Dollarocracy (66 page)

Blue State Digital,
237

Boehlert, Eric,
219

Bond, Rich,
210

Bonifaz, John,
xvii
,
263
,
269

Boston Globe
,
145
,
193

Boston University,
250

Boys on the Bus
(book),
181

Bozell, Brent,
210

Bradley, Bill,
133

Brandeis, Louis,
20
,
256

Bremner, Anne,
195

Brennan Center for Justice, New York University's School of Law,
73

Breyer, Stephen,
88

Brin, Sergey,
230

Broadcast licensing,
130–131
,
142
,
154

Broadcasting systems,
146

        
and free airtime,
24
,
133
,
147–150
,
153
,
267
,
271–272

        
nonprofit,
139–147
,
271

        
and public policy,
254

Broder, David,
103
,
242

Brookings Institution,
134–135

Brooklyn Eagle
,
167

Brooks, Phill,
199–200

Brown, Ivy,
128

Brown, Mark,
197

Brownback, Sam,
217

Bryan, William Jennings,
169
,
177

Buchanan, Patrick,
70

Buckley, William F.,
147
,
211

Buckley v. Valeo
,
68
,
69
,
70
,
82
,
270

Buffett, Warren,
31

Bullock, Steve,
93
,
269

Bulworth
(film),
147

Burger, Warren,
70–71

Burnham, Walter Dean,
13

Bush, George H.W.,
113
,
121–122

Bush, George W.,
98
,
114
,
117
,
119
,
122
,
125

        
2000 election,
86
,
218
,
279

Bush v. Gore
,
279

Byers, Dylan,
207

Bystrom, Dianne,
121

Cain, Herman,
65
,
162

Calabrese, Chris,
247

Cameron, David,
137

Cameron, Simon,
18–19

Camp, Terry,
200

Campaign costs

        
in 1972,
104

        
2012 election,
37–38
,
42–57
,
124

        
Kennedy's commission on,
24–25

        
state-level,
48–53

Campaign coverage, commercial television,
186
,
206–209
,
222
,
223
,
224

        
ads, as the story,
187

        
disappearing,
196–202

        
left-wing,
215–216

        
negative,
187
,
201

        
right-wing,
216–219

Campaign coverage, public television,
202–203

Campaign coverage, social media,
235–236

Campaigns and Elections
magazine,
222

Campaigns, local,
53–54
,
198–199

Cancela, Yvanna,
60

Candidate, The
(film),
103–104

Capella, Joseph N.,
179
,
211–212

Caplan, Claudia,
106
,
118

Carnegie Commission,
142–143
,
144

Carnegie Corporation,
143–144

Caro, Robert,
140

Carney, Jay,
176

Carroll, John,
250

Carter, Jimmy,
xiii–xiv
,
31
,
275–276

Carter Center,
275–276

Cato Institute,
78

Caudron, Anne Marie,
129

CBS television network,
76
,
151
,
161
,
196

Center for American Progress (CAP),
57–58
,
59
,
64
,
226

Center for Constitutional Rights,
97–99

Center for Law and Politics,
87

Center for Media and Democracy,
44–45
,
45
,
46

Center for Public Integrity,
44
,
50

Center for Responsive Politics,
43–44
,
46

Chait, Jonathan,
208

Chamber of Commerce, United States,
57–58
,
73
,
76
,
77
,
77–78
,
82
,
154

Chen, Jie,
43

Chicago Sun Times
,
197

Christensen, Rob,
121

Christian Science Monitor
,
4
,
145

Chrysler Corporation,
123–124

Church, Frank,
24
,
25
,
29

Cigarette ads, banned,
72

Citizens for a Sound Economy,
78

Citizens Party,
183

Citizens United,
87

Citizens United v. FEC
,
x
,
2–3
,
6
,
8
,
35
,
38
,
43
,
49
,
68
,
71
,
87–90
,
119
,
150–151
,
227
,
231
,
263
,
264
,
270

Civil disengagement,
16
,
109
,
203

        
as desirable,
30

        
and negative advertising,
127–128

        
of the poor,
32–33

Civil Rights Acts,
2
,
25

Civil rights movement,
25–26

Clampett, Jed,
130

Clark, Ramsey,
104

Clark, William,
94

Clean Air Act,
26

Clean Water Act,
26

Clements, Jeff,
xvii
,
73

Clinton, Bill,
26
,
32
,
46
,
87
,
124
,
148–149
,
215

Clinton, Hillary Rodham,
87
,
122

CNN (Cable News Network),
39
,
183
,
212
,
215
,
262

Cohen, Jeff,
149
,
182
,
215

Cohen, Lizabeth,
102

Cohen, Scott Lee (Illinois candidate),
197

Collective bargaining,
81
,
90–91
,
248

Colorado's American Tradition Partnership (ATP),
44

Columbia Journalism Review
,
155
,
156
,
200

Columbia Law School's Center for Law and Politics,
87

Comcast,
138

Commercial broadcasting,
109–110

        
left-wing,
215–216

        
and political advertising.
See
Political advertising, and commercial broadcasting

        
and professionalism,
178–179

        
right-wing.
See
Media, right-wing

Commission on Presidential Debates,
203
,
205

Committee for a Two Newspaper Town (Seattle),
195

Common Cause,
29
,
264
,
268

Common Sense
(Paine),
165

Commoner, Barry,
183

Communications Workers of America,
269

Confessore, Nicholas,
4
,
40
,
62

Constitution, United States amendments to,
259–261

        
First Amendment,
69
,
70–71
,
83–84
,
85
,
165
,
166–167
,
251–252

        
Fourteenth Amendment,
83

        
Fourth Amendment,
251–252

        
and voting rights,
2
,
12
,
17–18
,
68
,
279–283

Constitution Party,
205

Consumers Union,
144

Conroy, Meredith,
236

Conway, Jack,
120

Conyers, John,
280

Cookies, Internet,
230–231
,
238
,
243

Coolidge, Calvin,
35

Cooper, Michael,
202

Coors family,
78

Copps, Michael,
151
,
266

Corporate kleptocracy,
6–7

Corporations, as people,
71
,
85
,
92

Corriher, Bill,
59

Cray, Charlie,
73

CREDO super-PAC,
268

Crisis of Democracy
(Trilateral Commission),
29

Crooksandliars.com
,
233

Crossroads GPS.
See
American Crossroads GPS

Crouse, Timothy,
181

Crowley, Candy,
202–203

Culinary Workers Union, Las Vegas,
60

Cult of balance,
175–176

Cushion, Stephen,
139

Daily, The
(digital news service),
234

Daily Caller
(blog),
233

Daily Show, The
(TV show),
36

Daisy ad, Lyndon Johnson campaign,
102–103
,
156
,
222
,
223
,
242

Dannenbaum, Keya,
241

Dark money,
44–45
,
46–47
,
250–251
,
266

David Letterman Show
,
137

Davis, James,
235

DC Statehood,
283

Dean, Howard,
183

Death and Life of American Journalism, The
(Nichols and McChesney),
190
,
192

Debates, televised,
161–162
,
202–204
,
205

Debs, Eugene,
172

Declaration of Independence,
16–17
,
18

DeLay, Tom,
191

Dellums, Ron,
27

DeMaio, Carl,
54

DeMint, Jim,
81

DeMoro, RoseAnn,
xvi
,
90

Democracy, vs. dollarocracy,
255–257

Democracy 21 (organization),
153

Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee,
51

Democratic Party,
32
,
33
,
34

Depoliticization,
127–128
,
179
,
196
,
203