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
5/12/2010 3:32 PM ET
"Will doing 'big things' wind up costing Obama?" a Wednesday USA Today front page article worried, accompanied by a photo of contemplative President Barack Obama with Abraham Lincoln in a painting ...
5/12/2010 9:24 AM ET
Dan Rather just won't go away nor update his obstinate refusal to acknowledge liberal media bias. Confronted with MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski's observation that the mainstream media convey "a ...
5/10/2010 8:51 PM ET
In quite a contrast to tagging of the Bush and Obama Supreme Court nominees as "conservative," on Monday night ABC and NBC refrained from applying any ideological description to Supreme Court ...
5/10/2010 1:03 PM ET
NBC and ABC on Thursday night framed stories around concerns of "abortion rights" advocates who want proof Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is on their side, but both cloaked their pieces ...
5/10/2010 12:56 PM ET
A baffled CBS expressed bewilderment over where Obama's SCOTUS nominee stands. "Pundits usually label judges as either liberal or conservative, but that won't be easy with Judge Sotomayor," Katie ...
5/10/2010 12:50 PM ET
Amazingly, after showing no reluctance in 2005 to describe John Roberts and Sam Alito as "conservative" or worse, the Tuesday network evening newscasts applied more "conservative" tags to Supreme ...
5/10/2010 12:42 PM ET
Network anchors and reporters didn't hesitate to apply strong ideological labels (not just quoting others) to President Bush's two Supreme Court nominees, John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Will they ...
5/10/2010 10:11 AM ET
"This is a damn outrage, a disgusted David Brooks, the faux conservative columnist for the Times, declared on Sunday's Meet the Press reacting to Republican Senator Bob Bennett's loss Saturday at ...
5/10/2010 12:37 AM ET
A quick look at the flavor Sunday night's fawning 60 Minutes profile of Hillary Clinton which framed her job around the challenge of fixing a world abused by George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice. ...
5/9/2010 1:46 PM ET
"This is a damn outrage," a disgusted David Brooks declared on Sunday's Meet the Press reacting to Republican Senator Bob Bennett's loss at Utah's GOP convention. Brooks fretted he was punished ...
5/7/2010 10:17 AM ET
CBS's Bob Orr highlighted video of Shahzad's apartment, empathetically describing how Shahzad "lived a spartan and seemingly lonely existence" as evidenced by "a weight bench that passed for ...
5/6/2010 4:15 PM ET
Actress Scarlett Johansson, who campaigned for Barack Obama, remains in the tank for him. She admitted on Wednesday night's Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson that she was amongst those who "drank ...
5/5/2010 8:41 PM ET
Botched bomber Faisal Shahzad's failure to achieve the "American dream" may have been an important motive for his terrorist act, CBS's Bob Orr contended Wednesday night in a story in which he ...
5/5/2010 3:08 PM ET
News today that the Washington Post Company has put the money-losing Newsweek up for sale reminded me of how during the last presidential campaign the "news" weekly repeatedly showcased their ...
5/4/2010 6:56 PM ET
Before "a disturbing change" of character in early 2009, Faisal Shahzad, ABC's Chris Cuomo asserted Tuesday night, "seemed to be living the American dream" with a wife who "says she loves ...
5/3/2010 10:58 PM ET
Katie Couric noted "hundreds of thousands" of illegal immigrants "live in Arizona," but fretted "many" of those illegals "no longer feel welcome." Instead of seeing that as good news which will ...
5/3/2010 6:50 PM ET
With Katie Couric drawing him out, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg agreed the Times Square car bombing was likely "homegrown" as he proceeded, in an interview excerpt run on Monday's CBS ...
5/2/2010 1:49 PM ET
Comments on two Sunday shows reflected an emerging new liberal line of reasoning, which uses the lack of opposition to Arizona's new immigration enforcement law, as a means to discredit ...
5/1/2010 9:17 PM ET
"Angry backlash from coast to coast," ABC's David Muir teased Saturday's World News, "huge rallies across this country tonight against that new controversial immigration law." On CBS, Jeff Glor ...
5/1/2010 1:45 PM ET
On Friday night, NBC promoted leftist May Day protests against Arizona's new immigration enforcement law while CBS, after a full week of coverage focused on outrage against it, finally bothered to ...
