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).
Author Articles
7/18/2014 12:51 AM ET
Amazingly, Chris Matthews concluded Thursday’s Hardball by
playing clips of how President Ronald Reagan reacted the Soviet
shootdown of a Korean Air Lines 747 passenger jet in 1983 – even ...
7/14/2014 2:58 PM ET
Julianna Goldman, who endured a marriage to former MSNBC host/reporter David Shuster, got married
on Saturday, in Aspen, Colorado, to Michael Gottlieb, a former associate
White House counsel ...
7/12/2014 1:09 PM ET
For a few brief seconds on Friday night, Bill Maher made sense. Maher,
who could be described as a “useless Obama hack” – after all, he’s a big
donor to Obama and a constant defender of him ...
6/29/2014 7:56 PM ET
If only there were an Obama scandal for journalists to cover. Almost exactly two years after the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank ludicrously claimed “the media would love to have an Obama scandal ...
6/28/2014 10:13 AM ET
Graphic novelist Max Brooks, a former writer for Saturday Night Live, charged on Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher that Tea Party “ideologues” are just like the Nazi “ideologues” who fooled ...
6/16/2014 7:09 PM ET
William Devane, who plays “President James Heller” on Fox’s prime time 24: Live Another Day, told USA Today
that “obviously I’m a big fan of Obama, as a guy who’s smart and
articulate” and, in ...
6/16/2014 8:24 AM ET
Jane Pauley, who campaigned for Barack Obama in 2008 as she declared “I want to see the cool, steady hand of Barack Obama on that Bible on Inauguration Day,” on CBS’s Sunday Morning
pleaded ...
6/14/2014 2:38 PM ET
Discussing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s surprising primary loss, on Friday’s Washington Week on PBS, John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC, a regular on NBC and MSNBC, and a ...
5/30/2014 9:14 PM ET
Hillary Clinton is managing to do what conservatives cannot: get
Benghazi into the news – but only to showcase her heroic efforts to take
on those awful Republicans. ABC anchor David Muir on ...
5/29/2014 7:48 PM ET
America suffered an economic setback in the first quarter of the year as
the GDP for Obama’s economy was revised downward Thursday morning to a
negative one percent, yet neither ABC’s World ...
5/28/2014 8:39 PM ET
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, on Wednesday evening,
discovered the promise of a “muscular” foreign policy in President
Barack Obama’s West Point military academy speech, asserting ...
5/14/2014 7:52 PM ET
Another educational illustration, on FX’s The Americans,
of the alliance of interests between Soviet communists and the Left in
the West during the 1980s, when both worked to undermine the ...
5/13/2014 8:56 PM ET
Moving to discredit, as illegitimate, Republican operative Karl Rove’s inquiry about Hillary Clinton’s health, on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams denounced the “smear campaign” ...
5/13/2014 1:11 AM ET
“I say the poll is ridiculous,” Bernard Goldberg declared on Monday’s O’Reilly Factor
in doubting the accuracy of a survey in which 28 percent of journalists
self-identified as Democrats and ...
5/6/2014 8:55 AM ET
In a just-released survey conducted in late 2013, of 1,080 television
network, print and online journalists, 28 percent self-identified as
Democrats and only one-fourth as many, a piddling ...
5/4/2014 2:06 AM ET
Joel McHale,
the comedy performer at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’
Association dinner, delivered some zingers at the cable networks, the
President and Democrats, but ...
5/3/2014 8:08 PM ET
Comedian Don Rickles told David Letterman, on Friday’s Late Show,
that “the highlight of my life was doing the Ronald Reagan Inaugural,”
the 87-year-old (88 on May 8) recalled of his legendary ...
5/2/2014 8:52 AM ET
Columnist Charles Krauthammer contended, on Thursday’s Special Report with Bret Baier,
that the release of the Ben Rhodes memo has changed the media dynamic
in interest toward the Benghazi ...
4/23/2014 7:32 PM ET
Sounding remarkably like American liberals and journalists at the time – not to be redundant – last week’s episode of FX’s The Americans
set in the early 1980s, included a scene
in which a KGB ...
4/17/2014 8:41 PM ET
On Wednesday morning, December 12, 2012, Jenna Bush Hager Bush
announced on NBC’s Today show that she was expecting. That evening, the NBC Nightly News allocated 33 seconds to the revelation ...
