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
10/5/2013 8:07 PM ET
“After the President vetoed several spending bills, not one story
blamed him for the shutdown, but nearly two dozen declared the GOP
culpable. Furloughed workers and other ‘victims’ were ...
9/30/2013 8:12 PM ET
Resurrecting an ideological tag from the 1980s media era, on Monday’s CBS Evening News, the network’s chief Washington correspondent, Bob Schieffer, fretted over how “ultra-conservatives” in ...
9/29/2013 3:38 PM ET
In defiance of reality illustrated in numerous polls, on Sunday’s Face the Nation,
host Bob Schieffer scolded Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn
when she correctly asserted “there is ...
9/28/2013 11:54 AM ET
Senator Mike Lee, Steve Hayes, Monica Crowley, Jim DeMint, Cal Thomas and Charles Krauthammer highlighted the MRC’s “2013 Gala featuring the DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased ...
9/23/2013 6:55 AM ET
PBS put its late-night leftism on display on Meet the Press when PBS host Tavis Smiley
used his slot, on the Sunday morning NBC News show’s panel, to regret
President Barack Obama’s supposed ...
9/15/2013 8:28 PM ET
Imagine a major news network anchor, in 1985, telling President Reagan
that five years into his presidency rising income inequality wasn’t his
fault. Ludicrous, given how the media used the ...
9/9/2013 7:10 AM ET
Friday in Russia, President Obama let slip that putting Congress on the
hook, or in a political bind, was part of his calculus in asking for
their approval for an attack on Syria, but twice on ...
8/29/2013 8:00 AM ET
PBS’s Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill provided a tag team of Obama idolatry
in their interview with President Barack Obama at the White House
following Wednesday’s March on Washington anniversary ...
7/28/2013 2:32 PM ET
Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew, who oversees the IRS, made the rounds of four Sunday morning TV talk shows (all but CBS’s Face the Nation)
to promote President Obama’s latest “pivot” to ...
7/20/2013 2:04 PM ET
Once again obscuring any line between MSNBC and NBC News, Brian Williams
brought frequent MSNBC contributor Joy-Ann Reid aboard Friday’s NBC Nightly News
to praise President Obama’s comments ...
6/18/2013 6:58 AM ET
The Washington Examiner’s weekly “Mainstream Media Scream” feature in Paul Bedard's “Washington Secrets” column. For each pick, the MRC provide an
explanation and recommend a “scream” rating.
6/2/2013 4:26 PM ET
See no scandal, report no scandal. Jill Abramson, Executive Editor of the New York Times,
came down to DC on Sunday to defend President Obama on the scandals and
the economy, stressing the ...
6/2/2013 1:48 PM ET
Pivoting to the downside for President Obama of the swirling scandals, Meet the Press host David Gregory fretted over “a bigger issue that the President faces, which is where is his agenda left in ...
6/1/2013 2:52 PM ET
Though he had no idea what it was, the annual “Bush Center Warrior 100K”
mountain bike ride, which took place over the Memorial Day weekend,
upset Bill Maher. “I guess they walked or ran or ...
5/28/2013 7:31 PM ET
Once again demonstrating the NBC Nightly News is the
broadcast arm of MSNBC, anchor Brian Williams – matching what has
animated MSNBC hosts – devoted a segment to former Senator Bob Dole ...
5/25/2013 8:21 PM ET
Not a syllable Friday or Saturday night on ABC, CBS or NBC about any of the several Obama scandals, but on Saturday night ABC’s World News trumpeted President Obama’s role as “consoler-in-chief.” ...
5/25/2013 1:14 PM ET
“Liberal media bias is an old complaint,” the Wall Street Journal’s
James Taranto noted in his “Best of the Web Today” column this past
Monday on responses to the Obama scandals, before ...
5/24/2013 6:57 AM ET
Already moving on from the IRS scandal? On Thursday night, only the CBS Evening News
of the broadcast network evening newscasts bothered to note how Lois
Lerner, the IRS official in charge of ...
5/21/2013 7:50 AM ET
Monday’s CBS Evening News took one break from Oklahoma
tornado coverage – to run a piece on how an IRS manager who recently
retired from the Cincinnati office, where 501 (c)(4) applications ...
5/15/2013 11:52 AM ET
This Friday, May 17, will be the final day for TimesWatch posts. The
Media Research Center will be consolidating products and, as a result,
TimesWatch posts and the TimesWatch Tracker will be ...
