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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1/27/2015 1:58 PM ET
“Mainstream Media Screams,” for the Washington Examiner, for 2012 through 2014. Starting in 2015, posts are on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
1/22/2015 9:06 AM ET
Talking to a Cuban woman in Havana, NBC Nightly News anchor
Brian Williams despaired over what an influx of American tourists would
mean to the wonders of the communist “revolution” with its ...
12/31/2014 9:11 AM ET
The first runners-up quotes in the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of
2014: The Twenty-Seventh Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting,”
which this year we’ve dubbed the “Worst of the ...
12/29/2014 1:54 AM ET
The winning quotes in the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2014: The Twenty-Seventh Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting,” which this year we’ve dubbed the “Worst of the Worst.” Today and ...
11/18/2014 10:02 AM ET
National Review’s Jonah Goldberg went on a tear on Monday’s Special Report with Bret Baier, connecting the circles of lies by the White House and Jonathan Gruber that had impact thanks to liberal ...
11/10/2014 3:31 AM ET
In his pre-recorded Face the Nation sit-down with President
Barack Obama, CBS’s Bob Schieffer asked about putting
more troops into Iraq, fighting ISIS, giving Congress a chance to act
first ...
11/6/2014 9:27 AM ET
The latest in the annals of hyperventilating, far-left, excessive
environmental panic turned into personal demonization. When results came
in Tuesday night which put Republicans into the ...
11/4/2014 10:08 AM ET
Monday night on HBO viewers heard one of their stars call Rush Limbaugh
an “idiot” and charge “he’s a liar and a hatemonger – makes me want to
puke.” But it wasn’t Bill Maher. It was actress ...
11/2/2014 12:56 PM ET
Responding on Fox News Sunday to a question from a Facebook user about
the lack of a Republican agenda in this election, George Will zinged the
media’s effort to undermine the expected GOP ...
10/16/2014 7:51 AM ET
Wednesday’s USA Today featured a laudatory front page profile of Tom
Steyer, the far-left billionaire donor to efforts to elect liberals and
un-seat Republicans of all stripes – especially if ...
10/14/2014 9:01 AM ET
This post contains all the “Mainstream Media Screams” starting with June 17, 2013, the day the Washington Examiner became an online-only publication, through the end of 2013.
10/9/2014 3:43 PM ET
ABC’s Scandal,
which has a fresh episode tonight (Thursday), last week featured “President
Fitzgerald Grant,” supposedly a Republican, channeling Piers Morgan as
he used the State of the ...
10/6/2014 7:38 PM ET
Prompted by Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski to confirm “you watch Morning Joe, I take it?”, actor/author Ron Perlman affirmed: “I get all my news from MSNBC.” He then quickly quipped: “Which ...
9/29/2014 12:04 AM ET
Mark Levin, Congressman Jim Jordan, Alan Robertson, Stacey Dash, Larry Kudlow and Cleta Mitchell highlighted the MRC’s “2014 Gala featuring the DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously ...
9/22/2014 9:27 AM ET
If it’s Sunday, it’s time to advance liberal hopes. NBC’s Meet the Press with Chuck Todd and ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos both opened by plugging segments which forwarded the hope ...
9/15/2014 12:41 AM ET
The potshot of the weekend illustrates the visceral disgust in academia
toward the Fox News Channel. If Franklin Roosevelt were a candidate or
President today, FNC “would have loved” to show ...
9/12/2014 9:23 AM ET
CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Thursday night used the 9/11 anniversary as a
chance to chastise Presidents Bush and Obama for making declarations
that the war on terrorism had been won, but two and a ...
8/23/2014 3:47 PM ET
“What really gets” actress Chloe Grace Moretz “going” is Hillary Clinton, a USA Today reporter discovered in meeting her for a profile piece on the 17-year-old star of If I Stay, the movie which ...
8/10/2014 1:10 AM ET
Reid Cherlin, an Assistant Press Secretary during the first two years
plus of the Obama administration, managed to deliver two laugh-worthy
howlers in a piece for Rolling Stone posted this ...
7/26/2014 3:03 PM ET
Citing the 45th anniversary last week of the Apollo 11 landing on the
moon, Bill Maher on Friday night sneered: “I always hear that the moon
landing was the last great thing that America did. ...
