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Media Confidence Index Stays Low

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BMI Staff
June 28, 2006 - 2:00pm

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[1] [2] Media Confidence Index Stays Low Despite Consumer Optimism
Consumer confidence and new home sales are up, but TV journalists haven't seemed to notice. The U.S. economy and its consumers keep defying their dire predictions of recession and housing collapse.
[3]
Gates & Buffett: A Wealth of Information about How Journalists See Money [3]
Rich duo proves that good media coverage can be had ... if you give money to the correct causes.
[4]
G: USA Today crows about Chick-fil-A marital counseling [4]
B: NY Times downplays business costs of Supreme Court ruling [4]
U: CBS jittery over kids drinking coffee [4]
Washington Post Foodies Juiced about Food Police's New Target [5]

Strange Brew of Coverage Now Brings Praise for Coffee [6]

Parade Pushes Another Gas Tax [7]


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Free trade would do the worlds poor much more good than Buffetts billions [9](Greg Mankiw)

Neutering the Net: Why Microsoft wants to regulate the Internet into prosperity [10] (Reason)

Shikha Dalmia: Carbon trading is a big bust [11](Reason)

Some advice for the Fed chairman [12](Cato)

How Ireland became the Celtic Tiger [13] (Heritage)


Fact and Fiction about Gasoline Prices [14]
Cato Institute
Washington, D.C., June 30

The Quotable Jefferson [15]
Cato Institute
Washington, D.C., July 6

Boeing vs. Airbus: The Plot Thickens [16]
American Enterprise Institute
Washington, D.C., July 6
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[1] http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2006/20060628170247.aspx
[2] http://www.businessandmedia.org/webclips/2006/housing0615.wmv
[3] http://www.businessandmedia.org/commentary/2006/20060628114307.aspx
[4] http://www.businessandmedia.org/gbu/2006/gbu20060628.asp
[5] http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2006/20060628120728.aspx
[6] http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2006/20060627135331.aspx
[7] http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2006/20060626161630.aspx
[8] https://www.mediaresearch.org/secure/freemarketproject/welcome.asp
[9] http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/06/philanthropy-vs-free-trade.html
[10] http://www.reason.com/links/links062206.shtml
[11] http://www.reason.org/commentaries/dalmia_20060622.shtml
[12] http://cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6451
[13] http://www.heritage.org/Research/WorldwideFreedom/bg1945.cfm
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