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
5/12/2013 2:40 PM ET
Asked on Sunday’s Reliable Sources if the wider media dismissed the Weekly Standard
story, by Stephen Hayes about the Benghazi talking points getting
altered to take out any references to ...
5/12/2013 8:28 AM ET
My alternate headline for this item: “NBC’s Today Show on
Benghazi: ‘There Are So Many Issues the Country Faces. This Is One of
Them.’” That dismissive attitude came from ABC News veteran Mark ...
5/7/2013 8:18 AM ET
Fox News Channel analyst and former anchor Brit Hume asserted Monday
night that for Benghazi “to become the scandal it surely deserves to be
will require another ingredient: Relentless news ...
5/6/2013 6:09 AM ET
NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday brought aboard another lefty whose far-left views are usually only heard on MSNBC, but Joy-Ann Reid, Managing Editor of TheGrio.com,
the NBC News site aimed at ...
5/5/2013 2:57 PM ET
Proof Sunday morning that Republicans can use their power to hold House
hearings to force media coverage of topics journalists have shown little
interest in probing. CBS's Face the Nation led ...
4/27/2013 4:41 PM ET
In a new low for David Letterman – on both a professional and comedic level – each night this past week he devoted a Late Show
“Stooge of the Night” segment to a Senator who dared to oppose the ...
4/15/2013 12:25 AM ET
NBC synergy in action. Saturday Night Live opens with a skit
hitting President Barack Obama from the left for celebrating picayune
progress on gun control and, the next morning, Meet the Press ...
4/8/2013 7:38 AM ET
Bill Maher just can’t resist denigrating those who choose to join our
military forces. Catching up with a comment from his Friday night show
on HBO, when discussing what motivates soldiers to ...
4/3/2013 7:43 AM ET
Does journalistic insistence on catapulting President Barack Obama into historic greatness and relevance know no bounds? CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley on Tuesday night insisted ...
3/20/2013 11:47 PM ET
FX’s The Americans.
Last week, the historic drama set in 1981, portrayed a successful KGB
effort to discredit a Polish priest, who is leading an anti-Soviet
liberation movement, by smearing ...
3/20/2013 8:08 AM ET
A lengthy – 3,500 word – anguished expose on the front page of Sunday’s Washington Post, “Hungering for a new month to begin,”
about how people in Woonsocket, Rhode Island race to the grocery ...
3/16/2013 2:36 PM ET
The Obama administration in 2009 dropped the Bush administration’s
plan to add missile interceptor capability against North Korea, yet on
Friday, when Obama’s Pentagon realized their error and ...
3/9/2013 2:39 PM ET
Charles Krauthammer credited President Obama’s charm offensive toward
Republicans to his losing the news media which couldn’t any longer abide
his ridiculous sequester “cut” exaggerations. ...
3/4/2013 7:37 AM ET
“Do you all feel that your party is somehow being held hostage?” Bob
Schieffer asked Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham,
presumably referring to those opposed to raising taxes. ...
2/26/2013 11:07 AM ET
Picking up on a Saturday front page New York Times story
on how the Obama campaign is selling access to the White House through
its newly formed Organizing for Action group, a revelation ...
2/24/2013 8:46 PM ET
HBO’s Sunday night dramady, Enlightened, is delivering something very rare: A true to life depiction of a journalist – specifically identified as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times
– as a ...
2/21/2013 9:07 AM ET
KGB operatives infiltrated conservative media? Wednesday night’s episode of FX’s The Americans
imagines that in 1981 a conservative magazine employed a journalist who
was really a KGB mole. On ...
2/18/2013 8:40 AM ET
It’s bad enough that Chris Matthews gets two hours a day on MSNBC to
showcase his anti-conservative rants, but why does host David Gregory
undermine any pretense that NBC News is not the same ...
2/13/2013 8:04 PM ET
Last week’s second episode of The Americans (the third episode ran last night, February 13, on FX), dramatically ended with a scene
showing the horror realized by KGB operatives at the Soviet ...
2/12/2013 8:34 PM ET
Previewing the State of the Union address, CBS Evening News anchor
Scott Pelley repeatedly scolded Republican House Speaker John Boehner
for daring to criticize President Barack Obama’s ...
