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
4/23/2012 7:39 PM ET
Keith Olbermann, ousted from MSNBC and even Al Gore’s Current TV, was
nevertheless invited to join the roundtable on Sunday’s ABC This Week,
where he spouted about how rising gas prices are ...
4/16/2012 11:37 AM ET
On Sunday’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos stumbled into the
truth when he told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that Mitt
Romney’s statistic, about how 92.3 percent of all job losses ...
4/15/2012 3:57 PM ET
Joe Muto, the self-described “weasel,” “traitor” and “sell-out” who for a few days last week was the “Fox News Mole” for Gawker.com until FNC identified him, disclosed on CNN’s Reliable ...
4/12/2012 8:24 AM ET
CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley was barely able to
contain his laughter Wednesday night after playing a clip of President
Obama invoking Ronald Reagan on behalf of his “Buffett Rule” tax ...
4/11/2012 10:23 PM ET
Pathetic. That best describes David Muir’s shoddy reporting on Wednesday’s ABC World News
in which he gleefully relayed an obviously ridiculous income tax rate for an
office manager for a ...
4/10/2012 9:37 PM ET
“It’ll probably work politically,” The Weekly Standard’s
Stephen Hayes observed of President Obama’s “fairness”-based “Buffett
Rule” tax hike quest, “but don’t reporters have a job to do ...
4/9/2012 2:05 PM ET
ABC’s Sunday night tribute to Mike Wallace, who passed away Saturday
night, highlighted several swipes at Ronald Reagan, thus, inadvertently
or not, painting the “legendary” 60 Minutes ...
4/9/2012 8:59 AM ET
When ABC’s Jake Tapper held up Andrew’s Sullivan’s “Forget the Church, Follow Jesus” Newsweek
cover story on how, as Tapper described Sullivan’s premise, “American
Christianity is in a ...
4/2/2012 11:59 PM ET
NBC anchor Brian Williams on Monday night used Republican troubles with
women to trumpet how “a former candidate, who now happens to be
Secretary of State, is speaking out.” Andrea Mitchell ...
4/2/2012 4:14 AM ET
An embarrassing performance Sunday for CBS’s Bob Schieffer in the debut of the new hour-long format for Face the Nation.
At least he should be embarrassed by the contrast in how he played ...
4/2/2012 4:05 AM ET
Reeling from the possibility the Supreme Court might undermine
ObamaCare, two members in good standing of the liberal media elite, both
with the New York Times, took to the Sunday shows to ...
3/25/2012 9:50 PM ET
Filling in for Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, Norah
O’Donnell hit Republican Congressman Paul Ryan from the left, using
White House talking points to contend his budget plan helps the rich ...
3/19/2012 9:52 AM ET
If only President Barack Obama were a Republican, then the public would
realize he has been “a very successful” President, but Democrats,
actor/activist George Clooney fretted, “are just ...
3/18/2012 11:05 PM ET
Another example of how out of touch the Washington press corps are with what is common knowledge amongst conservatives. On Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer was flummoxed by Mitt Romney’s ...
3/16/2012 10:04 AM ET
Obama administration officials in the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday they would pull all of Medicaid’s funding
for Texas’ Women’s Health Program because the state ...
3/11/2012 11:55 PM ET
Mitt Romney can’t close the deal with Republican primary voters because
too many don’t trust that he’s a real conservative, but on Sunday’s This Week,
host George Stephanopoulos pressured ...
3/6/2012 2:42 AM ET
ABC on Monday night rebuked the Republican presidential field for not
adequately condemning Rush Limbaugh for his “slut” characterization of
Sandra Fluke, for which he apologized on his Monday ...
3/5/2012 12:24 AM ET
No love on the Sunday morning television talk shows for Rush Limbaugh,
not even a mild defense as the unifying theme was disappointment in Mitt
Romney for not denouncing the leading national ...
3/2/2012 10:04 AM ET
Serving as the arm of MSNBC which actually has a significant audience, Thursday’s NBC Nightly News promoted a left-wing effort to impugn and silence Rush Limbaugh. “A firestorm of outrage from ...
3/1/2012 2:51 PM ET
About three years ago, Andrew Breitbart, who sadly passed away suddenly
this morning in Los Angeles, joined the Media Research Center at our 2009 Gala, featuring the annual “DisHonors Awards,” ...
