re: #599 Killgore Trout

It’s slow around here this so I’ll toss this out and see if anyone has some thoughts.
Has anyone ever explored the effects of Think Tanks on the blogosphere? As I look around everyone is either shilling for Heritage/CATO or Center For American Progress. I’m not implying that there’s some grand conspiracy from Soros/Koch Bros but it does seem that these think tanks have a lot of influence on pushing content into the blogosphere.

They’ve always had such influence, Killgore, even before the Internet. Magazines like The Nation and National Review depend on think tanks to produce the studies and data they need to make the case for the magazine’s preferred policies. Their website kin do need same thing.