news & world report" in publishing that article attributed the collum simply thus: thomas pyle is the president of the institute for energy research, with no mention that the institute for energy research is a front for big donors like the claude r. lamm charitable foundation and exxonmobil. may i ask for an additional five minutes? may i have unanimous consent? ferraro is there objection?ñ without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you. the problem is that the -- this is one example of a misleading practice that is the norm in the media. more than half of the time, media outlets do nothing more than state the name of the publishing organization, like thomas pyle and the institute for energy research. or they may add a functional description like "think tank" or "nonpartisan group." the instance where the public described the basic ideology of the group, for example, as a free market or conservative think-tank, amount to less than a third. in all of the media outlets reviewed between 2007-2011, the financial ties between the authors and the fossil fuel industry were mentioned a mere 6%