, Meredith,
150

McGeveran, William,
247

McGinniss, Joe,
The Selling of the President 1968
,
27
,
38
,
103
,
187

McGovern, George,
26–27
,
29

McGovern, Jim,
283

McGraw, Darrell,
51–52

McHugh, Molly,
241

McKinnon, Mark,
62
,
117

McPherson, James Brian,
210
,
215

Media

        
and bias,
182–184

        
defining role of,
163
,
164–165
,
166
,
178–179
,
181–185

        
left-wing,
215–216

        
right-wing,
190
,
210–215
,
216–219
,
249–250

        
mergers and acquisitions,
137–138

        
monopolies,
170–172
,
191
,
219

Media, social,
9–10
,
223
,
225
,
226–227
,
229
,
231
,
235–236

        
and data collection,
236–242

Media Research Center,
78

Medicare and Medicaid,
33
,
143

Medved, Michael,
211

Melber, Ari,
175

Mélenchon, Jean-Luc,
204–205

Messina, Jim,
237
,
238
,
239–240
,
241

Michaels, Cindy,
198

Michigan Campaign Finance Network,
56

Microsoft Corporation,
51
,
228
,
229

Microtargeting,
243–244
,
247
,
248–250
,
253

Military,
5
,
177
,
204

Miller, Ellen,
139

Mills, Wilbur,
143

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
,
201

Missouri,
52–53

        
2012 campaign spending,
50

Mitchell, John,
28

Moffett, Zac,
233

Money Power, The,
2
,
8
,
20
,
22
,
23
,
29
,
39
,
57

Money-and-media election complex,
3–4
,
5
,
8–9
,
32
,
46
,
184–185
,
190
,
222
,
235

Money-as-speech,
69
,
70
,
71
,
83–84
,
84–85
,
86

Monopolies, media,
171–172
,
173
,
228–229

Monroe, James,
17
,
18

Montana,
22
,
44
,
93
,
94

Moody's Investors Service,
134

Moore, Michael,
87