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).
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2/6/2010 12:34 PM ET
"Barely scratch the surface, and there's a tone of anger and confrontation," at the Tea Party convention, ABC's John Berman insisted Friday night. Berman concluded: "One of the goals of this ...
2/4/2010 11:24 PM ET
File under: you read it here first. "The Washington Post ignored a few historical facts when it proclaimed in a front page article Wednesday that President Obama is quote, 'a rare President who ...
2/3/2010 1:28 PM ET
"Former Washington Post film critic Desson Thomson will join the Obama administration and head to London as a speechwriter for Ambassador Louis Susman," Washington Post "Federal Eye" blogger Ed ...
2/3/2010 9:09 AM ET
Only ABC led with the comments from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) against "don't ask/don't tell" as anchor Diane Sawyer called it "a dramatic day on Capitol Hill" and reporter ...
2/3/2010 1:00 AM ET
ABC's Diane Saywer calls testimony 'dramatic' and 'truly historic.'
2/1/2010 8:15 PM ET
Cautioning the Obama administration's "deficit projections...are just that, projections," NBC's Chuck Todd on Monday evening bought into the claim health care reform bills are actually spending ...
1/31/2010 11:46 PM ET
In a contribution to the Boston Globe Magazine nine days before the Jan. 19 Senate election won by Republican Scott Brown, the Globe's Charles Pierce ridiculed the idea Brown could win: "Well, ...
1/31/2010 1:08 PM ET
Barbara Walters began her This Week interview with Scott Brown by reciting how "at 12 you were arrested for shoplifting" and "at 22 you posed nude," before she pressed him from the left to ...
1/30/2010 12:39 PM ET
Reporting on President Obama's appearance before GOP House members at their retreat in Baltimore, Chip Reid was in awe of Obama and delivered lines that might as well have been formulated by White ...
1/28/2010 7:54 AM ET
Nightline anchor Terry Moran started laughing Wednesday night just as George Will finished his critique of President Obama's State of the Union address while Democratic activist Donna Brazile was ...
1/28/2010 1:24 AM ET
Following President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, on CBS Katie Couric revealed her reading interests as she endorsed the take on Obama from a liberal New York Times columnist: "Well, ...
1/27/2010 1:15 PM ET
Scott Brown replacing Ted Kennedy in the Senate really irritated Washington Post business section columnist Steven Pearlstein, who cited Brown's victory as an example of the "wretched" state of ...
1/25/2010 8:28 PM ET
Diane Sawyer's interview with President Barack Obama wasn't nearly as sycophantic as the one conducted last Wednesday by George Stephanopoulos, but in her "if you were a tree, what kind would you ...
1/25/2010 6:44 PM ET
The front page of Monday's Washington Post featured an adulatory tribute to President Barack Obama's brilliance in gathering information so he can take care of the little people, a tribute enabled ...
1/24/2010 3:22 PM ET
With the exception of George Will, the panel on ABC's This Week (hosted by Terry Moran) roundtable insisted Scott Brown's Massachusetts Senate seat victory was less an anti-liberal or anti-Obama ...
1/22/2010 8:23 PM ET
Quip of the day, from columnist Charles Krauthammer on Friday's Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC: "This is an amazing week. Massachusetts goes Republican, health care dies and the Supreme ...
1/22/2010 7:59 PM ET
Quip of the day, from columnist Charles Krauthammer on Friday's Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC: "This is an amazing week. Massachusetts goes Republican, health care dies and the Supreme ...
1/22/2010 8:39 AM ET
Even more unhinged than usual, and that's saying a lot, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann delivered a tirade Thursday night in a "Special Comment" in which he declared the Supreme Court's ruling, that ...
1/21/2010 8:30 PM ET
Instead of painting a victory for free speech in the Supreme Court's ruling that corporations can spend money to influence elections, Thursday night newscasts feared a ruinous future: "Opening ...
1/20/2010 8:24 PM ET
The day after President Obama's policies were rebuked in one of the most liberal states, the White House turned to George Stephanopoulos and an accommodating Stephanopoulos, in the excerpt run on ...
