Dumping their tax-deductible loot by the millions , the corporations ( Archer Daniels Midland , GE , Mobil , Exxon , Chevron , Dupont , Metropolitan Life ) encouraged the sort of shows only a member of the Business Roundtable could centrist news programs , conservative talk shows , Wall Street advice shows , lions-of-the-Serengeti documentaries , and historical dramas that set all human conflict in late-19 th -century England .
Companies dumped their tax-deductible loot by the millions .