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
4/10/2014 5:54 PM ET
Jane Pauley, who, while campaigning for Barack Obama in 2008,
declared “I want to see the cool, steady hand of Barack Obama on that
Bible on Inauguration Day,” has joined CBS News as a ...
3/17/2014 2:40 PM ET
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is married to ABC News Washington
correspondent Claire Shipman and now there’s another cozy
media-Democratic political world power couple with the ...
2/26/2014 1:30 PM ET
Season 2 debuts tonight of The Americans,
the FX drama centered around husband and wife KGB undercover agents
(Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as “Philip and Elizabeth Jennings”) who
live with ...
2/25/2014 3:23 PM ET
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer brought Jeffrey Toobin aboard Monday’s The Situation Room to expound on his New Yorker
magazine blog, “Clarence Thomas’s Disgraceful Silence,” posted on
Friday. After ...
2/24/2014 9:36 AM ET
With two political activists, who toiled for Barack Obama, starting
hosting duties today with new shows on MSNBC (Ronan Farrow and Joy-Ann Reid),
the MRC’s list of those revolving between ...
2/23/2014 10:35 AM ET
Steve Hayes and Charles Krauthammer, on Friday’s Special Report with Bret Baier, scoffed at the Washington Post’s
front page characterization that President Barack Obama’s expected
budget ...
2/12/2014 3:46 PM ET
“Where is the mainstream media on this?” Steve Hayes of The Weekly Standard pleaded on Tuesday’s Special Report with Bret Baier
in reference to President Obama’s latest decision to change the ...
2/4/2014 8:29 AM ET
George Will zinged the media’s duplicity in how they have approached the
IRS scandal versus past major scandals when a Republican was President,
a lack of interest President Obama recognizes ...
1/12/2014 10:05 PM ET
Emmy Rossum, the 27-year-old star of Showtime’s Shameless, which had its fourth season debut Sunday night (Jan 12), on Wednesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live marveled at the “amazing” and “free health ...
12/31/2013 11:09 AM ET
The first runner-up quotes in the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2013: The Twenty-Sixth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.” As announced in a December 18 CyberAlert Special, the ...
12/30/2013 1:32 AM ET
The winning quotes in the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2013: The Twenty-Sixth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.” As announced in a December 18 CyberAlert Special,
the awards ...
12/2/2013 8:15 AM ET
George Will marveled in his column late last week over how “a CNN anchor
wondered if an asteroid that passed by Earth on Feb. 15 was ‘an effect
of, perhaps, global warming.’” That quote, ...
11/22/2013 8:21 AM ET
A prime time plug Thursday night for the joy of voting for Barack Obama.
“I’m really into this. You know, elections and voting, it really means a
lot to me. I mean, casting my ballot for Obama ...
11/18/2013 8:36 AM ET
Lee Harvey Oswald was far-left defector to the Soviet Union, but you’d never know that from Sunday’s ABC This Week which
focused on Dallas as a cauldron of segregationist hate for President ...
11/4/2013 9:16 AM ET
Exhibit A on Friday night for how the news media are an impediment to any rational discussion of reining in federal spending. “The ax falls for more than 47 million Americans struggling to put ...
10/30/2013 9:10 AM ET
Jumping in to excuse President Obama for making the false promise (“If
you like your plan, you can keep your plan”), ABC News on Tuesday night
rationalized how ObamaCare is simply saving ...
10/27/2013 8:12 PM ET
David Callaway, Editor-in-Chief of USA Today, is so upset by
Republicans using the HealthCare.gov roll-out mess to discredit
ObamaCare, that he penned an op-ed for Friday’s edition of the ...
10/21/2013 8:08 AM ET
Some more bashing of Sarah Palin on Sunday night’s episode of CBS’s The Good Wife,
but the scene also managed to deliver an illustrative dramatization of
liberals in a bubble displaying ...
10/6/2013 3:24 PM ET
From the debate over ObamaCare over the past few years, Bob Schieffer
learned not of all the problems that need to be addressed or that it
lacks public support, but that it should have been ...
10/6/2013 8:17 AM ET
The Washington Post’s Colby King took another stab Saturday
at impugning and discrediting the Tea Party as a bunch of racists who
are little more than an extension of the Confederacy. In a ...
