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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3/10/2011 9:20 AM ET
Demonstrating how the media are an obstacle to any spending cuts, NBC and ABC on Wednesday night resorted to citing Sesame Street characters as potential "casualties in a war over culture and ...
3/6/2011 11:51 PM ET
Picking up on an argument made by economist Mark Zandi - whom the Washington Post described as "an architect of the 2009 stimulus package" - ABC's Christiane Amanpour on Sunday morning, presuming ...
3/1/2011 10:24 AM ET
Last May when a CBS News poll first asked about Arizona's immigration enforcement law and found majority support for it (52 percent), the CBS Evening News didn't report the finding. Now, with a ...
2/28/2011 2:43 AM ET
Catching up with a Thursday night appearance by Senator Rand Paul, Paul's segment on the Late Show exposed David Letterman as an arrogantly ill-informed ally of Wisconsin's public employee unions: ...
2/27/2011 4:11 PM ET
CBS's Bob Schieffer hit Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie from the left on Sunday's Face the Nation, claiming he has "demonized" teachers and urging him to give some "straight talk" ...
2/24/2011 9:24 AM ET
Tuesday night's The Good Wife on CBS gave prime time legitimacy to the presumption the Tea Party is racist as a lawyer in a courtroom tried to discredit an expert witness by demanding he admit ...
2/23/2011 10:54 PM ET
Human Rights Watch released a hardly comprehensive report, one "based on interviews with 64 parents across the country," which complained: "Just three countries definitively offer no legal ...
2/22/2011 9:40 AM ET
CBS on Monday night tried to corroborate the case for the position on protesting Wisconsin state union workers, claiming without citing any source that they earn less than comparable private ...
2/21/2011 9:17 AM ET
Last October, ABC's Christiane Amanpour characterized the Tea Party as "extreme," declaring "people are looking at the Tea Party and saying this is not conservatism as we knew it but it's ...
2/20/2011 2:49 PM ET
"The uprising at home," teased NBC anchor Brian Williams who set up his Friday newscast by equating the left-wing protests with those against Arab dictatorships: "From the Mideast to the American ...
2/18/2011 9:14 AM ET
ABC on Thursday night championed a "mutiny in America" by public employees in Wisconsin whom NBC's Brian Williams trumpeted for "rising up and saying no to some of the most extreme cuts in the ...
2/13/2011 8:17 PM ET
President Barack Obama is "a pragmatic centrist" and "he's still the same centrist he's always been," Norah O'Donnell, NBC News reporter/MSNBC chief Washington correspondent, insisted Friday night ...
2/13/2011 10:12 AM ET
Friday's USA Today featured an op-ed, "Centrist Obama mustn't sacrifice too much," from Rich Benjamin, a Senior Fellow at something called "Demos," who admitted he remains "besotted by President ...
2/1/2011 9:24 AM ET
ABC, CBS and NBC on Monday night devoted more than half of their evening newscasts to the turmoil in Egypt, but while CBS and NBC squeezed in brief mentions of how a federal judge agreed with 26 ...
1/28/2011 2:06 PM ET
In picking Mark Whitaker, Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News, as its new Executive Vice President and Managing Editor, CNN has selected someone with a liberal outlook who presumes not raising ...
1/26/2011 9:31 AM ET
ABC's Christiane Amanpour hailed President Obama's State of the Union address as "very Reaganesque," but in October, holding herself up as some kind of protector of Reagan's legacy, she feigned ...
1/23/2011 3:25 PM ET
Two signs Sunday morning of how the Washington press corps are dismissive and befuddled by the Tea Party. On This Week, they flummoxed Christiane Amanpour: "What on earth do they mean by that?" On ...
1/21/2011 1:47 AM ET
In the guise of a status report on ObamaCare, Katie Couric derided GOP efforts to repeal it. She pleaded to give it a chance as she rationalized "the law is vulnerable because of the complex way ...
1/20/2011 9:19 AM ET
"The health care law may not be popular, but many of the provisions now in effect are," ABC's Jonathan Karl asserted in his Thursday night look at the House vote to repeal ObamaCare as he ...
1/17/2011 9:26 PM ET
When George Stephanopoulos noted "the support for stricter gun control has dropped over the last few years," anchor Diane Sawyer expressed astonishment: "Stricter has dropped?" The ABC duo ignored ...
