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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8/20/2011 2:38 PM ET
Actress/singer Alicia Witt, who came to semi-fame playing Cybill Shepherd's teenage daughter "Zoey" on the late 1990s CBS sit-com Cybill, traveled to Washington, DC this past week, which she told ...
8/19/2011 2:15 PM ET
Prompted by Newsweek's Michele Bachmann cover picture choice, USA Today founder Al Neuharth, a pretty consistent liberal, recognized the magazine's political agenda: "Under Tina Brown, it is an ...
8/18/2011 2:03 AM ET
Just as criticism builds over President Obama's plan to vacation on Martha's Vineyard while the economy flounders, the CBS Evening News came to his defense. While "Obama has taken 61 days of ...
8/17/2011 9:03 AM ET
"Republican presidential contender Rick Perry rustles up a controversy when he appears to threaten the head of the Federal Reserve," CBS anchor Scott Pelley teased Tuesday night in taking ...
8/16/2011 2:15 AM ET
"Billionaires on notice," ABC anchor Diane Sawyer teased Monday's World News in trumpeting, as did CBS and NBC, a New York Times op-ed by liberal billionaire Warren Buffett. Sawyer heralded ...
8/14/2011 3:02 PM ET
"I think there's a lot of time on radio and television and on the Web that actually is conservative points of view. There's not a lot of time for the left," long-time CNN executive David Bohrman, ...
8/14/2011 10:53 AM ET
Asked how Iowans view President Barack Obama, Michael Gartner, the President of NBC News from 1988 to 1993, insisted on this weekend's Bloomberg TV's Political Capital: "I think people have a ...
8/13/2011 9:41 AM ET
Friday night's CBS Evening News examined Rick Perry's record in Texas, citing his claims his policies led to job creation but then pivoting to how "Perry's bedrock pledge to never raise taxes also ...
8/11/2011 11:00 PM ET
ABC's Jake Tapper scolded Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for a "gaffe" over his assertion that "corporations are people" since "everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the ...
8/9/2011 8:02 PM ET
Recalling how he was raised in heavily Democratic Providence, R.I., New York Times columnist Joe Nocera revealed: It wasn't until I moved to Washington after college that I got to know any ...
8/9/2011 2:21 PM ET
With outrage from right to left over Newsweek's "Queen of Rage" cover story photo of Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann in which she looks crazy, or at least empty-headed, a look ...
8/8/2011 8:26 PM ET
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, who the week before last cited "the debt ceiling, which rational people agree needs to be raised," on Monday evening again seemed to take a shot at Tea ...
8/8/2011 5:56 PM ET
TV Newser reported Monday afternoon the news that David Bohrman, the long-time Washington Bureau Chief for CNN, has been hired by Al Gore's Current TV, the cable home of Keith Olbermann which is ...
8/6/2011 3:33 PM ET
A reminder Hollywood moguls aren't just enthralled with Barack Obama. They are also ideological liberals who have disgust for conservatives and are especially enraged by the Tea Party's success. ...
8/5/2011 8:29 AM ET
Running through the findings of a new CBS News/New York Times poll, on Thursday night Chip Reid highlighted how, after weeks of media hostility the Tea Party has lost popularity, as he located ...
8/3/2011 9:27 AM ET
Framing a shortcoming in the debt deal as a liberal would and does, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley on Tuesday night regretted the how "the last time the President and the Congress ...
8/2/2011 11:54 PM ET
Remarkable uniformity amongst some major national newspapers on Tuesday as they simultaneously worried about how the supposed spending "cuts" in the debt-ceiling deal will harm the economy.
As USA ...
8/2/2011 8:52 AM ET
Two network anchors cued up House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to despair the debt ceiling deal, presumably because of some future slight reductions in the projected rate of spending increases, ...
7/31/2011 3:12 PM ET
Three noteworthy spins on the Sunday morning interview shows. ABC, with "ALL CUTS, NO TAXES?" on screen: George Stephanopoulos hit the White House's David Plouffe from the left; CBS, Bob Schieffer ...
7/31/2011 9:17 AM ET
The broadcast network evening newscasts on Friday night noted the very anemic second quarter GDP growth rate at 1.3 percent, but instead of stressing how it showed the weak economic state well ...
