Dan Gainor

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Dan Gainor

Dan Gainor and the Business and Media Institute

Gainor holds a MBA and a master’s degree in publications design.

Gainor is listed as the Vice President of the Business and Media Institute (BMI), a DC-based freemarket think tank. BMI is a project of another organization called the Media Research Institute - which also operates a website called Newsbusters.

BMI describes its mission as "[auditing] the media’s coverage of the free enterprise system."

The Media Research Institute has received just over $200,000 in funding from oil-giant ExxonMobil, as well as $1.9 million in grants from the Scaife Foundation, financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune.

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About the climate cover-up

Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.

There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.

Although all public relations professionals are bound by a duty to not knowingly mislead the public, some have executed comprehensive campaigns of misinformation on behalf of industry clients on issues ranging from tobacco and asbestos to seat belts.

Lately, these fringe players have turned their efforts to creating confusion about climate change. This PR campaign could not be accomplished without the compliance of media as well as the assent and participation of leaders in government and business.