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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: Spectrum Narrows Further in 2002 By Michael Dolny The center-right slant in media citations of think tanks continued in 2002, with conservative groups receiving 47 percent of last year’s citations, centrists 41 percent and progressives 12 percent--the least representation for the left since 1998. The top 25 think tanks in 2002 received 25,897 citations in major newspapers and broadcast transcripts, according to a search of the Nexis media database. This is an 8 percent decrease from 2001, bucking the trend of increasing think tank citations since the survey began in 1996. The centrist Brookings Institution maintained the top spot, garnering about one-sixth of the survey’s citations, while another center-oriented group, the Council on Foreign Relations, leapfrogged several think tanks to finish in second place. The Heritage Foundation, in third place, was the highest-ranking conservative think tank, while the ninth-place Economic Policy Institute was the most prominent progressive think tank. The decline in think tank citations may seem surprising, given that the year was filled with big news stories, including the continuing aftermath of September 11, the war in Afghanistan and the build-up toward the attack on Iraq. However, over half of the decline can be accounted for by the relative drop in citations of one think tank, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), whose declaration of a recession in 2001 was cited extensively. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1149 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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