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
6/1/2010 9:10 AM ET
Three noteworthy quotes from journalists I tweeted over the holiday weekend: Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, author of the 'The Promise: President Obama, Year One,' on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher ...
6/1/2010 1:26 AM ET
Three months after the networks, led by ABC's Jonathan Karl, derided Senator Jim Bunning for daring to hold up an "emergency" spending bill which circumvented the "pay as you go" rules, on ...
5/30/2010 11:23 AM ET
Another pro-illegal alien protest and, once again, the networks champion the cause. "Day of outrage, anger on the streets of Phoenix and across this country tonight," ABC anchor David Muir ...
5/28/2010 8:13 PM ET
"Eight years of the Bush-Cheney administration removing regulations" has made it so "now the oil industry is too big to regulate," former Time magazine Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Margaret ...
5/28/2010 5:06 PM ET
Shortly before 2 PM CDT, CNN"s Ed Henry cited a dismissive remark President Barack Obama made during his visit to Louisiana which could undermine his "I feel your pain" message, "but," Henry ...
5/28/2010 8:56 AM ET
The White House press corps just loved President Obama's press conference anecdote ("When I woke up this morning, and I'm shaving and Malia knocks on my bathroom door and she peeks in her head and ...
5/28/2010 8:23 AM ET
The White House press corps just loved President Obama's press conference anecdote ("When I woke up this morning, and I'm shaving and Malia knocks on my bathroom door and she peeks in her head and ...
5/27/2010 2:31 PM ET
At Thursday's press conf, Helen Thomas came through with one of her usual crackpot rants ' with a dose of Bush-bashing mixed in: "When are you going to get out of Afghanistan? Why are we ...
5/26/2010 1:14 AM ET
The Washington press corps "have only themselves to blame" for President Obama refusing to answer their questions at White House events, Washington Examiner's Byron York contended. "Obama treats ...
5/25/2010 10:06 PM ET
CBS and NBC on Tuesday night reached deep into a Washington Post story ' specifically, the 20th paragraph of a 24-paragraph article ' to pluck out a quote in order to demonstrate a "frustrated" ...
5/23/2010 2:03 PM ET
Forwarding moral equivalence, Sam Donaldson defended Mexico's President for using a speech before Congress to criticize Arizona: "President Bill Clinton went to the Great Hall of the People...I ...
5/22/2010 11:56 PM ET
Collating my Friday night tweets on Bill Maher, my nominations for the slimiest, most paranoid and dumbest quotes from Maher on his HBO show, Real Time.
5/22/2010 2:41 PM ET
ABC and NBC rushed to get stories onto the air Friday night delivering left-wing talking points against the new social studies curriculum guidelines passed by the Texas State Board of Education, ...
5/20/2010 8:50 PM ET
With "Sharp Words" forming the on-screen graphic, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer on Thursday night championed the domestic gun control argument espoused by a foreign leader trying to shift the blame for ...
5/19/2010 10:05 PM ET
ABC, CBS and NBC all showcased a second grader's question to Michelle Obama: "Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn't have papers," but "my mom doesn't have papers." ABC suggested it ...
5/17/2010 8:53 PM ET
After ABC's Jonathan Karl painted Senator Arlen Specter's troubles as emblematic of how "the national anti-incumbent wave has hit Pennsylvania," George Stephanopoulos fretted on World News about ...
5/16/2010 5:33 PM ET
On Tuesday, actors Morgan Freeman, Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris and Cherry Jones will narrate "the world premiere performance of The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers," a production ...
5/14/2010 9:18 PM ET
Another sycophantic book about President Barack Obama, another showcasing of it by NBC News. Friday's NBC Nightly News aired a first-person recitation, from Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, of a ...
5/13/2010 9:47 PM ET
The night after two major national polls confirmed overwhelming majorities support Arizona's impending immigration enforcement statute, CBS and ABC promoted the cause of activists in the minority. ...
5/12/2010 9:40 PM ET
NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd seemed astonished by how a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll confirmed solid agreement with Arizona's immigration enforcement law ' "a whopping 64 ...
