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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6/21/2010 8:53 PM ET
Katie Couric opened Monday's CBS Evening News by touting how "in a CBS News/New York Times poll out tonight, 43 percent of Americans approve of President Obama's handling of the spill. Only 13 ...
6/21/2010 12:09 AM ET
Network anchors can't resist misconstruing Arizona's upcoming immigration enforcement law. The latest instances came Friday night when Diane Sawyer erroneously described the anti-illegal ...
6/17/2010 12:34 PM ET
The "deeply polarized confirmation process in the Senate" has "undercut Obama's effort to significantly infuse the federal courts with more women and minorities," USA Today's Joan Biskupic fretted ...
6/17/2010 12:34 PM ET
The "deeply polarized confirmation process in the Senate" has "undercut Obama's effort to significantly infuse the federal courts with more women and minorities," USA Today's Joan Biskupic fretted ...
6/16/2010 9:00 AM ET
Confirming her membership in Manhattan's liberal elite, Katie Couric boasted on Tuesday's Late Show that she's realized she "should" buy a Toyota Prius, the favorite of conspicuously superior ...
6/15/2010 8:31 PM ET
President Obama's Oval Office address certainly impressed George Stephanopoulos. "What struck me tonight," he informed Diane Sawyer, is: "Oval Office addresses are often used when the nation is at ...
6/15/2010 8:26 AM ET
The current President of the White House Correspondents' Association, Ed Chen, is leaving Bloomberg News to lend his liberal advocacy to the left-wing Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). ...
6/14/2010 8:11 AM ET
HBO's Bill Maher insisted "I'm not trying to be a conspiracy theorist," but then proceeded to assert the Defense Department "uses more oil than anywhere else to kill people in the Middle East to ...
6/10/2010 9:16 PM ET
Completing a full spin through the revolving door, Linda Douglass, a long-time CBS and ABC correspondent before jumping aboard the Obama campaign ' followed by HHS and White House positions ...
6/10/2010 9:00 AM ET
ABC anchor Diane Sawyer greeted Meg Whitman's victory in California's Republican gubernatorial primary by forwarding Democrat Jerry Brown as the savior: "Jerry Brown told us today, he wants the ...
6/8/2010 10:51 PM ET
ABC's George Stephanopoulos touted how "we've got a new poll out tonight that shows the Tea Party may be losing steam nationwide" as its unfavorable rating has "gone up eleven points." ABC, ...
6/8/2010 8:16 PM ET
More than 24 hours after NBC's Matt Lauer prompted him to say it in an interview, the morning programs all showcased it ' and even after day-long playback on the cable channels ' CBS and NBC on ...
6/7/2010 7:43 PM ET
Insular liberal-media cycle: Liberal columnists demand that President Obama show "anger" over BP's oil leak, Obama promises NBC's Matt Lauer that he's determining "whose ass to kick" and so Brian ...
6/7/2010 6:30 AM ET
The number of major media journalists who have joined the Obama administration (or now an aligned union) - is up to 15 with the news late last week that Teddy Davis, Deputy Political Director for ...
6/6/2010 10:33 PM ET
ABC News found a picture they couldn't resist showcasing, no matter how much it exaggerates the dangers from the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Both Good Morning America and World News on Sunday ...
6/6/2010 2:24 PM ET
"Sooner or later, we'll blame this on George W. Bush," George Will presciently predicted on Sunday's Week during the roundtable's look as how President Barack Obama is handling the gulf oil leak. ...
6/5/2010 10:37 PM ET
I watch HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher so you don't have to. The most-noteworthy vitriol from Friday night's show that I tweeted last night - seven quotes, in sequence, you can read in less than ...
6/5/2010 2:27 PM ET
"Up next, why some Republicans are starting to wish the Tea Party was over," Katie Couric teased Friday night as CBS feigned concern over how Tea Party candidates are too "extreme" to win. CBS's ...
6/2/2010 8:19 PM ET
The obfuscation displayed by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Tuesday, in refusing to address factual contradictions in the Joe Sestak job offer storyline, is so obvious that even ...
6/1/2010 7:22 PM ET
On Tuesday's CBS Evening News, with the help of the Washington Post's Sally Quinn, Sharyl Attkisson managed to blame news, that Al and Tipper Gore are separating, on how they never got over being ...
