Controversy
In October 2011 a petition was addressed to The New York Times complaining about Bryce. It asked the paper's public editor, Arthur Brisbane, to address the issue of how op-ed writers are identified and asked that the paper be more transparent with regard to any financial support the op-ed writers may get from various industries. On October 29, 2011, Brisbane responding to the petition, writing "I don’t think Mr. Bryce is masquerading as anything: experts generally have a point of view". Regarding the issue of funding from energy-related interests, Brisbane wrote that "the Manhattan Institute’s dependence on this category of funding is slight — about 2.5 percent of its budget over the past 10 years."
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