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.

ABC Treats Rise in Consumer Confidence as Bad News
Dan Gainor | August 20, 2008

     When is an increase in consumer confidence bad news? When ABC reports it.

 

     Network anchor George Stephanopoulos led off the August 19 "World News" with this gloom-and-doom…

Govt's 4-Day Work Week Doesn't Work
Dan Gainor | August 13, 2008
     “Welcome to the four-day working week,” with apologies to Elvis Costello. That’s right, the four-day work week has arrived – at least according to the media and assorted politicians.     High gas prices have given way to a new kind of highway…
Post Drills Holes in Arguments Against Offshore Oil
Dan Gainor | August 12, 2008

    It’s not often that you can point to The Washington Post as the voice of reason, but the paper has its moments. One such was the August 12 oil drilling editorial that debunks three major “‘truths’ masquerading as fact” about…

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac: Boondoggle, Bias, Bailout & Billions
Dan Gainor | August 6, 2008
     Six years.      That’s how long it took for the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac crisis to grow from warning sign to $25-billion bailout.       In most cases, six years is ample warning. We won WWII in less time. But when The Wall Street Journal compared…
CNBC Blog Credits Obama with Oil Drop
Dan Gainor | August 4, 2008

     The price of oil continues to plunge – off more than $25 a barrel from its high. Naturally, someone was bound to credit … Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Only one problem, the financial expert who did so…

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, for Tomorrow We Die
Dan Gainor | June 18, 2008

     “We’re going to scare you to death.”

     That’s not the advertising slogan for “Saw XVII.” It might well be the motto of modern journalism. “If it bleeds, it leads” has always been a news motto. Somewhere along the way, news went…