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
2/28/2010 2:47 PM ET
Quite a contrast in how ABC's Elizabeth Vargas, taking her turn hosting This Week, approached House Speaker Nancy Pelosi versus Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, all before agreeing with Sam ...
2/27/2010 1:32 AM ET
Bill Maher began and ended his Friday night HBO program with derogatory "jokes" based on the presumption Palin and her supporters are morons. He started by labeling her "a brain-dead woman" and ...
2/25/2010 8:14 PM ET
"The President often seemed exasperated with Republican arguments," CBS's Chip Reid empathetically conveyed in reporting on Thursday's health care summit before he declared Obama had succeeded: ...
2/25/2010 8:13 AM ET
On Wednesday night Diane Sawyer again put ABC into service for the liberal spin machine the night before President Obama's health summit, teasing: "Big insurance executives forced to answer why ...
2/23/2010 11:45 PM ET
Advancing the Obama administration's efforts to impugn private insurance companies, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer set up a Tuesday night story on who will "keep insurance companies from jacking up ...
2/23/2010 12:57 AM ET
Monday night all three evening newscasts employed terminology congenial to Obama's wish to interfere in the marketplace by trumpeting how Obama would "block insurance companies from unreasonable ...
2/22/2010 9:36 AM ET
Hosting Sunday's This Week on ABC, Terry Moran noted during the past week the Obama administration "fanned out across the country" to trumpet how "the stimulus worked," yet President Obama ...
2/20/2010 10:17 AM ET
Former President Ronald Reagan would have prosecuted Dick Cheney for war crimes, Seth MacFarlane (IMDb page), creator, writer and executive producer of the Family Guy, American Dad! and The ...
2/18/2010 11:51 PM ET
Though polls and recent election results illustrate public antipathy to big government deficit spending and a preference for right-leaning Republicans, Thursday's CBS Evening News foresaw an ...
2/17/2010 10:16 PM ET
On the one-year anniversary of the "stimulus" spending bill, ABC, CBS and NBC eagerly corroborated White House claims about how it "saved or created" many jobs, though they all offered a range of ...
2/17/2010 1:38 AM ET
In a Tuesday NBC Nightly News story, reporter Ron Mott actually acknowledged that the decision to use "environmentally friendly" ice resurfacing machines "that kept breaking down" had led to ...
2/14/2010 5:38 PM ET
Words never spoken before by a CBS News journalist: "Do you think also that George Bush would also need a little thanks for that?" That very unusual quest to credit former President Bush came from ...
2/13/2010 3:44 PM ET
On the eve of the Winter Olympics four years ago, Bryant Gumbel couldn't resist taking a racial shot at the Republican Party in a commentary at the end of his Real Sports magazine show on HBO: ...
2/13/2010 9:38 AM ET
Sarah Palin "doesn't have any substance there behind her" and her remarks at the Tea Party convention were "embarrassing at points" since she delivered "simple, simple thoughts, very ...
2/12/2010 8:24 PM ET
Reporting Congressman Patrick Kennedy's decision to not run for re-election this fall for his House seat representing Rhode Island, CBS and ABC on Friday night bemoaned the impending lack of a ...
2/12/2010 1:04 PM ET
People around the world view Canada as "very hip" because of its "progressive" health care and environmental policies, actor/impersonator Martin Short contended in a soundbite featured in a ...
2/11/2010 11:44 PM ET
In a new CBS News/New York Times poll, President Barack Obama's disapproval level jumped five points, to 45 percent since the last survey in mid-January, with approval now at just 46 percent, but ...
2/10/2010 11:51 PM ET
Though 53 percent disapprove of Obama's handling of health care and more are opposed to than in favor of the congressional Democrats/Obama plan, ABC's George Stephanopoulos asserted a health care ...
2/8/2010 9:15 PM ET
From Monday's evening newscasts: CBS and NBC found hypocrisy in Sarah Palin scolding President Obama's incessant use of a Teleprompter while she had "crib notes" written on her hand, CBS followed ...
2/7/2010 9:26 PM ET
Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement "both have far less support in the country at large than a gullible Old Media seems to understand or suggest," Time's Mark Halperin asserted while colleague ...
