Cyrus Dugger

The Tortellini: Another Reporter Falls for the Manhattan Institute

From The Tortellini:

It’s always nice to see the folks over at the Manhattan Institute’s Overlawyered.com touting their success at spoon-feeding some of their propaganda to willing reporters, so you know what they’ve been up to. It’s not so nice when it turns out that the spoon-fed reporter is someone you know and like.

I cringed when I noticed an Overlawyered mash note to Mike Crowley, an editor at the New Republic and columnist at Reader’s Digest, which for some reason has long been a very reliable and one-sided mouthpiece for tort reform groups.

I know Mike from my early days at the Washington Monthly, where he was once an intern. So I was pretty surprised to see the approving Overlawyered cites to several of Mike’s Reader’s Digest columns, especially this one, which reads like boilerplate tort reform rhetoric that could have come right off Overlawyered (and apparently, according to MI’s Walter Olson, lots of the column did). (keep reading)

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