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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12/7/2010 8:59 PM ET
Though under the Obama-congressional GOP compromise income tax rates will remain unchanged for all, CBS anchor Jeff Glor introduced a story by characterizing a "battle over tax cuts" and how ...
12/6/2010 9:34 PM ET
Monday night Brian Williams fretted the deal contradicts how "the fight has been over anything in government that isn't paid for," yet, as Chuck Todd despaired in filling in Williams' regret, ...
12/6/2010 8:39 AM ET
On Sunday's Face the Nation, Republican Senate whip Jon Kyl kept correcting host Bob Schieffer about how extending tax "rates," not "cuts," is what is being debated, leading Schieffer to conceded ...
12/2/2010 9:58 PM ET
Framing the debate through a liberal prism hostile to continuing the current income tax rates, ABC and CBS worried Thursday night about the "cost" of not raising taxes, as if all money belongs to ...
12/1/2010 9:32 PM ET
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Wednesday evening hit presidential deficit commission co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles from the left, the New York Times left. Without ever ...
11/30/2010 8:51 PM ET
Covering President Barack Obama's White House meeting with congressional leaders, ABC and CBS portrayed incoming House Republicans as the ones obstinate about tax rates, refusing to compromise ' ...
11/29/2010 8:21 AM ET
David Letterman is a big believer in cataclysmic predictions about global warming, but on Wednesday's Late Show his mom, Dorothy, rejected his proposition that global warming was to blame for some ...
11/28/2010 2:14 PM ET
At a time when the American mood has turned against excessive government spending, Christiane Amanpour devoted Sunday's This Week to four liberal Democratic billionaires, though she failed to ...
11/22/2010 8:46 AM ET
ABC's Christiane Amanpour on Sunday gave national exposure to a liberal Financial Times reporter. Ed Luce declared the world would react "with deep horror, I think, but also some amusement," to a ...
11/19/2010 9:30 AM ET
Very unusually, CBS's Katie Couric promised a look Thursday night at "how runaway government spending has exploded the national debt," but Couric illustrated how she and the media are an ...
11/15/2010 8:49 AM ET
Despairing that the current income tax rates will be extended for all income levels, on Sunday's This Week, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus declared: "I think that the conversation right now ...
11/11/2010 9:11 AM ET
In his weekly "The Final Word" column for USA Today, "Out of the closet...well, almost," features reporter Craig Wilson recalled in Wednesday's newspaper: "I once knew a gay youth who was bullied. ...
11/7/2010 2:38 PM ET
Christine Amanpour spent much of Sunday's This Week arguing with her guests about how taxes must be raised - a theme also echoed on Face the Nation and Meet the Press - as she brought aboard the ...
11/5/2010 8:12 AM ET
CBS's Nancy Cordes on Thursday night conveyed Democratic concern about Eric Cantor's pledge to hold oversight hearings: "That worries Democrats, who remember what happened the last time ...
11/3/2010 1:07 PM ET
NewsBusters is back online. We'll be monitoring it closely over the next several hours, but please consider it back up and running. We'll be posting articles tonight and tomorrow morning those ...
11/3/2010 1:59 AM ET
After NBC called Nevada for Democratic Senator Harry Reid, David Gregory credited his win to Sharron Angle disrespecting journalists, citing how she "made some very unwise decisions, namely, ...
10/31/2010 10:53 PM ET
Barely 36 hours before Washington State voters go to the polls, CBS News aired a 14-minute unregulated in-kind campaign expenditure on behalf of "Yes on 1098" and its chief cheerleader, Bill Gates ...
10/31/2010 10:53 PM ET
Barely 36 hours before Washington State voters go to the polls, CBS News aired a 14-minute unregulated in-kind campaign expenditure on behalf of "Yes on 1098" and its chief cheerleader, Bill Gates ...
10/31/2010 2:54 PM ET
ABC's Christiane Amanpour spent her last show before the election mimicking Democratic talking points. She cued up Democratic Senator Robert Menendez with how Americans don't recognize the ...
10/31/2010 1:44 PM ET
This weekend's Inside Washington put on full display the liberal sensibilities of the Washington press corps as Newsweek veteran Evan Thomas yearned for a win in Colorado for incumbent Democratic ...
