McDowell, Duby, 146–147

McKernon, Edward, 71–72

Medicare, 148, 150

Merritt, Davis “Buzz”, 16

Miller, Clyde, 122

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5

Mock, James, 44, 171

MSNBC, 138–139, 142, 147

Nation, The, 18

National Association of Manufacturers, 12, 101–120, 130–132, 134, 144, 188, 190

and defense preparedness, 106, 116–120

National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 138–139, 141, 144–145

National Education Association, the , 5

National Printer Journalist, 120, 123

National Public Radio (NPR), 137, 141

near-journalists, 54, 72–73, 78

Neiman Group, the, 146

New Deal, 9–10, 102, 107–108, 110

and charges of activism, 106–110, 119, 127

New Masses, 94

New Republic, 46

New York Evening Post, 92

New York Evening Telegram, 57

New York Herald Tribune, 29, 48, 126, 188

New York Post, 140

New York Times, 99, 107, 109, 113, 117, 119, 124, 136–138, 142–143, 148, 151, 193

New York World, 49

Newark Star-Ledger, 5–6, 17

newspapers, 1–2, 5, 18, 20, 22, 30, 33, 35, 42, 44, 49–51, 54, 57–75, 83, 90–91, 99–100, 102–103, 106–107, 117, 120–129, 136, 141, 143–146, 150, 152, 154, 190

downsizing of, 17, 153

readership of, 17, 20

Newspaper Death Watch (Web site), 17

Nichols, John, 18

Nip, Joyce, 18

North American Review, 35

North Andover (MA) Eagle Tribune,, 150

Odegard, Peter, 25

Olasky, Marvin, 82

Overholser, Geneva, 145

Page, Arthur W., 99

Palmer, Lincoln, 57

Paper Cuts (Web site), 17

Pearl Harbor, 102, 118

Penny press, the, 22

Pew, Marlen, 90–91

Pew Research Center, 5, 16, 20–21

Philadelphia Inquirer, 17

Philadelphia Press, 48

Philadelphia Record, 94

Pitts, Leonard, 15

Pittston (PA)Gazette, 65

political economy study of journalism, 3–7, 18, 22, 153–156

Ponder, Stephen, 45

Post Office Department, the, 59, 69