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
9/15/2010 1:04 AM ET
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus raced to her keyboard on Tuesday night to express her upset with the result of the Republican Senate primary in Delaware. In "Why Christine O'Donnell's ...
9/14/2010 1:38 PM ET
Emily Lenzner, Executive Director of Communications at ABC News for its DC-based shows, who spent eight months in 2007-2008 as editorial producer for This Week with George Stephanopoulos (for whom ...
9/14/2010 9:08 AM ET
On Monday, NBC anchor Brian Williams brought viewers back to the Left's ten-year-old grudge, cuing up Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to agree: "Do you think Bush v Gore hurt the credibility ...
9/12/2010 3:07 PM ET
ABC's Christiane Amanpour used Sunday's This Week to again shame Americans for their intolerance and Islamophobia as she railed against the ignorance of too many Americans, provided a friendly ...
9/9/2010 9:05 PM ET
Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf chose ABC's Christiane Amanpour to spend "several hours" with on Thursday in New York City, and just as she did back in August on This Week, she again served as his public ...
9/9/2010 8:37 PM ET
If your income tax rate stays the same next year, would you consider that a "tax cut"? ABC anchor Diane Sawyer sure seems to think so. Adopting the Obama/Democratic spin as fact, that maintaining ...
9/8/2010 11:45 PM ET
TV journalists have decided Sarah Palin, the Pope ' and even Pat Robertson ' are now sources of wisdom. Katie Couric teased: "Despite condemnation from the Vatican...that Christian minister in ...
9/7/2010 11:52 PM ET
ABC's Diane Sawyer gave Arianna Huffington a rare gift on Tuesday night: An entire World News segment devoted to promoting the left-winger's new book and her Huffington Post site. Sawyer ...
9/7/2010 4:24 PM ET
Reporting ABC News President David Westin's plan to step down at the end of the year, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz noted "some early missteps" during his tenure, such as "a comment after the ...
9/6/2010 2:30 PM ET
In a 2000 A&E movie on George Washington, he is persuaded that just like the hired-gun Hessians, his opposition to British taxes means he too is fighting "for profit." Jeff Daniels, playing ...
9/5/2010 11:13 PM ET
The late Peter Jennings, shortly after the Republicans took control of Congress in 1994: "Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week." ...
9/5/2010 3:09 PM ET
Filling in for Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, Early Show co-host Harry Smith brought his liberal sensibilities to the Sunday show, pressing his economic panel to agree the Bush tax cuts should ...
9/4/2010 10:54 PM ET
When an overwhelming majority of the public goes against the media's position, journalists see division and rancor. Case in a point: An article in Tuesday's Washington Post: "Much of France has ...
9/3/2010 8:57 PM ET
The unemployment rate rose a tenth of a point, to 9.6 percent in August so it "has exceeded 9 percent for 16 straight months," while the economy lost 54,000 jobs. Yet, without avoiding the dire ...
9/3/2010 2:09 AM ET
In a list of famous Americans with a parent (or both) born in another country, the un-bylined last page "Back Story" of this week's Newsweek listed "BARACK OBAMA (Kenyan Father)" on the page ...
9/2/2010 4:47 PM ET
Earning applause from the audience, Donald Trump gave David Letterman his take on placing a new mosque near Ground Zero: "I think it's insensitive and it shouldn't be built there." A befuddled ...
9/2/2010 9:33 AM ET
Wednesday's CBS Evening News, without Katie Couric, uniquely amongst the broadcast network evening newscasts tied Discovery Channel hostage-taker/bomber James Lee to Al Gore and, even more ...
8/31/2010 9:35 PM ET
President Barack Obama's decision to include, in his Tuesday night address from the Oval Office on the end to the "combat mission" in Iraq, a sentence respectful toward former President George W. ...
8/30/2010 8:44 PM ET
On Sunday night, Brian Williams despaired "you're an American-born Christian. And yet, significant numbers of Americans...are claiming you are neither." Barack Obama responded: "I can't spend all ...
8/29/2010 8:53 PM ET
Interviewing President Obama in New Orleans on Sunday, Brian Williams treated Obama as a great oracle of wisdom to pluck. "Katrina was about so many things. It was about class and race and ...
