Dan Gainor

Vice President of Business and Culture

Vice President of Business & Culture for the MRC

Dan Gainor, The Vice President of Business and Culture for the MRC, is a veteran editor with more than two decades of experience in print and online media. He has appeared a number of times on the Fox Business Network and writes for The Fox Forum. He has served as an editor at several newspapers including The Washington Times and The Baltimore News-American. Mr. Gainor also has extensive experience in online publishing – holding the position of managing editor for CQ.com, the Web site of Congressional Quarterly, and executive editor for ChangeWave, published by Phillips International. He has worked in financial publishing in his last two positions, launching new services for ChangeWave and Agora Inc. Mr. Gainor holds an MBA from the University of Maryland’s 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. Mr. Gainor lives in Maryland and volunteers as a media and issues speaker with the Close-Up Foundation. 

Gainor has made hundreds of radio and TV appearances. In addition to the Fox Business Network, his appearances include: CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” and “Fox & Friends,” as well as CNN’s “Paul Zahn Now.” He has appeared on local or national radio shows in every state including: the Jerry Doyle Show, The John Gibson Show, the Rusty Humphries Show, Phil Valentine Show, POTUS on XM Satellite Radio , the Thom Hartmann Show, Money & More, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, America at Night, Dateline Washington, the Lars Larson Show, the Jim Bohannon Show, Home Talk USA, The Weekend, Mancow, Money Dots on Main Street USA, American Family Radio, the Chuck Harder Show, Battleline with Alan Nathan, The Right Balance, Janet Parshall’s America and Entertainment USA. 

He has been published in a wide variety of publications, including: Investor’s Business Daily, The Washington Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Orange County Register, the New York Post, the Baltimore Examiner, Canada’s National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Augusta Free Press, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Houghton Daily Mining Gazette, the Port Clinton, Ohio Beacon, Contacto Magazine, the Caribbean Voice, the Newtown Bee, the Frederick News-Post, The High Point Enterprise, the Easton Star Democrat, the Midland Daily News, the Findlay, Ohio, Courier, and the Simi Valley, Calif., Acorn.

Author Articles

Morning Shows Fill Up With Hype on Gas Prices

Networks emphasize $3-per-gallon prices when average price is $2.37.

CBS Delivers A Steady Diet Of One-Sided Coverage

Network skews lawsuit story toward government and virtually ignores defendant

Media Find Current TV Electrifying

Stories downplay negatives, fawn over Al Gore, businessman as out to change the world.

Journal Story Describes the End of the World As We Know It

Harvard professors connection of current events to pre-World War I ignores mountains of good economic news.

Times Blinded By Hazy View of Reality

Dramatically cleaner air downplayed in a story about threats to Clean Air Act because troubles remain.

Atkins Bankruptcy Stories on Low-Substance Diet

Media focus on end to a craze, but wheres the beef about how business responded with healthy lifestyle foods?

Media Downplay 25 Percent Tax Promoted By Democrats

Journalists fail to link think tank study with senators connected to group that researched it.

NBC Weighs In Against Businesses

Network complains that companies discriminate based on appearance.

Crazy 8s: Executive Summary

Live 8, G-8 coverage cheerleads sending billions of U.S. dollars to Africa

Crazy 8s

Live 8, G-8 coverage cheerleads sending billions of U.S. dollars to Africa

Business & Media Institute Re-Launches Web Site With Added Features

Upgraded site offers more content as BMI prepares launch of new newsletter.

Logo Shows Freedom is Foundation for a Free Market

Logo Shows Freedom is Foundation for a Free Market

CNNs Henry Misrepresents Personal Accounts Polls

Claims public doesnt support private accounts, but facts show otherwise.

Post Spins History to Attack Business

Reparations story calls slavery a crime and fails to remind readers that it really wasnt.

30 Days of Supersized Guilt

Morgan Spurlock shows how difficult it is to pretend to be poor.

Social Security Debate

Free market defenders fight for ownership, while reform opponents want to increase biggest government program ever.

USA Today Decides Climate Debate Over

The nations newspaper disregards scientific criticisms of global warming theory and doesnt include any scientific opposition in its one-sided cover story.

Is Greenspan Wary of Housing Problems?

Even the major media have trouble agreeing just what the Fed Chairman said.

FX Looks Left to Peak at Oil

Energy apocalypse is one big worst-case scenario

ABC Helps Officials Beef About Their Own Statistics

World News Tonight weighs in on the side of the Centers for Disease Control about obesity.