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
12/6/2011 11:15 PM ET
NBC anchor Brian Williams on Tuesday evening promised a look "back at some of the hits, runs and errors" of Newt Gingrich's years as Speaker of the House, but other than a sentence from Lisa Myers ...
12/6/2011 12:42 AM ET
A not so creative liberal fantasy. Dan Rather "got it right" in his 2004 story about President George W. Bush's avoidance of National Guard duty, a hit piece discredited because of Rather's ...
11/29/2011 8:56 AM ET
"The first line in Barney Frank's political epitaph," The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes predicted on Monday's FNC Special Report upon news the longtime liberal Democratic Congressman won't seek ...
11/27/2011 11:05 AM ET
"Bring the Family: Looking for Adventure with the Kids" reads the tag line over a weekly series of tips to Boston Globe readers suggesting what to do with them on weekends. The headline announced ...
11/22/2011 10:08 AM ET
Picking up on a blog post by a far-left group devoted to silencing Rush Limbaugh, ABC on Monday night dedicated an entire story to one word used by the radio host, a comment the other networks ...
11/20/2011 4:30 PM ET
Highlighting Grover Norquist's upcoming appearance on 60 Minutes, CBS's Bob Schieffer, on Face the Nation, pointed to the anti-tax hike pledge Norquist asks politicians to sign as "one of the ...
11/17/2011 9:45 PM ET
ABC anchor David Muir hyped "masses of people taking to the streets here in New York City," before Dan Harris referenced "this massive protest march tonight" and "this big protest." Yet on CBS, ...
11/9/2011 9:02 PM ET
Conservatives had some significant victories in Tuesday's scattered elections across the country, but the broadcast network evening newscasts on Wednesday night ' with the exception of one topic ...
11/6/2011 7:12 PM ET
ABC's Christiane Amanpour, on Sunday's This Week, hit House Speaker John Boehner repeatedly from the left to raise taxes, a hostile, political agenda-driven approach she failed to apply a month ...
10/30/2011 10:27 PM ET
CBS's Bob Schieffer unintentionally played the foil to Herman Cain on Sunday's Face the Nation as Schieffer expressed his politically-correct displeasure with Cain's "downright bizarre" Web video, ...
10/23/2011 10:00 PM ET
President Barack Obama's new infrastructure spending plan "makes all of the sense in the world" and is an "eminently sensible idea," ABC's Christiane Amanpour enthused Sunday morning on This Week ...
10/21/2011 4:02 AM ET
It's no surprise MSNBC hosts were quick to see "vindication" for President Barack Obama in the death of Moammar Qadhafi, but ABC's George Stephanopoulos and Jake Tapper were just as eager Thursday ...
10/16/2011 10:33 PM ET
The broadcast networks continued their enthusiastic coverage Friday night on behalf of the far-left Wall Street protesters, with NBC's Brian Williams the most excited while CBS anchor Scott Pelley ...
10/16/2011 10:08 PM ET
Left-wing actor Sean Penn slimed the Tea Party as motivated by racism, charging on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight on Friday evening that an impediment to Obama's success is "what I call the 'Get the ...
10/14/2011 1:15 AM ET
In the face of their removal from a Manhattan park so it can be cleaned up, NBC anchor Brian Williams stepped up his praise Thursday night for the far-left protesters. "They share a heritage with ...
10/13/2011 2:12 PM ET
"A long list of economists say Cain's plan would hit the lower middle class hard," ABC's Jonathan Karl fretted Wednesday night. On CBS, Wyatt Andrew focused on "a double hit on low-income ...
10/11/2011 8:51 AM ET
So enthused about promoting the far-left protests, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer on Monday night's World News championed "the Occupy Wall Street movement" by ludicrously claiming that "as of tonight, it ...
10/10/2011 9:29 AM ET
ABC stepped up its promotion Sunday night on behalf of the far-left protesters, which they failed to label, making a special effort to explain and frame their grievances ' a service they never ...
10/10/2011 12:39 AM ET
Offering the kind of respect, admiration and promotion ABC News has yet to offer Tea Party activists, Christiane Amanpour on Sunday asserted the far-left protesters are a "populist movement" ...
10/10/2011 12:22 AM ET
Friday's NBC Nightly News once again promoted the anti-capitalist protests which Brian Williams non-ideologically described as "a protest against economic and social inequality." Reporter Chris ...
