
Boone Pickens Offers $1.5 million Challenge to Help Fund the Free
Market Project
    Media
Research Center Trustee and respected businessman Boone Pickens has
pledged $1.5 million to help fund the MRC’s Free Market Project, in
three $500,000 annual installments, on the condition that others
match him. This Challenge donation, if matched, will help finance
the Free Market Project’s operations and fund the new
Boone Pickens Free Market
Fellow. The Free Market Fellow will take a leading role in
documenting and exposing the anti-free enterprise culture of the
major media, as well as reaching out to educate news producers and
consumers.
    Mr. Pickens’ $1.5 million Boone Pickens Challenge
donation will take the Free Market Project to the next level, beyond
defending the culture of free enterprise from liberal attacks to
more effectively promoting the virtues of the entrepreneurial spirit
at the national level. The Free Market Project plans to expand its
reach across a spectrum of media: print, radio, television and the
Internet. The MRC is extremely grateful to Mr. Pickens and
encouraged by his commitment and confidence in us.
Take the Challenge!
    If you are interested in helping meet the Challenge,
with any size donation, please contact MRC Director of
Development Thom Golab. All gifts are, of course, tax-deductible.
Contact him by phone at 703-683-9733 ext. 154 or
e-mail at
[email protected]. Send mail inquiries and donations to:
Boone Pickens
Challenge
Media Research Center
325 S. Patrick Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
About the Free Market Project
    The MRC launched the Free Market Project in 1992 to
combat outright media bias against America’s free enterprise system
and to defend the business community from the attacks waged against
them. The Free Market Project has assembled a blue-ribbon
Advisory Committee comprised of distinguished economic scholars
to participate directly in this effort. It has undertaken a number
of significant projects with studies exposing the anti-business
agenda of environmental extremists; it has documented exactly how
the media are distorting tax issues; and it has proven how
journalists are ignoring tort reform while promoting lawsuit
excesses against the business community. The work of the Free Market
Project is cited and its spokesmen interviewed regularly on programs
such as the Fox News Channel’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” in
Investors Business Daily, in The Wall Street Journal, and numerous
other media outlets.
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