campaign debut. Agnew’s “nattering nabobs” charge encapsulated a persistent national strategy by the right, in which media professionals have been shamed for partisanship when reporting facts the right found objectionable. Journalist Will Bunch noted this enduring influence in his 2009 obituary for William Safire, author of Agnew’s famous phrase.
The words that William Safire penned and that Spiro Agnew mouthed actually had enormous impact that has lasted until this day. They helped foster among conservatives and the folks that Nixon called “the silent majority” a growing mistrust of the mainstream media, a mistrust that grew over two generations into a form of hatred. It also started a dangerous spiral of events—journalists started bending backwards to kowtow to their conservative critics, beginning in the time of Reagan, an ill-advised shift that did not win back a single reader or viewer on the right.70
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