Making Noise: How Right-Wing Think Tanks Get the Word Out

制造噪音：右翼智库如何传播声音

作者: Aaron Swartz | 来源: aaronsw.com | 时间: 2006-06-07

[This is part 2 of an article on the power of right-wing think tanks. See part one.]

（这是关于右翼智库影响力文章的第二部分。见第一部分。）

Malkin’s book on internment was no more accurate than the corporate misinformation about global warming. Historians quickly showed the book badly distorted the government records and secret cables it purported to describe. As just one example, Malkin writes that a Japanese message stated they “had [Japanese] spies in the U.S. Army” when it actually said they hoped to recruit spies in the army.† But it should be no big surprise that Malkin, who is, after all, an editorialist and not a historian, didn’t manage to fully understand the complex documentary record in the year she spent writing the book part-time.†

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