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.

Gassing Up
Dan Gainor | May 9, 2007

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If you want to drive faster, you hit the gas. Network news shows that want higher ratings do the same thing, except they hit gas prices.      Now that gasoline has topped $3 nationally for 2007, the networks are…

Gassing Up: Executive Summary
Dan Gainor | May 9, 2007

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Gas prices have again passed $3 a gallon. But Americans should be used to high prices by now – the mainstream media have been warning them of $4, $5 and even $6 a gallon for more than two years. According to a May 7, 2007,…

Journalists Give Viewers the High Test on Gas
Dan Gainor | May 9, 2007

     Head for the hills; gas prices are over $3 – just make sure you carpool.

     That’s the message network Chicken Littles are telling viewers as they hype so-called “record prices” and warn of an economic cataclysm tied to $4-, $5-…

Eco-Extremist Wants World Population to Drop below 1 Billion
Dan Gainor | May 6, 2007

     Apparently, saving the whales is more important than saving 5.5 billion people. Paul Watson, founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and famous for militant intervention to stop whalers, now warns…

BusinessWeek: Private Roads a Dead End
Dan Gainor | May 1, 2007

     Want to buy the Brooklyn Bridge? It’s not for sale, but even if it were, BusinessWeek doesn’t think you should be able to buy it.

 

     The May 7 issue warned that “privateers” (…

CNN's Wastler Backs $1 Gas Tax Hike
Dan Gainor | April 30, 2007

     Gas prices are high, but CNN wants them higher. Lots higher. CNN’s Allen Wastler told viewers April 28 that the government should increase the price with a huge new tax. “Put in a tax to make it $4 a gallon right now,” he…