North Carolina Newspapers Largely Ignore Conservative Funding Of Sham Think Tanks

NPR used to cite conservative think tanks like Heritage w/o noting their political orientation. They finally cited a progressive think tank, but referred to its political orientation. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who gave them a hard time about this, because they seem to have become more even-handed on this issue.

See the link before for more detail on the NC newspaper behaviour.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/12/03/north-carolina-newspapers-largely-ignore-conser/197113

DANIEL ANGSTER
Dec. 3, 2013

Local North Carolina newspapers cited two right-wing sham think tanks and published op-eds by their staffs while often failing to note their connections to the state's Republican party and to a major conservative donor.

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