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→6) Media Messaging and Support: make example more specific
Today, SPN think tanks are hooking up with right-wing media outlets to push out their message. The [[Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity]] is a national non-profit organization that was created to fill a void in state capitol reporting caused by the loss of a third of the nation’s journalism jobs since 1992. The Franklin Center funds state news websites and wire services in more than 40 states. Despite their non-partisan description, many of these “news” websites have received criticism for their conservative bias. A majority (37) of SPN think tanks host Franklin “reporters” or publish a Franklin-affiliated publication, according to a review by CMD.
As an example of how these outfits operate, New Hampshire's [[Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy]] (JBCPP) runs the Franklin site ''NewHampshire.Watchdog.org''. The think tank's staffer Grant Bosse edits the publication. Not only does he use the platform to spin disinformation -- such as publishing "news articles" on how the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is "all about money" while the publication and JBCPP strive to repeal it<ref>Grant Bosse, Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, [http://newhampshire.watchdog.org/11771/changes-in-greenhouse-gas-program-are-all-about-money/ Changes in Greenhouse Gas program are all about money], ''New Hampshire Watchdog'' organizational publication, February 19, 2013.</ref> -- but he testifies to the state legislature on policy against policies like RGGI ''without disclosing his ties '' to the JBCPPor the Franklin Center, as shown by the video footage obtained by the organization Granite State Progress (at left).<ref>Granite State Progress, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eRkDMZvhl4 Grant Bosse Testimony on HB 630-FN], organizational video publication, March 21, 2013.</ref>
('''Please see each of the [[SPN Members]] for more on each of their ties to the Franklin Center and its publications.''')
