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Empire-Funded Think Tanks Are Not Valid Sources
JOHNSTONE
English - March 20, 2023 13:07 - 6 minutes - 5.91 MB - ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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ATTENTION JOURNALISTS:
It is never, ever acceptable, under any circumstances, to cite think tanks funded by governments and the military industrial complex as sources of information or expertise on matters of national security or foreign affairs.
If you do cite them (and, again, don't), then at the very least you need to disclose the conflict of interest their funding causes in your reporting, and you need to make it abundantly clear to your audience that it is a conflict of interest.
Reading by Tim Foley.