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
3/17/2010 2:32 AM ET
By a 12 point margin, those asked, in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey, called "Barack Obama's health care plan" a "bad idea" (48 percent) over a "good idea" (36 percent.) Yet, NBC ...
3/16/2010 8:22 PM ET
Based on some mild and indiscernible shouts by people in a hallway outside the office of a House member, CBS's Chip Reid on Tuesday night tried to discredit anti-ObamaCare protesters, claiming "at ...
3/16/2010 10:50 AM ET
Perfectly timed for the week President Barack Obama is pushing the House to vote on ObamaCare, on tonight's (Tuesday) episode of CBS's The Good Wife, set at a Chicago law firm, the lawyers "battle ...
3/15/2010 8:20 PM ET
While ABC and CBS on Monday night focused on President Obama's "final push" for health care and the plight of Natoma Canfield, Obama's poster woman for victims of rising health insurance premiums, ...
3/15/2010 1:50 AM ET
Three weeks after the mom on ABC's Brothers & Sisters fretted over GOP "denying global warming," the ABC drama was centered around her daughter, a GOP Senate candidate, coming under attack ...
3/13/2010 9:55 PM ET
In 2008, just four years after leaving NBC News, Jane Pauley gave the maximum allowed donation to Barack Obama and campaigned for him, proclaiming "I want to see the cool, steady hand of Barack ...
3/11/2010 2:35 AM ET
Wednesday's NBC Nightly News made time to showcase an unhinged liberal Democrat, Representative Patrick Kennedy, screaming against the media during House floor remarks in favor of a Dennis ...
3/10/2010 10:22 AM ET
ABC and CBS on Tuesday night picked up on the cause of a small anti-health insurance industry protest in DC organized by left-wing labor groups, but instead of denigrating them as the networks did ...
3/9/2010 10:17 AM ET
"During the presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama often used the phrase 'fired up' to do just that to the crowd. Democrats have been openly wondering when he was going to bring that ...
3/7/2010 2:34 PM ET
Setting up Sunday's Face the Nation, CBS's Bob Schieffer described guest Evan Bayh simply as "the Indiana Democrat" while tagging Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is every bit, if not more, ...
3/7/2010 2:57 AM ET
It wasn't on the Fox News Channel (FNC) nor a Fox News production carried on Fox (such as Fox News Sunday), but President Barack Obama received a warm and appreciative session with John Walsh, ...
3/6/2010 11:19 PM ET
On this past Tuesday's episode of The Good Wife on CBS, viewers were treated to a scene in which a ballistics expert opens a gift, from a partner of a law firm, to find a book about Sarah Palin ...
3/6/2010 4:06 PM ET
Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore, appearing on Friday night's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO to plug the DVD release of his Capitalism: A Love Story screed, cited the 250,000 killed in Haiti, ...
3/6/2010 2:47 PM ET
ABC's World News on Friday night finally caught up with burgeoning Democratic scandals, though hardly showing the same zeal as when the networks incessantly focused on Republican Congressman Mark ...
3/5/2010 10:53 AM ET
The night before NBC's Today show on Friday had an "exclusive" with Karl Rove to plug his new book, 'Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight' in which he assured readers ...
3/4/2010 12:45 AM ET
ABC squeezed in a short item Wednesday night on a House resolution to put Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill, a report most notable for the enticing mock-up ABC's graphics artists created.
3/3/2010 9:36 PM ET
What is Katie Couric drinking these days? Who has taken over her body? The CBS Evening News anchor on Wednesday night cited hypocritical positions or actions taken by President Barack Obama ...
3/2/2010 9:11 PM ET
ABC's World News scolded Senator Jim Bunning for daring to block a $10 billion spending bill until it is offset by cuts, parading victims as Diane Sawyer and Jonathan Karl painted him as a ...
3/2/2010 12:54 AM ET
A retiring Senator not facing re-election stood up last week for principle, insisting new federal spending be covered by a matching reduction elsewhere, but instead of hailing Senator Jim Bunning ...
2/28/2010 11:15 PM ET
Hollywood writers aren't reticent about inserting gratuitous political points into prime time dramas, on ABC's Brothers and Sisters, the mom walked into her kitchen during a kick-off party for her ...
