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
8/14/2010 12:36 PM ET
On August 2, Time's Joe Klein fretted Obama's Iraq speech "will not be remembered as vividly as George Bush's juvenile march across the deck of an aircraft carrier," but back when Bush's USS ...
8/13/2010 1:28 PM ET
ABC News producers on Thursday night managed to sneak, into the script read by World News fill-in anchor George Stephanopoulos ' ever so briefly ' two news items from a conservative news agenda ...
8/12/2010 11:54 PM ET
In FNC's "Grapevine" segment Thursday night, Shannon Bream highlighted a finding in the latest NBC poll which NBC's Chuck Todd failed to point out. Bream observed: "A new poll suggests Americans ...
8/12/2010 11:59 AM ET
Jennifer Loven, an 18-year AP veteran and the wire service's chief White House correspondent, has decided to put her communications talents to work for The Glover Park Group, a DC-based "strategic ...
8/11/2010 7:52 PM ET
Dan Rostenkowski (?-Ill), 1928-2010. Reporting the passing of Dan Rostenkowski, the ABC and NBC anchors on Wednesday night noted his ignominious departure from public life while also including a ...
8/10/2010 10:54 PM ET
Michael Calderone reported Tuesday afternoon on "The Upshot" Yahoo News blog: "Former White House social secretary Desirée Rogers has been named chief executive of Johnson Publishing Company, ...
8/9/2010 10:03 PM ET
ABC on Monday night delivered an even shoddier than usual piece of advocacy for President Barack Obama in the guise of a news story, duplicity which started with fill-in anchor George ...
8/8/2010 12:35 PM ET
Christiane Amanpour elevated a liberal British journalist (Gillian Tett), with little U.S. television experience, to the This Week roundtable where she presumed the government must run the economy ...
8/7/2010 1:46 PM ET
USA Today founder Al Neuharth used his weekly column on Friday to ridicule Rush Limbaugh, marking the 22nd anniversary of Limbaugh's national radio show by denouncing the conservative talk titan ...
8/6/2010 7:40 AM ET
"History was made in this country today when the Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court," declared NBC anchor Lester Holt as viewers were treated to a "Making History" on-screen ...
8/5/2010 7:48 AM ET
In the first voter referendum on ObamaCare, Missourians on Tuesday overwhelmingly (by 71 to 29 percent) repudiated it, an outcome the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described as "rebuking President ...
8/4/2010 10:57 AM ET
Opening Tuesday's World News with the workplace shooting in Manchester, Connecticut, anchor Diane Sawyer saw it as one in a long line of incidents involving a "worker with a gun and grudge" as she ...
8/1/2010 11:44 PM ET
President Obama's approval level has plummeted, but instead of attributing that to independents rejecting his liberal policies, CBS's Harry Smith contended events beyond Obama's control conspired ...
8/1/2010 1:38 PM ET
In her debut as host of ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour, the CNN international correspondent brought a foreigner's perspective as she treated her lack of knowledge and familiarity with ...
7/31/2010 1:45 PM ET
Democratic New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's theatrical temper tantrum rant on the House floor Thursday night, against supposed Republican obstructionism, animated cable news on Friday and ...
7/30/2010 12:58 AM ET
"Anger in the streets and we're there for the protests," ABC anchor Diane Sawyer teased in making reaction from a few opposed to Arizona's immigration enforcement efforts her top story on Thursday ...
7/28/2010 8:14 PM ET
"In a matter of minutes, relief replaced dread, hope replaced fear," ABC's Barbara Pinto trumpeted in framing a Wednesday night look, at reaction to a federal judge's ruling blocking Arizona's ...
7/27/2010 7:49 PM ET
Less than two days before Arizona's immigration enforcement law is scheduled to go into effect, ABC delivered another installment in the national media's efforts to discredit it and paint the law ...
7/26/2010 7:43 PM ET
CBS's Lara Logan may be in Uganda, but she recognized the skew of media coverage of the WikiLeaks war documents on the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan as she contended "the coverage would indicate ...
7/26/2010 12:10 AM ET
Four months after leading Face the Nation with uncorroborated allegations from left-wing bloggers about racist and homophobic outbursts by anti-Obamacare protesters, spread in an effort to ...
