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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Think Tanks Y2K By Michael Dolny While 2000 was an unsettling year for electoral democracy and the stock market, it was a good time to be a think tank. Overall, media citations of think tanks grew 29 percent in 2000. Progressive or left-leaning organizations obtained 20 percent of those citations, an 79 percent gain over 1999. Some think tanks saw a dramatic increase in the number of references they received in electronic media, including many progressive groups, such as the Economic Policy Institute, Urban Institute and Justice Policy Institute. While this represents a step toward diversity, the debate is still largely conducted on a center-right continuum, with conservative or right-leaning think tanks garnering half of all citations. Think tanks citations in major newspapers grew by only 5 percent from 1999 to 2000, while citations in radio and television transcripts increased 65 percent. This may reflect the proliferation of pundit-oriented shows, such as Fox's Special Report and CNN's Inside Politics, and the rise of financial networks, such as CNBC and CNNfn. The think tanks cited by major papers were somewhat more conservative than those in electronic media; only 17 percent of their think tanks references were to progressive groups, vs. 23 percent in electronic outlets. The four most-cited think tanks remained the same as in every previous think tank survey: The centrist Brookings Institution, and conservative groups Cato, Heritage and American Enterprise. All four posted at least 20 percent gains from the previous year, with American Enterprise collecting 40 percent more citations than in 1999. Brookings, the first group to break the 3,000 citation barrier, by itself accounted for over half of the citations for centrist think tanks, and almost one-sixth of all think tank citations. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1073 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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