The annual report by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) of think tank citations in the press found a 17 percent decline in media mentions in 2007 over 2006. “The decline was felt across the board among centrist, conservative and progressive think tanks.” Also, this is also the third year in a row of declining citations, and “The decline was most precipitous among citations in major newspapers (down 19 percent) as opposed to [TV & Radio] transcripts (down 6 percent).” They can’t explain the change. Any ideas?

Spirit of opposition

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Chris Demuth steps down as president of AEI and pens an ode to the think tank in the WSJ. Something that caught my eye since I’m reading Hitchens’ Letters to a Young Contrarian now:

Every one of the right-of-center think tanks was founded in a spirit of opposition to the established order of things. Opposition is the natural proclivity of the intellectual (it’s what leads some smart people to become intellectuals rather than computer programmers), and is of course prerequisite to criticism and devotion to reform.

Oct 11, 2007 | Comment | Tags: , ,

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