Dan Gainor
Vice President for Free Speech America and Business for the Media Research Center

Dan Gainor is the Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow and Vice President for Free Speech America and Business for the Media Research Center. He has worked for the MRC for 16 years and writes a regular weekly column for FoxNews.com about media bias. He has appeared on several thousand radio and TV shows on nearly all major networks — Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, CNNHLN, CNBC, ABC, NBC, PBS and many more — to discuss biased news media. Mr. Gainor holds an MBA from the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business and a master’s in publications design from the University of Baltimore. As an undergraduate, he majored in political science and history at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Media Have 'Special Interest' in Pushing Health Care Reform
Dan Gainor | August 26, 2009

We need to get special interests out of politics. They spoil everything.

For once President Barack Obama is right: special interests are messing up health care reform. “Every time we are in sight of health insurance reform, the special…

The Peasants Are Revolting
Dan Gainor | August 19, 2009

Count de Monet: “It is said that the people are revolting.”

King Louis XVI: “You said it. They stink on ice.”

– “History of the World: Part I”

Out of the mouths of babes … and B-movie comedies come our words of wisdom.…

CNN's 'Explainer' on Health Care Makes a Big Mistake
Dan Gainor | August 17, 2009

Listen to President Barack Obama and there are “nearly 46 million” reasons for health care reform. That, according to the president as recently as August 11, is the number of uninsured Americans.

 

He’s wrong, according to a…

Post Pulitzer Prize Winner: GOP 'Political Terrorists'
Dan Gainor | August 7, 2009

The left and the media commonly blame conservatives for hate speech. But as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proved with her Nazi comment, the left is often the real guilty party. The latest example of this hypocrisy is The Washington Post’s Steven…

Experts Put the Con in E-con-omics
Dan Gainor | August 4, 2009

What goes up must come down. Unless it goes down further, sideways or moves some other way that no one really predicted.

That’s the way economics really works and no matter how many talking heads – right, left and center – tell you…

5 Reasons Journalists Love Higher Gas Prices
Dan Gainor | July 29, 2009

It’s the peak of summer – when sane people vacation and even Congress has recess. Last summer, it was also time for gas prices that peaked at stratospheric sums.

This summer not so much. While drivers might be thrilled, America’s media…