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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1/16/2012 10:08 PM ET
"With Huntsman gone," ABC's Jonathan Karl despaired Monday night, "the field of Republican candidates has lost the only candidate who favored civil unions for gay couples and said he was concerned ...
1/16/2012 8:17 AM ET
CBS's Bob Schieffer decided his viewers needed a special warning about how far out of the mainstream an upcoming guest dwells, plugging at the top of Sunday's Face the Nation how he'd have as ...
1/13/2012 11:22 AM ET
Another bit of evidence emerged Thursday about how deeply ingrained anti-conservative hatred is inside America's newspapers, even amongst those who don't cover politics.
John Kelly, a Washington ...
1/10/2012 7:48 PM ET
ABC on Tuesday night decided to showcase one guy yelling at Mitt Romney, as if it proved how media-liberal distortions of Mitt Romney's "I like to fire people" remark will surely hurt him and ...
1/9/2012 8:06 AM ET
Sad news came Sunday that Tony Blankley, the long-time leading conservative thinker, author and columnist, who served House Speaker Newt Gingrich and later ran the editorial pages for the ...
1/9/2012 7:17 AM ET
In pointing out how Barack Obama only won in 2008 by a slim margin, so this year's Republican nominee doesn't have to win over all that many Americans, ABC's Jake Tapper on Sunday morning listed ...
1/6/2012 11:42 AM ET
An hour before CNN screamed "Breaking News" Thursday night over the Boston Globe's endorsement of Jon Huntsman (basically for not being "pushed" to the right like Mitt Romney), the CBS Evening ...
1/4/2012 11:41 PM ET
Showing how no left-wing effort to raise taxes is too silly or embarrassing for ABC News to embrace, World News on Wednesday night jumped to promote a Web video, created by a group founded by a ...
1/3/2012 7:54 AM ET
The fourth runners-up quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." In addition to discussions on numerous talk radio shows ...
1/3/2012 7:26 AM ET
In a series of reports Monday night on how Republican presidential contenders plan to reduce the deficit, Dean Reynolds pleaded to Newt Gingrich: "Absolutely no tax increases?" He noted "critics ...
1/2/2012 10:45 AM ET
Three weeks after CBS's 60 Minutes delivered a friendly sit-down with President Barack Obama, the show didn't even attempt a matching approach to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Instead, Lesley ...
12/30/2011 9:53 AM ET
The third runners-up quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." Some categories: "Hopeless Dopes Award for Discrediting ...
12/29/2011 1:10 AM ET
The second runners-up quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." Some categories: "Tying Granny to the Train Tracks Award ...
12/28/2011 5:52 AM ET
The first runners-up quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." To determine this year's winners, a panel of 48 radio ...
12/27/2011 12:31 AM ET
The winning quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." The awards issue was posted, with videos, on Monday, December 19. ...
12/19/2011 6:46 AM ET
In her next to last week hosting This Week, ABC's Christiane Amanpour moderated a show-long debate, touted as "The Great American Debates," devoted to the proposition: "There's Too Much ...
12/17/2011 8:28 PM ET
"After 13 years with ABC News, correspondent Jim Sciutto is leaving the network and TV news. He's moving to China where he'll be Chief of Staff to U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke," TVNewser's ...
12/12/2011 8:53 AM ET
CBS's Steve Kroft challenged President Barack Obama a few times during the two-part 60 Minutes interview aired Sunday night, but managed to ignore the scandals (Solyndra, Fast & Furious and ...
12/11/2011 2:30 PM ET
ABC's Christiane Amanpour just can't comprehend why Jon Huntsman, with his "eminently sensible" anti-conservative positions, could be losing to Newt Gingrich who is full of "bombast" and "does say ...
12/9/2011 8:07 AM ET
"In the presidential campaign," CBS anchor Scott Pelley announced Thursday night, "President Obama fired back today at Republican opponents who criticized his foreign policy using words like ...
