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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: The Think Tank Spectrum By Michael Dolny The media are liberal, CBS correspondent Bernard Goldberg claimed in a recent column in the Wall Street Journal (2/13/96). His proof? CBS reporters are allegedly instructed to identify the Heritage Foundation as "conservative"--but in a story on the flat tax, his CBS colleague Engberg failed to label another Washington-based think tank, the Brookings Institution, as "liberal." While Goldberg only provided this one anecdotal example, he could have found more cases. In January 1996, according to a search of the Nexis database, major papers cited Brookings 185 times; only once was the think tank referred to as "liberal." (The vast majority of mentions included no ideological description.) Heritage was cited 218 times, and in 76 of those references it was called "conservative," "right" or "Republican." But is this inaccurate? Heritage is a leading voice of the conservative movement, and proudly identifies as such. Brookings, on the other hands, neither represents nor claims to represent liberals or progressives. Backed by corporate funding, including donations from the military and oil industries, Brookings has long had a center-right orientation. As far back as the mid-'80s, Fortune magazine was approvingly noting (7/23/84) that "Brookings Tilts Right." "Centrist" was the descriptive label used by Bruce MacLaury, the former Nixon administration Treasury official who was Brookings' president from 1977 to 1995. Current president Michael Armacost was undersecretary of state in the Reagan administration and President Bush's ambassador to Japan. One of Brookings' most prominent analysts, Stephen Hess, helped edit the Republican platform in 1976. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1357 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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