the Steven P.J. Wood Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research and Publications
Brent H. Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center (MRC), has been a central figure at the MRC since its 1987 founding. In 2001, Weekly Standard Executive Editor Fred Barnes dubbed Baker “the scourge of liberal bias.” In 2005, Baker spearheaded the launch of the MRC’s NewsBusters blog (his blog postings).
Follow Baker via Twitter. (Full bio) Washington Examiner's weekly "Mainstream Media Scream," with Baker's scream rating, are on NewsBusters as of January 2015. Read them here. (On MRC.org: archive of 2014; archive of June-December 2013; archive of Jan. 2012 through June 2013).
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6/6/2011 4:25 AM ET
Looking at government as the best job creator, on Sunday's This Week ABC's Christiane Amanpour pushed her guests to agree the stagnant economy and growing unemployment argue for less concern about ...
6/2/2011 8:40 AM ET
In a story which ironically included a soundbite from Republican Congressman Paul Ryan denouncing demagoguery on budget decisions, ABC's Jake Tapper on Wednesday night sank to employing some of ...
6/2/2011 8:26 AM ET
ABC and CBS on Wednesday night allocated full stories to Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner and the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account, but not the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. ...
6/1/2011 1:52 AM ET
"GOP presidential contenders drift to the right," reads the headline over a dispatch by the AP's Charles Babington who devoted an entire story to fears "Republican candidates are drifting ...
5/31/2011 9:00 AM ET
"Do you think the Tea Party is losing some of its appeal?" So Harry Smith cued up a hardly independent guest on Sunday's Face the Nation: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chair of the DNC. Meanwhile, ...
5/27/2011 2:14 PM ET
Saturday night (May 28) C-SPAN will air the Media Research Center's "DisHonors Awards," and presentation of the "William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence," which took place May 7 at the ...
5/27/2011 10:07 AM ET
The evening newscasts on Thursday night eagerly devoted time to fresh speculation, prompted by Sarah Palin's upcoming bus trip from Washington, DC to New Hampshire, that she may jump into the ...
5/26/2011 2:00 AM ET
In full retreat, a humiliated and somber Ed Schultz opened his MSNBC show on Wednesday night by apologizing to Laura Ingraham for using, on his radio show, "vile and inappropriate language" to ...
5/25/2011 1:10 AM ET
Plugging an upcoming story on Tuesday's CBS Evening News, anchor Russ Mitchell highlighted that "Congress gives Israel's Prime Minister dozens of standing ovations but," Mitchell warned as if it ...
5/24/2011 9:12 AM ET
ABC's Diane Sawyer on Monday night presumed everyone lives inside her media bubble obsessed with "global warming" as she set out to blame the Missouri tornadoes on it ' but not even the CEO of a ...
5/23/2011 9:02 AM ET
NBC's Andrea Mitchell on Sunday conceded "Paul Ryan has shown considerable guts" with his Medicare plan, but she declared liberal Democratic Congressman Chris Van Hollen is "correct that nobody on ...
5/20/2011 2:10 AM ET
Ending her final night as anchor of the CBS Evening News with a "five years in five minutes" video retrospective, Katie Couric went out in sync with how she conducted herself since 2006 ' ...
5/17/2011 10:31 AM ET
Feigning interest in Republican presidential prospects, on Monday night NBC Political Director Chuck Todd contended the decisions by Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee to forgo presidential runs ...
5/16/2011 8:19 AM ET
Two days after liberal Democratic politician/CNN host Eliot Spitzer told fellow CNN host Fareed Zakaria it "brought a smile to my face" to learn President Obama "calls you for wisdom and advice," ...
5/16/2011 1:18 AM ET
With "Cal's High Honor" as the on-screen tag, the Fox News Channel on Saturday highlighted video of Fox News Watch panelist Cal Thomas receiving the Media Research Center's "William F. Buckley Jr. ...
5/13/2011 9:28 AM ET
ABC News announced Thursday that Rick Kaplan, a long-time (FOB) Friend of Bill (Clinton) who used his high-level network news positions to protect his friend, will take the helm at ABC's This Week ...
5/11/2011 9:43 AM ET
Pedro Ramirez knows his "future depends on" President Barack Obama's success in passing "immigration reform," specifically the "Dream Act," CBS's John Blackstone asserted in a Tuesday night story ...
5/10/2011 9:45 AM ET
Monday's Washington Times and Washington Examiner wrote up short items on the MRC's Saturday night gala. "The Media Research Center's 2011 'Dishonors Awards' for the most liberally biased news ...
5/9/2011 6:54 AM ET
Neal Boortz, Ann Coulter, Andrew Klavan, Erick Erickson, Congressman Steve King and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and a performance by The Outlaws band highlighted the MRC's "2011 Gala ...
5/6/2011 2:35 AM ET
Scott Pelley, the incoming anchor for the CBS Evening News, dropped by Washington, DC's CBS affiliate on Wednesday where he mimicked left-wing MSNBC's "Lean Forward" slogan as he promised: "We're ...
