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
10/5/2010 12:47 AM ET
Aaron Sorkin came aboard the Monday premiere of CNN's Parker Spitzer to promote the new movie, The Social Network, for which he wrote the screenplay, but used more of his air time to spout his ...
10/4/2010 8:34 PM ET
ABC's Terry Moran trumpeted new Justice Elena Kagan: "The one word that leapt to my mind was 'ready,'" touting how "she was confident and well prepared and fluent and probing" and, at one moment, ...
10/3/2010 3:40 PM ET
After two shows featuring six advocates of the Ground Zero mosque, ABC on Sunday decided to air a "special This Week town hall debate, Holy War: Should Americans Fear Islam?" Christiane Amanpour ...
10/1/2010 9:10 AM ET
Advancing the Democratic-liberal effort to discredit Tea Party-favored candidates as unhinged cads, Thursday's NBC Nightly News elevated a heated exchange, between New York gubernatorial candidate ...
9/30/2010 9:09 AM ET
"For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly," Gallup reported Wednesday. Gallup ...
9/29/2010 7:40 AM ET
NBC couldn't avoid reporting that a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found "the change that voters want" includes 54 percent who "hope that this Tea Party enthusiasm in the Republican Party ...
9/28/2010 9:59 AM ET
Acting as if President Barack Obama is uniquely burdened by the responsibility of protecting the nation from a terrorist attack, Diane Sawyer and Bob Woodward marveled at how he's taken on the job ...
9/27/2010 9:00 AM ET
Interviewing David Axelrod on Sunday's This Week, Christiane Amanpour asked him to explain why "people don't appreciate some of the amazing legislative agenda" that Barack Obama has ...
9/23/2010 2:16 AM ET
With Republicans set to unveil their "Pledge to America," a look back at how then-NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw derided the Contract with America when it was announced in 1994: "Today, GOP ...
9/22/2010 9:55 AM ET
"Star power: Three megawatt political giants hit the campaign trail," Diane Sawyer touted at the top of Tuesday's World News, focusing on "Michelle Obama now joining former President Bill Clinton ...
9/21/2010 1:03 AM ET
ABC, CBS and NBC all ran full stories Monday night on how an old video clip showed Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell talking about how, as a high-schooler, she had "dabbled ...
9/20/2010 7:50 PM ET
In selecting which excerpts, from his sit-down with former President Jimmy Carter, to showcase on Monday's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams decided to highlight Carter's blast at Fox News for ...
9/19/2010 10:49 PM ET
Lesley Stahl trumpeted on 60 Minutes: "Jimmy Carter argues that despite the image of failure, he actually had a long list of successes, starting with bringing all the hostages home alive," as if ...
9/19/2010 8:17 PM ET
On Wednesday, CBS's Bob Schieffer contended the rise of Tea Party candidates "is very much like 1964" when they went to the right "and they lost in a landslide." On Sunday morning, another liberal ...
9/18/2010 5:09 PM ET
Newsweek veteran Evan Thomas issued a ringing call ' in defense of federal spending ' for why he hopes Congress and President Obama cannot agree on extending any of the Bush tax cuts, so income ...
9/18/2010 2:18 PM ET
"There are calls for a criminal investigation of another rising GOP star," Katie Couric teased at the top of the CBS Evening News, after citing Sarah Palin's speaking appearance in Iowa, as she ...
9/17/2010 1:35 AM ET
ABC whored itself out Thursday night to an effort by the White House to prove its "stimulus" spending created a lot of jobs. "Still ahead on World News," an easily impressed Diane Sawyer hyped, ...
9/16/2010 8:55 PM ET
Following a story on how "big primary victories by fringe candidates open a rift in the GOP," which warned "moderate Republicans worry that if the Tea Party movement drives the GOP too far to the ...
9/15/2010 10:33 PM ET
The night after a Tea Party candidate in Delaware stunned the GOP establishment, the CBS Evening News blamed voter "anger," tried to marginalize Christine O'Donnell as an "ultra-conservative," ...
9/15/2010 7:19 PM ET
NBC Wednesday night (10 PM EDT/PDT, 9 PM CDT) debuts a new drama, Outlaw, centered on a conservative Supreme Court justice who, as a gambler and a philander, is a hypocrite played by Jimmy Smits. ...
