Seeking Your Help
Are you an attorney with access to either Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw News? I need your help. I am wanting to investigate whether there is statistical proof of pro-income tax bias in the reporting on the issue by Tennessee's larger daily newspapers and the Associated Press. Specifically, I'd like to run searches for the names of pro-income tax economists (like Fox at UT-Knoxville) and also those of anti-income tax economists (like Ford at MTSU and J.R. Clark, at UT-Chattanooga) in stories published in the Tennessean, Knoxville News-Sentinel, Memphis, Chattanooga, Clarksville, Jackson, Tri-Cities, and the Associated Press of Tennessee, and also run some other searches to compare how the papers have covered the wider budget issue. My hunch is the pro-IT guys are quoted much more freqently and extensively than the anti-IT guys. If I'm right, we'll prepare a "white paper" exposing the pro-IT bias.

If you can help with this project, please let me know. My email is bhhobbs -at- comcast.net