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.

Greed Isn't Good, But It Isn't That Bad, Either
Dan Gainor | October 15, 2008

     America has always valued success. But at the same time, we’ve had a love affair with class warfare. Big businessmen – railroad tycoons, bankers and cattlemen – became easy targets for our discontent.   …

Will Journalists Finally Get the Recession They Crave?
Dan Gainor | October 7, 2008
     What a week! Capitol Hill battles over the bailout. Wall Street tumbles. Anchor John Roberts tells us “economists are now warning of a new recession.”      Oops. That last bit comes from May 2004 – right as the recovery from the previous…
Time Warp: Magazine Award Finalist for Offensive Iwo Jima Cover
Dan Gainor | October 2, 2008

     How do you get nominated for a magazine award? Do something that offends almost everyone and tears down an American icon at the same time. Even better, claim you were just trying to get “attention.”

     That’s certainly the…

Journalists 'Parsing' Economic Words? Not This 'Crisis'
Dan Gainor | October 1, 2008

     We got a harsh reminder this week that “Dow” can be a shortened form of the word “Down.” Way down. Monday, the Dow dumped 777 points, a near-7-percent drop. The media that had hollered about economic problems when there were none, finally…

Lauer Asks if Foreclosure Buyers Tempting 'Bad Karma'
Dan Gainor | September 26, 2008

     NBC wants to help you find the “silver lining in the economic cloud.” Just don’t listen to “Today” host Matt Lauer.

 

     The Sept. 26 show brought on three financial experts to help…

Melting, Melting ... Well, Not Exactly
Dan Gainor | September 24, 2008
     With the “meltdown” on Wall Street, it looks like global warming is striking the financial markets.      Don’t laugh. It must have gone somewhere because it’s not doing as the left and the media had warned. Just a few months ago, supposedly…