Blitzkrieg of the Think Tanks

About the Council for National Policy

The Brookings institution is not liberal:

Standing in for the left

The establishment's think tank

What about think tanks in Canada?

"The first part of the [newswatch Canada] study compiled all references to the leading 15 think tanks -- seven left-wing, six right-wing and two middle-of-the-road -- for a six-month period, in 14 mainstream daily newspapers and CBC and CTV television news broadcasts. The political leaning of each think tank was assessed independently by several mainstream journalists.

In a second stage of research, coverage of the Fraser Institute (right-wing) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (left-wing) was analyzed for the type and quality of coverage in the Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail. There were five times more articles about the Fraser Institute than about the CCPA..." - Newswatch Canada

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