Boone Pickens Offers $1.5 million Challenge to Help Fund the Business & Media Institute

     In 2005, Media Research Center Trustee and Texas businessman Boone Pickens has pledged $1.5 million to help fund the MRC’s Business & Media Institute, in three $500,000 annual installments, on the condition that others match him. This Challenge grant helps finance the Business & Media Institute’s operations and fund the Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow. The Free Market Fellow plays 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 Business & Media Institute 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 Business & Media Institute 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 Vice President for Development Thom Golab. All gifts are, of course, tax-deductible. Contact him by phone at 703-683-9733 ext. 162 or e-mail at tgolab@mediaresearch.org. Send mail inquiries and donations to:

Boone Pickens Challenge
Media Research Center
325 S. Patrick Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

About the Business & Media Institute

     The MRC launched the Business & Media Institute (formerly 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 Business & Media Institute 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 Business & Media Institute 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.