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.

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…

ABC Web Site Compares Current Day to Fall of Rome 'If We Don't Save Our Troubled Planet'
Dan Gainor | June 12, 2008

     Science fiction often suggests “The future is now.” ABC has taken that to heart and gone from reporting the news to predicting the future.

     Working with left-wing activists, the network is warning people that civilization is…

CACI's London Makes Strong Defense of 'Good Name'
Dan Gainor | June 4, 2008

     Truth, it is said, is the first casualty in war. CACI International Inc. Chairman of the Board Jack London found that out the hard way. His company went to Iraq to help the war effort.

     That commitment led employees to a war…

The Great Media Depression
Dan Gainor | May 29, 2008

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The year was 1929. The decade of the '20s was ending - not with a roar, but with a whimper. Years of a sky-high stock market and speculative buying were coming to a close. The Dow Jones had peaked on Sept. 3 at 381.…

The Great Media Depression: Executive Summary
Dan Gainor | May 29, 2008

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The economy consumes the nightly newscasts. Broadcast networks report that America's finances are 'like a house of cards.' ABC, CBS and NBC even hyped similarities to the Great Depression more than 40 times in the first…

America's Great Media Depression
Dan Gainor | May 28, 2008

     One look at statistics – from GDP growth to the unemployment rate – and it’s obvious this isn’t the worst economic time in U.S. history. But it might be the worst journalistically. The major media give us only two degrees of economic news…