I came across this 2007 paper - TANKED:
CANADIAN THINK TANKS AND THE DAILY PRESS
A report prepared by George Fetherling
for the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership, June 2007
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CANADIAN THINK TANKS AND THE DAILY PRESS
A report prepared by George Fetherling
for the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership, June 2007
...
A quote - " “Most think tanks in Canada are a waste of time,” he wrote. “Those on the right twist and distort data to prove the country is overtaxed and underproducing. Those on the left use the same data to prove that society is increasingly unequal and unjust.”
Today the same fellow is giving space to all right-leaning think tanks that will make his case to support the Harper government. The paper is essentially about - "The real question, I believe, is whether Canadian newspapers are outsourcing the news when they run material from ideologically driven think tanks that pop up at an alarming rate. Are the papers not, in this era of deteriorating circulation and declining budgets, backing away from a part of their responsibility? Where think tanks are concerned, are newspapers in danger of becoming printed blogs or mere public bulletin boards, giving space to anyone who sounds sane and is not committing libel? At the very least, are they not grinding other people’s axes along with their own?"
http://www.chumirethicsfoundation.ca/…/CanadianThinkTanksAn…
The 2007 paper was way ahead of its time. Or a harbinger that forshadowed the dismal future of newspapers........
See MoreToday the same fellow is giving space to all right-leaning think tanks that will make his case to support the Harper government. The paper is essentially about - "The real question, I believe, is whether Canadian newspapers are outsourcing the news when they run material from ideologically driven think tanks that pop up at an alarming rate. Are the papers not, in this era of deteriorating circulation and declining budgets, backing away from a part of their responsibility? Where think tanks are concerned, are newspapers in danger of becoming printed blogs or mere public bulletin boards, giving space to anyone who sounds sane and is not committing libel? At the very least, are they not grinding other people’s axes along with their own?"
http://www.chumirethicsfoundation.ca/…/CanadianThinkTanksAn…
The 2007 paper was way ahead of its time. Or a harbinger that forshadowed the dismal future of newspapers........
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