Right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, and the Heartland Institute are clearly propaganda mills, yet the press gives them an air of intellectual respectability by describing them as "think tanks" - as thought they are sites that produce reasonable conclusions based on disinterested research, the way genuine think tanks like the Brookings Institute (and our universities) do.
Look for instance at some of the "scholars" associated with the American Enterprise Institute: John Bolton, Lynne Cheney, Newt Gingrich. And the Cato Institute? Its original name says it all: The Charkes Koch Foundation.
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