Dollarocracy (69 page)

Moroun, Manuel “Matty,”
56

Morrill Act of 1862,
143

Morrisey, Patrick,
51–52

Mother Jones
magazine,
199
,
207

Move to Amend,
264

Moyers, Bill,
132
,
141–143
,
144
,
159
,
206
,
273
,
278

MSNBC (MicroSoft National Broadcasting Company),
185
,
215–216
,
217
,
238

Murdoch, Rupert,
138
,
165
,
212
,
234

Nader, Ralph,
26
,
29
,
31
,
72
,
77
,
183
,
184
,
205–206
,
219

National Association of Broadcasters (NAB),
138
,
147
,
148
,
151

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
210
,
269

National Broadcasting Company.
See
NBC

National Citizens Committee for Public Broadcasting,
144–146

National Institute of Money in State Politics,
53

National Football League Players Association,
121

National Public Radio (NPR),
119
,
206

National Review
,
211

National Rifle Association (NRA),
51
,
52
,
149

National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, 1966,
26

NBC (National Broadcasting Company),
54
,
133
,
151
,
253

Negative advertising,
118–124
,
156

Nelson, Gaylord,
29
,
72

Nevada, as battleground state,
189–190

New Deal,
22
,
31
,
144

New Orleans Times-Picayune
191

New York Times
,
4
,
25
,
27
,
28
,
33
,
42
,
43–44
,
61
,
67
,
73
,
97–98
,
112
,
123
,
176–177
,
181
,
190
,
217
,
236
,
247

News Corporation,
138
,
234

Newspaper Guild,
173

Newspapers, demise of,
107
,
190–193
,
194–202

Newsweek
, out of print,
193–194

New Zealand,
277

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

Nieman Foundation for Journalism (at Harvard),
174

Nixon, Richard,
25
,
27
,
27–28
,
32
,
224

        
1960 campaign,
102
,
105

        
administration,
70
,
144

        
creates Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
26
,
72

        
Supreme Court nominations,
73

Nonprofits, and dark money,
44–45

Novak, Robert,
122

Nyhart, Nick,
266

Obama, Barack,
4
,
13
,
26
,
34

        
2008 campaign,
33
,
114–117
,
119
,
120
,
125
,
237

        
2012 campaign,
37
,
40–41
,
65
,
124
,
134–135
,
176
,
203
,
205
,
217
,
218
,
221–222
,
224
,
225
,
235
,
236–241

        
fundraising,
40–41

        
jokes, about political ad saturation,
136

Obamacare.
See
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

Ochs, Adolph,
176

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),
26

Occupy Wall Street movement,
xi
,
11–12
,
84
,
236
,
262
,
269

O'Connor, Sandra Day,
59

O'Donnell, Lawrence,
215

Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights,
275

Ogilvy, David,
105
,
118

Ogilvy & Mather ad agency,
105
,
106

Ohio, Toledo Jeep plant,
123–124

Olbermann, Keith,
215
,
216

Oligopolies, and advertising,
108
,
109
,
110
,
111
,
112

1 Percent, the,
171

Orlando Sentinel
,
201

Page, Larry,
230

Paine, Thomas,
xi
,
17
,
29
,
165
,
221
,
271

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),
125

Pariser, Eli,
159
,
231
,
233

Patterson, Thomas,
154
,
179
,
181–182
,
187

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP,
134

Paul, Rand,
120

Paul, Ron,
39
,
53
,
80
,
114
,
183–184

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service),
144
,
146
,
146–147
,
202–203

PBS NewsHour
,
202
,
206

“Pennsylvania Idea,”
18–19

Peha, Jon,
248–249

People for the American Way,
265

Perot, Ross,
37
,
184

Perry, Bob,
48–49

Pew Research Center,
13
,
155
,
157
,
194
,
200
,
206–207
,
225
,
231
,
235
,
236

Pierce, Franklin,
167

Plutocracy,
95
,
257–258

Pocan, Mark,
281

Political Action Committees (PACs),
4
,
38
,
43–45
,
50
,
224
,
243
,
268–269

Politico
,
44
,
50–51
,
60
,
64
,
65
,
236
,
248–249

Politics
(Aristotle),
16

Politifact,
158

Polls, push,
125–126

Pope, Art,
269

Postal subsidies,
166
,
168
,
170
,
219
,
253

Post-Intelligencer
(Seattle newspaper),
195

Powell, Lewis,
8
,
30
,
71–78
,
78

        
activism of,
71–72

        
“Attack on American Free Enterprise System” (memo),
73–76
,
77
,
78
,
79
,
81
,
82
,
83–84

        
confirmed to Supreme Court,
73

        
and
First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
,
83–84
,
86

Pre-roll video ads,
244–246

Print subsidies,
166
,
168
,
170
,
185
,
253
,
273

Prison-industrial complex,
5
,
179

Privacy concerns, about media,
246–248
,
253
,
254
,
267

Professionalized journalism,
172–180
,
202
,
206
,
210
,
213
,
234

Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), University of Maryland,
214–215

Progressive
magazine,
171
,
193

Progressive Democrats of America,
283

Progressive Era,
1
,
5
,
20–23
,
57
,
171
,
173
,
261–262

Progressive Party,
22–23
,
169
,
170

ProPublica,
234
,
250

Protecting Michigan Taxpayers,
60

Public Broadcasting Act of 1967,
142–143

Public Broadcasting Service.
See
PBS

Public broadcasting systems,
139–147
,
202–204
,
272–274

Public Campaign,
266
,
268

Public Citizen,
89
,
265–266

Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act,
72

Public opinion polls,
12
,
34
,
84
,
104
,
136–137
,
196
,
214
,
246–247
,
262

Public relations, as news,
194

Publicity Act of 1910,
21–22

Pulitzer, Joseph,
172

Push polling,
125–126

Radio broadcasting,
125
,
132–133
,
194
,
211

Radio news,
194

        
right-wing,
211

Rainbow Coalition,
32

Ranieri, Gualberto,
123–124

Raskin, Jamin,
279

Rasmussen Reports group,
12

Rath, Tom,
176

Ravitz, Justin,
27

Rawls, John,
82

Reagan, Ronald,
29
,
86
,
147
,
198

        
Supreme Court nominations,
88

Redford, Robert,
104

Redistricting (gerrymandering),
15

Reeves, Rosser,
101
,
105
,
110–111
,
248

Reform, campaign finance,
262–284

        
groups for,
268–269

Rehnquist, William,
69–70
,
71
,
73
,
85–86

        
and
First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
,
84–85

Reich, Robert,
64

Republican Attorneys General Association,
50

Republican Party,
32
,
33
,
34
,
47
,
50–51
,
101

        
2012 primaries,
161–163

        
and right-wing news media,
190
,
211–212
,
213–214
,
215
,
216–219

Reston, James,
143

Restore Our Future Super-PAC,
65

Reuters,
250

Richards, Ann,
125

Richardson, Glenn,
126

Richey, Sean,
114

Richie, Rob,
15

Ridout, Travis,
115
,
119
,
126
,
187

Riesman, David,
101

Right-to-Vote amendment (to the U.S. Constitution),
279–283