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
1/17/2011 8:08 AM ET
Picking up on "a family feud" fueled by a decision by ABC News to promote Ron Reagan Jr's new book in which he insists his father displayed symptoms of Alzheimer's while in his first presidential ...
1/15/2011 9:37 AM ET
On the season premiere of his HBO show, Bill Maher offered a bizarre explanation for why Jared Lee Loughner was able to commit mass murder: "Because we don't have government health care, that's ...
1/13/2011 8:13 AM ET
Sarah Palin's use in a video commentary of the "blood libel" phrase, against those exploiting the Tucson shooting to discredit her, inflamed journalists with NBC's Andrea Mitchell ridiculously ...
1/11/2011 8:33 AM ET
There's no evidence political vitriol drove Jared Loughner's murderous rampage, ABC, CBS and NBC all acknowledged, but that didn't deter them from taking up the left-wing line holding ...
1/10/2011 8:42 AM ET
Talk about incendiary and toxic talk. In Friday's Washington Post, business section columnist Steven Pearlstein proclaimed that "what's particularly noteworthy about" congressional Republican ...
1/9/2011 5:58 PM ET
"The shooter's motivation is still unknown," Katie Couric announced as she anchored Saturday's CBS Evening News, but that didn't deter CBS, nor CNN, NBC and ABC on Saturday night and into Sunday ...
1/7/2011 8:36 AM ET
In an interview with House Speaker John Boehner, Brian Williams told Boehner the promised vote to repeal ObamaCare has "been called a stunt," pressed him to justify repealing it given many would ...
1/6/2011 8:30 AM ET
ABC's Diane Sawyer hit a group of incoming freshmen House and Senate members about presumed Tea Party hypocrisy in accepting farm subsidies and not refusing to accept federal employee health care ...
12/30/2010 1:49 AM ET
The third runners-up quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2010: The Twenty-Third Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." The awards issue was posted, with videos, on Monday, ...
12/29/2010 10:03 AM ET
We can provide BiasAlerts/CyberAlerts - as well as all of the MRC's publications and sites - as free services only because of the thousands of concerned conservatives who support the MRC ...
12/29/2010 2:59 AM ET
The second runners-up quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2010: The Twenty-Third Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." The awards issue was posted, with videos, on Monday, ...
12/29/2010 2:18 AM ET
Catching up with a distorted news report from Christmas Day, the AP decided to distribute a particularly tendentious piece of "reporting" by the news service's Washington, DC-based Alan Fram and ...
12/28/2010 10:26 AM ET
The first runners-up quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2010: The Twenty-Third Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." Yesterday, today, Wednesday and Thursday - the last ...
12/27/2010 2:10 AM ET
The winning quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2010: The Twenty-Third Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." The awards issue was posted, with videos, on Monday, December 20, ...
12/27/2010 1:04 AM ET
"This is such a weak field," Fox News analyst Juan Williams declared during a Fox News Sunday look at potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates, prompting an appalled Bill Kristol to mock: "Yeah, ...
12/22/2010 8:22 PM ET
"There weren't a lot of hard questions in this news conference," FNC's Bret Baier observed in an understatement. Indeed, Caren Bohan of Reuters reflected the collective glow of the White House ...
12/20/2010 7:37 AM ET
"I was at ' forgive the expression ' a Christmas party," NPR reporter Nina Totenberg interjected on Inside Washington in the weekend's oddest cautionary separation from a common description for a ...
12/19/2010 11:21 PM ET
Nearly 80 percent of the $858 billion "cost" of the tax bill signed by President Obama is from the $675 billion over the next ten years the government would have received if income tax rates were ...
12/16/2010 1:32 AM ET
Searching for an upside to the WikiLeaks release of secret documents, David Letterman pointed to how such disclosures could have possibly prevented the 9/11 attacks since former President George ...
12/14/2010 5:24 PM ET
At the Reagan Museum and Library, former First Lady Nancy Reagan on Monday unveiled a new Ronald Reagan postage stamp which is to be released in February to commemorate the 100th anniversary of ...
