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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5/1/2011 7:11 PM ET
"This week - budget blowback," Christiane Amanpour trumpeted in framing her Sunday look, at reaction to Republican Congressman Paul Ryan's proposed budget plan, through those hostile to it, ...
4/29/2011 7:40 AM ET
Like clockwork, an unusual weather event occurs and some shallow journalists immediately leap to speculating about global warming ' even accusing humankind of causing the event. On Thursday night, ...
4/27/2011 9:23 AM ET
Picking up from flustered colleague Bob Schieffer, who on the April 17 Face the Nation demanded of Congressman Paul Ryan, "Why do these rich people need another tax cut? I mean, they're already ...
4/26/2011 8:39 AM ET
Regurgitating the same kind of derogatory comments he regularly spews on his Friday night HBO show, Bill Maher showed up Monday night on the Late Show with David Letterman where CBS, unlike HBO, ...
4/23/2011 1:46 AM ET
On Friday night, the Fox News Channel debuted a Hannity special, 'Behind the Bias: The History of Liberal Media.' The hour began with what Sean Hannity described as "how and why this bias began," ...
4/22/2011 9:02 AM ET
Tonight (Friday) the Fox News Channel will air a Hannity special, in his usual time slot, 'Behind the Bias: The History of Liberal Media.' The promo declares: "Double standards? Groundless ...
4/19/2011 8:59 AM ET
A day after a CBS News Sunday Morning story fretted that the wealthy aren't paying a high-enough income tax rate without bothering to note how a significant portion of the population avoids paying ...
4/18/2011 9:12 AM ET
CBS News on Sunday morning managed to examine incongruities in the U.S. tax system, highlighting those ' including a former New York Times reporter ' who think the wealthy aren't paying enough, ...
4/17/2011 11:31 PM ET
"Why do these rich people need another tax cut?" Bob Schieffer demanded of his guest on Sunday morning's Face the Nation, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan. Conveying his no-so-profound economic ...
4/13/2011 2:24 AM ET
"Critics say it's about time" for President Barack Obama to offer his plan to reduce the deficit, CBS's Chip Reid acknowledged Tuesday night before he proceeded to rationalize Obama's ...
4/11/2011 9:23 AM ET
A round-up from over the weekend of journalists denouncing Republican Congressman Paul Ryan for not including a big tax hike in his deficit-reduction plan and discrediting the Tea Party's pressure ...
4/8/2011 9:09 AM ET
Instead of being embarrassed by how their story generated a talking point for the President to use in a partisan political battle, ABC on Thursday night boasted of how President Obama cited Jake ...
4/7/2011 9:00 AM ET
It's a cliche that a federal shutdown would send liberals and journalists scurrying to show people harmed by highlighting a closed Washington Monument and disappointed tourists ' a cliche ABC's ...
4/4/2011 8:57 AM ET
In an argument which would make his ex-NPR colleagues proud, Juan Williams took to Fox News Sunday to push for tax hikes to reduce the deficit. Scolding Brit Hume, an exasperated Williams ...
3/30/2011 9:19 AM ET
ABC's Diane Sawyer stood out for her obsequiousness as she brought up the college basketball tournament: "How much do you think Kentucky will win by?" She cued up President Obama to agree he's as ...
3/24/2011 9:06 AM ET
Wednesday's CBS Evening News celebrated the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare by touting its benefits before Katie Couric, who devoted half her newscast to Elizabeth Taylor's passing, fretted: ...
3/21/2011 8:39 AM ET
NBC's Andrea Mitchell on Sunday's Meet the Press trumpeted now-President Obama's Libya action: "This was pretty remarkable ' bringing this whole coalition together and getting the Arab League" to ...
3/16/2011 11:38 PM ET
Diane Sawyer allocated all but 1:37 of World News to Japan on Wednesday night, committing 33 seconds of that limited time to touting President Obama's NCAA basketball picks provided to ABC ...
3/13/2011 10:45 AM ET
ABC's Bill Weir inaccurately complained Friday night: "Our House of Representatives voted to slash funding for the Hawaiian tsunami warning center." Then on Saturday night, Clayton Sandell cued up ...
3/12/2011 2:55 PM ET
Actor Alan Cumming (IMDb page), who was born in Britain and plays the scheming campaign manager "Eli Gold" on CBS's The Good Wife, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last week: "I wanted to become a ...
