BMI's Gainor: Media Negativity on Economy Hurts Consumer Confidence

May 21st, 2008 4:59 PM
Dan Gainor, Vice President for the Business & Media Institute, blamed part of people's gloomy perception of the economy on the "constant drumbeat" of negativity coming from the news media. Gainor appeared on Fox Business Network's "Cavuto" May 20. "Almost 23 million people watch evening news every night. That has an affect and that's almost 1/10 of the American population. Those are people…

BMI's Gainor On 'Fox and Friends' Discusses Time's Iwo Jima-Mocking Co

April 21st, 2008 12:28 PM
Dan Gainor appeared on Fox News's "Fox and Friends" to talk about the latest issue of Time magazine, which had a Photoshopped cover of World War II Marines raising a tree instead of the American flag at Iwo Jima. Gainor told viewers of the Saturday morning broadcast April 19, "Time magazine basically tried to co-op an icon of American heroism to push their global warming agenda. They're trying to…

Gainor in IBD: Journalists Contribute to Economic Pessimism

April 7th, 2008 1:52 PM

BMI’s Gainor: ‘Maybe We’re Using Too Much Government Interventio

April 7th, 2008 9:57 AM

BMI’s Gainor: ‘Stewardship’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Lunacy

March 6th, 2008 5:10 PM
Business & Media Institute Vice President Dan Gainor told viewers of the Fox Business Network that stewardship of the environment "doesn't mean you have to embrace every bit of global warming lunacy that comes down the pike."In his March 6 appearance, Gainor discussed BMI's new report, "Global Warming Censored," showed that network news shows routinely shut out debate on climate issues, even…

BMI’s Gainor Talks Depression Coverage on Fox Biz

February 29th, 2008 9:23 AM
BMI Vice President Dan Gainor took to the Fox Business Network Thursday to explain the difference between "depression," "recession" and "slow growth," terms the mainstream media has blurred.Economists "don't even agree that we're in a recession yet," Gainor said. "But then if you watch the network news shows, we're already up to eight times this year - that's once a week where they've made a…

Fox Biz’s Claman: ‘We’re Nowhere Near the Great Depression

February 15th, 2008 4:49 PM
Vice President of the Business & Media Institute Dan Gainor outlined the media's failure in covering consumer confidence numbers in a February 15 appearance on the Fox Business Network."What we're talking about, instead of consumer confidence, we're talking about media competence," Gainor said. "Last year, July was the six-year high for consumer confidence and yet if you watch any one of the…

BMI’s Gainor Criticizes Media for Coverage of ‘Flash, Not Substanc

February 8th, 2008 4:41 PM
In an appearance on the Fox Business Network February 8, Business & Media Institute Vice President Dan Gainor criticized the media's refusal to fully report the costs associated with campaign promises being made by presidential candidates."You would actually think the media had talked about how much it's going to cost," Gainor said of the hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending…

Dan Gainor Appears on Fox Biz to Discuss Bad Biz at NYT

February 1st, 2008 9:43 AM
Business & Media Institute Director Dan Gainor appeared on the Fox Business Network January 31 to discuss reasons why The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) revenue numbers decreased recently - saying that its product is the problem. "People have lost confidence in the media according to most studies...Most Americans understand that the...mainstream media are overwhelmingly liberal,…

Dan Gainor Praises Velshi, Golodryga on FBN

December 26th, 2007 9:13 AM
Business & Media Institute Director Dan Gainor appeared on the Fox Business Network December 21, 2007, to discuss the media's coverage of the economy. Full of Christmas spirit, Gainor had kind words for two mainstream reporters."Even in the mainstream media there are people who get it. Looking back this year one of the big stars whose improvement was surprising is CNN's Ali Velshi who…

Dan Gainor on Fox Biz Discussing Media’s Coverage of Subprime Mortga

December 6th, 2007 5:50 PM

BMI Director Dan Gainor on ‘Fox and Friends

November 26th, 2007 12:00 PM
Just in time for Thanksgiving, BMI Director Dan Gainor stopped by ‘Fox and Friends' to remind everyone that the economy is not as bad as people think, and that despite what the media said about your Thanksgiving dinner, it wasn't that bad. "If you look at the inflation-adjusted number, it [Thanksgiving dinner] is actually 9 percent cheaper over the last 20 years," Gainor said…

BMI’s Gainor Discusses Media’s Downbeat Economic Coverage

November 15th, 2007 5:03 PM

Dan Gainor Discusses 'Going Green' on CNBC’s Power Lunch

November 9th, 2007 3:27 PM
Is it time for more businesses to ‘go green'? Not so fast, says Director of the Business & Media Institute Dan Gainor. Gainor appeared on CNBC's "Power Lunch" November 9 to discuss business investment in green products, a popular story on many news programs."The problem is companies are spending tons of green, going green...for some things, Wal-Mart has found some solutions that make a lot of…