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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by Poiesis on Thursday September 30, 2010 @08:31PM (#1745463)

Still, it's a general law of NPR reporting that a left-wing think tank is called a "think tank" and a right-wing think tank is called a "right-wing think tank".

I don't really have a dog in this fight, but a quick search suggests you may be mistaken. [site:npr.org "right-wing think tank"] os 8 results; [site:npr.org "think tank"] has about 2380. Nothing funny in robots.txt.

But you never know, maybe there aren't that many transcripts on there or something...

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by hugh3 on Thursday September 30, 2010 @08:46PM (#1745502)

Or perhaps they rarely quote right-wing think tanks?

Still, a bit more googling:

7 hits for "right-wing think tank" vs 4 hits for "left-wing think tank", so apparently they don't use either term very often.

1200 hits for "liberal think tank" vs 285 for "conservative think tank" vs 447 for "libertarian think tank" (all of which seem to be Cato) vs 6 for "moderate think tank".

3 for "Republican think tank", 345 for "Democratic think tank" and 57 for "non-partisan think tank"

I take your point, though. What you'd really need to do in order to analyze bias would be to check out "think tank" is used without an adjective and figure out what kind of think tanks those are.

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by yv on Friday October 01, 2010 @09:10AM (#1746889)

These numbers of grossly inaccurate. Go to the last results page of each query to see the real hit count.

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by carbocation on Thursday September 30, 2010 @08:40PM (#1745481)

And 4 results for [site:npr.org "left-wing think tank"]

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