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
8/29/2010 1:52 PM ET
Republicans are "exotic" and "extreme," and against science too, CBS's Bob Schieffer contended on Sunday's Face the Nation. "You have also taken some fairly controversial, some would say very ...
8/28/2010 8:55 PM ET
CBS's Nancy Cordes saw a "nearly all-white crowd" at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, DC, as she (at least an off-camera female voice) demanded of two black women who weren't ...
8/28/2010 3:18 PM ET
It will be "very difficult for Democrats to demonize" George W. Bush "again" during this campaign season, liberal nationally syndicated columnist Mark Shields despaired on Friday's Inside ...
8/27/2010 8:04 PM ET
"Followers of conservative radio and TV host Glenn Beck already gathering in the capital," Erica Hill teased at the top of the CBS Evening News. She announced: "Followers of conservative talk show ...
8/26/2010 9:08 PM ET
ABC News sure wanted to paint the man charged with stabbing Muslim cab driver as a bigoted hate crime perpetrator who is the inevitable result of Islamophobic opposition to the mosque near Ground ...
8/26/2010 9:02 AM ET
"A CBS News poll out tonight finds that seven of ten Americans oppose building a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero," fill-in CBS anchor Jeff Glor announced Wednesday night, but instead of ...
8/24/2010 9:14 PM ET
NBC's Chuck Todd couched it in terms of how "both parties" are peddling "fear" in this year's election season - but his formulation Tuesday night of how 2008 was "the hope election" while this one ...
8/24/2010 9:18 AM ET
Appearing on the Late Show on Monday night, NBC anchor Brian Williams bizarrely asserted "we're still enjoying the fruits really of the Clinton economy," claimed Tea Party activists who say "we ...
8/23/2010 11:54 PM ET
Dick Cavett in a New York Times post online: "These are not proud moments in my heritage. But now, I'm genuinely ashamed of us. How sad this whole mosque business is. It doesn't take much, it ...
8/23/2010 9:15 PM ET
ABC News set out Monday night to rehabilitate the reputation of the iman behind the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, Feisal Abdul Rauf, trying to discredit criticism of him from the right as ...
8/22/2010 2:06 PM ET
Not even feigning the pretense of balance, on Sunday's This Week host Christiane Amanpour featured an "exclusive" with two GZM proponents as she declared "the controversy has raised profound ...
8/21/2010 6:59 PM ET
Picking up on a nugget surprisingly included in a Wednesday Boston Globe article, on Thursday night FNC's Bret Baier reported in his "Grapevine" segment: "President Bush is apparently more popular ...
8/20/2010 11:43 AM ET
Andrew Breslau, who for eight years ending in 2006 toiled at CNN "as a senior manager and producer," has been named President of New York City-based The Nation Institute, affiliated with the ...
8/19/2010 9:53 PM ET
Chuck Todd despaired that Obama's focus on his job had left him vulnerable to abuse: "During the campaign, Team Obama repeatedly refuted these charges with a special Web site they created called ...
8/18/2010 11:04 PM ET
Newsweek, recently sold for one dollar by the Washington Post Company but still in its hands, ranked the United States 11th, just behind Denmark, in this week's "The Best Countries in the World" ...
8/17/2010 12:35 PM ET
Opposition to building a mosque near Ground Zero really sent Time's Joe Klein into a tirade. In a Monday night post on the magazine's "Swampland" blog, Klein condemned "slimeball politics" has he ...
8/16/2010 9:11 PM ET
Dan Harris, who last year trashed the Tea Party as "actually largely orchestrated by people fronting for corporate interests" and smeared participants as "driven...by a refusal to accept a black ...
8/16/2010 4:59 PM ET
In a Monday USA Today editorial, the "nation's newspaper" declared: "The argument over building a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero is mostly a sorry exercise in political exploitation" ...
8/15/2010 2:15 PM ET
President Obama's endorsement of building a mosque near Ground Zero has driven the establishment press corps to find nobility in pursuing conviction even in the face of public opposition, not ...
8/14/2010 11:05 PM ET
Crazies on the left allow journalists to see themselves as under siege from both sides of the spectrum, and thus must be playing it down the middle. To wit: Saturday's Washington Post carried a ...
