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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: What's in a Label? By Michael Dolny For the third year in a row, conservative or right-leaning think tanks in 1997 provided more than half of major media's think tank citations, according to FAIR's third annual survey of major newspaper and broadcast media citations in the Nexis computer database. Think tanks of the right provided 53 percent of citations, while progressive or left-leaning think tanks received just 16 percent of total citations. Half of the ten most-cited think tanks are conservative or right-leaning, including three of the top four. The centrist Brookings Institution held the top spot as the most widely cited think tank for the second year in a row. Three right-wing institutions--the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute and Cato Institute--maintained their respective positions as the second, third and fourth most cited. The top four think tanks were each cited more than a thousand times, and provided 46 percent of all think tank citations. Missing Labels To see how the top four think tanks were identified, a random 10 percent of their citations were examined. Surprisingly, all four institutions were not identified at all in a majority of their respective citations. The most mentioned think tank, the Brookings Institution, was given no identification in 78 percent of the 229 citations examined. In another 17 percent, it was identified as being located in Washington, D.C. Twice it was referred to as "liberal," twice as "non-partisan" and once as "centrist." To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1425 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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