Media access via George Soros funding

"Thanks in part to funding from benefactors such as billionaire George Soros, the Center for American Progress has become in just five years an intellectual wellspring for Democratic policy proposals, including many that are shaping the agenda of the new Obama administration.

• To help promote its ideas, CAP employs 11 full-time bloggers who contribute to two Web sites, ThinkProgress and the Wonk Room;

• others prepare daily feeds for radio stations....

CAP, which has 180 staffers and a $27 million budget, devotes as much as half of its resources to promoting its ideas through

• blogs, events, publications and media outreach....

The center's policy briefings are standing-room only,

• packed with lobbyists,

• advocacy-group representatives and reporters

looking for insights on where the Obama administration is headed."

• from Bloomberg News, via Lucianne.com