Brent Baker

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
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For Schieffer, GOP ‘Too Far to the Right’ and Too Obsessed with Birth Control While Obama Presidency Succeeding

CBS’s Bob Schieffer, on Sunday morning’s Face the Nation, pressed Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie over how Republicans have moved “too far to the right” to win before cuing up ...
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Judge on CBS Prime Time Drama Cheers ‘Amazing’ Occupy Protesters: ‘I Salute Them’

Occupy Wall Street earned a shout-out Sunday night on a CBS drama, the kind of Hollywood affirmation the Tea Party could never dream of receiving. “Before we begin,” a judge announced in a ...
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MTP’s Gregory Frames Election Through Liberal Prism: ‘The Year of Birth Control Moms’

“GOP says HHS mandate is about liberty, not contraception. Dems say it’s about contraception, not liberty. Media accept and amplify Democratic framing.” So the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes ...
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CBS Cues Up GM’s CEO to Proclaim Obama Saved GM – and the Country

“Did President Obama save General Motors?” CBS’s Dean Reynolds asked General Motors Chairman and CEO Daniel Akerson as both sat inside a GM plant. On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, Akerson ...
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ABC Showcases Chrysler Workers to Decry Romney’s Opposition to Bailout

Previewing the Michigan primary, ABC’s David Muir found three Chrysler workers to boast of how the Obama administration’s auto bailout “worked” and “it would have been devastating” if Mitt Romney ...
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Actress Who Plays Palin Found Her Selection ‘Pretty Terrifying’

The prospect of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008 was “pretty terrifying” to actress Julianne Moore, who plays Palin in HBO’s upcoming Game Change movie about the ...
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Washington Post’s Ignatius Hails Obama’s Nimble Contraception Policy; Will Zings Bishops: ‘It Serves Them Right’

“I was struck looking at this,” Washington Post columnist and former foreign editor David Ignatius expressed on ABC’s This Week in admiring how Barack Obama on Friday adjusted the contraception ...
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Pew: Record High 67% See Political Bias in News Media

The downward slide of media credibility continues. A Pew survey released a few days ago found 67 percent of Americans see “a great deal” or “fair amount” of “political bias” in the news media, ...
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Santorum Nomination 'Completely Terrifies' Economist Magazine's Economics Editor

Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Zanny Minton Beddoes, the economics editor for the Economist magazine, expressed dread that the possibility Rick Santorum could win the Republican ...
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CNN Reporters Call CPAC a ‘Conservative Petri Dish’

Shortly before noon Thursday, live from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), CNN political reporter Peter Hamby described the gathering as a “conservative petri dish” to ...

NBC Nightly News Finally Mentions Obama Mandate Imposition on Catholics; Still Waiting for ABC and CBS

NBC Nightly News on Monday lifted its two-plus week blackout of the Obama administration's decision to force religious institutions, such as Catholic hospitals and charities, to provide birth ...

Network Newscast Blackout of Mandate on Catholics Continues, But Sunday Talk Shows Take It Up

The broadcast network evening and morning newscast blackout, of the Obama administration plan to force health insurance offered by Catholic charities and hospitals to cover sterilization, ...

Alec Baldwin Names Thank You Call from Ted Kennedy the 'Greatest Moment' of His Life

Actor/left-wing activist Alec Baldwin, who on Sunday night won a Screen Actors Guild Award (best actor in a comedy series) for his role on NBC's 30 Rock, last week identified the "greatest single ...

Appalled Schieffer Blasts 'Vulgar' and 'Rude' Brewer: 'We're a Better People Than This'

A question we've never posed and likely no one outside of CBS News has ever considered: "We wondered what Bob Schieffer thinks of all of this?" Yet that's how CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley ...

'The Secretary Speaks!' ABC Again Champion's Obama's Poster Girl for Higher Taxes, Contrasts Her Rate with Romney's

"The secretary speaks," ABC fill-in anchor David Muir excitedly teased at the top of Wednesday's World News, "billionaire investor Warren Buffett and his secretary, who pays a much-higher tax rate ...

NBC's Mitchell: 'Very Hard to Say Obama Apologizing for America,' Hails 'Exquisite Contrast' with Romney

After President Barack Obama finished his State of the Union address, on NBC Andrea Mitchell set to work to convince viewers of how he had discredited Mitt Romney's campaign trail criticisms of ...

Nets Use Romney's Taxes to Advance Obama's False 'Fairness' Narrative

Hours before President Barack Obama's third State of the Union address in which he will push higher tax rates on the wealthiest under the guise of "fairness," pivoting off the poster woman for ...

TV Pundits, Left and Right, Insist Gingrich Cannot Win, Would Drag Down Entire Party in Fall

Given his high unfavorable rating, Newt Gingrich "cannot win a national election," MSNBC's very liberal host Lawrence O'Donnell insisted, "it's impossible." O'Donnell's assessment, however, is ...

Maher Brings Aboard Moyers Who's Glad He Has 'Confederate Money' in Case Gingrich Wins

To Bill Maher's delight, Bill Moyers charged "the delusional fringe has come in from the margin and runs" the Republican Party before he alleged Newt Gingrich is "playing the race card" and so, he ...

ABC's Sawyer Trumpets 'Occupy Igloos' at 'Camp Igloo' in Switzerland

Diane Sawyer remains enthralled with the far-left "Occupy" protesters. Last October she championed "the Occupy Wall Street movement" by ludicrously claiming "it has spread to more than 250 ...