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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10/10/2011 12:07 AM ET
Melinda Henneberger, who in 2009 proclaimed "Ted Kennedy has been a huge inspiration to me" and boasted of a "longtime political crush on the man who either in spite of his flaws and losses or ...
10/6/2011 9:09 AM ET
CBS and NBC led Wednesday night with glowing stories about the growth and diversity of the far-left "Occupy Wall Street" protests, though without any ideological label applied nor any critics ...
10/4/2011 10:06 AM ET
Very much unlike how they greeted the Tea Party protests, the networks are embracing the new left-wing/anti-capitalist protests, even failing to condemn their unruly behavior which resulted in 700 ...
10/2/2011 11:24 PM ET
Andy Rooney delivered his final commentary Sunday night at the end of 60 Minutes and while the now 92-year old curmudgeon's pieces usually dealt with non-serious topics, he should be credited for ...
9/30/2011 9:58 AM ET
Matching the pattern set in coverage of Arizona's immigration enforcement law, the broadcast network evening newscasts on Thursday night all framed their stories on Alabama's "severe" new law ...
9/25/2011 9:12 PM ET
Actor Alan Cumming, who was born in Britain and plays the scheming campaign manager "Eli Gold" on The Good Wife which has its season premiere tonight on CBS, contended on CNN's Piers Morgan ...
9/25/2011 7:32 AM ET
Appearing Friday before a House subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, the CEO and CFO of Solyndra both invoked their 5th amendment right against self-incrimination. But instead of ...
9/23/2011 2:14 AM ET
Interviewing former Vice President Dick Cheney at the Reagan library, CNN's John King recalled how former President George H.W. Bush "made an incredibly tough personal and political choice" to ...
9/20/2011 9:02 AM ET
"President Obama has declared it is time to take action on taxes because people in the middle class are paying a larger percentage of income tax than the super-rich," ABC anchor Diane Sawyer ...
9/18/2011 3:43 PM ET
Meet the Press host David Gregory contented the fact a GOP presidential debate audience applauded Rick Perry for allowing the death penalty, and three in an audience of hundreds shouted "yeah" to ...
9/17/2011 5:50 PM ET
"The Republican Party is split right down the middle between Tea Party movement supporters and those who do not support the two-and-a-half-year-old movement, according to a new national survey," a ...
9/16/2011 9:53 AM ET
Monday's NBC Nightly News featured Brian Williams' questions from the left to President Barack Obama about liberal exasperation with the President and on Thursday night Williams re-purposed that ...
9/13/2011 10:07 AM ET
A few days after he hit Republicans from the left when he moderated a presidential candidates debate on MSNBC, NBC's Brian Williams pressed President Barack Obama with the concerns of Obama ...
9/8/2011 8:32 AM ET
NBC's Brian Williams and Politico's John Harris peppered the NBC News/Politico debate inside the Air Force One pavilion at the Reagan Library with questions from the left, repeatedly pressing the ...
9/4/2011 11:35 PM ET
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace displayed to former Vice President Dick Cheney how NBC's Today show on Tuesday had ended Matt Lauer's interview with him by pulling back to highlight an Amnesty ...
9/3/2011 11:24 AM ET
In the midst of the failure of President Obama's "stimulus spending" program, ABC on Friday night asserted the solution to the devastating report, of zero jobs created in August, is...more ...
9/2/2011 9:55 AM ET
Following Wednesday's NBC News/Politico Republican presidential debate which will last one hour and forty five minutes, MSNBC will devote more time, two hours and fifteen minutes, to a group of ...
8/28/2011 11:15 PM ET
If only George W. Bush had ordered home delivery of some pizzas during Katrina. On Meet the Press, David Gregory relayed how Newark Mayor Cory Booker delivered a few pizzas to a shelter, then ...
8/22/2011 9:22 AM ET
President Barack Obama continues to benefit from a fawning media of which past Presidents could only dream, yet on Sunday's This Week two journalists fretted he's not getting enough credit for his ...
8/21/2011 9:48 PM ET
CBS's Norah O'Donnell, filling in on Face the Nation, just couldn't comprehend how a candidate espousing true conservative views could possibly capture the White House. Referring to Rick Perry, ...
