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Think Tank Citation Numbers: New America Pulls Out the Stops.

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Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) recently released a fascinating assessment, "The Incredible Shrinking Think Tank" documenting the third straight year in a row that think tanks were cited less than the prior year. At a time when think tanks are, on average, saw a 17% decrease in their citations in the press between 2007 and 2008, New America Foundation saw a 44% increase! In fact, New America saw the largest increase of any think tank in the study. When you take a look, the numbers are rather stunning:

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  1. Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2008-05-15 16:50

    What the hell? http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5789

  2. sascha on Sat, 2008-05-17 14:08

    Programs each raise their own funding and it comes from a variety of different funders. Different initiatives at the New America Foundation often have fairly different perspectives from across the political spectrum.


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