The Choice Channel

“Watchdogs are a welcome and necessary part of any community and everyone deserves to be watched, scholars and think-tanks included. But to be effective, watchdogs must be impartial. And to be viewed as impartial, one must diligently conduct oneself accordingly. The recently launched Think Tank Review Project (TTRP), based at Arizona State University, touts itself as such a watchdog, barking and nipping at think tank studies and reports that, according to project co-director Kevin Welner, are ‘little more than ideological argumentation dressed up as research.’ We at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation always thought it passing strange that so opinionated a group would set itself up as impartial arbiters.” (05/31/06)