[Cyber Liberty]

At a recent meeting of the Society of Professional Journalists, a panel of journalists defended the higher use of the word "conservative" to describe conservative think tanks. The panel claimed that conservative think tanks describe themselves as "conservative" or "free market," but liberal think tanks do not describe themselves as "liberal" or "socialist." Based on that rationale, if the Industrial Workers of America or some other widely recognized leftist group is not honest enough to call itself "leftist" or "socialist," reporters would treat the group as politically impartial and not affix a label to it.

I'll do you one better than that. My local paper refers to the Brookings Institution as "the Conservative Brookings Institution". Go figure.

[martin_fierro]

The panel claimed that conservative think tanks describe themselves as "conservative" or "free market," but liberal think tanks do not describe themselves as "liberal" or "socialist."

That lame excuse doesn't even pass the laugh test.