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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 in a Time of Crisis By Michael Dolny In 2001, during a time of crisis, the mainstream media rounded up the usual think-tank suspects. Once again, media used think tanks quite often during the year, with over 25,823 citations for the 25 leading think tanks. (FAIR’s annual survey looks at mentions of think tanks in the Nexis database files for major papers and broadcast transcripts.) Thirty-four percent of these citations occurred on or after September 11--a time period that represents roughly 30 percent of the year--suggesting that media were slightly more reliant on these news-shapers in uncertain times. Once again, the centrist Brookings Institution topped the list, garnering almost 15 percent of the citations for the total sample--far surpassing any other think tank. The only newcomer to the top of the list was the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), another centrist group that generated a great deal of media attention with their late November announcement that the United States was in a recession. No progressive or left-leaning think tanks finished within the top 10. The overall percentages for the year were consistent with findings for previous years, with conservative or right-leaning think tanks garnering 48 percent of the citations, centrists receiving 36 percent and progressive or left-leaning think tanks receiving 16 percent. However, centrists dominated the think tank spectrum post-September 11, with Brookings and NBER receiving the most citations. Conservative think tanks had 40 percent of citations after the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks, while progressive citations declined to 11 percent. Progressives were especially absent from broadcast media, earning just 8 percent of citations after September 11. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1102 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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