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
2/11/2013 2:31 AM ET
CNN anchor Deb Feyerick asked Saturday afternoon if an
approaching asteroid, which will pass by Earth on February 15, “is an example of, perhaps, global warming?” Moments earlier, before an ad ...
2/11/2013 2:16 AM ET
Foreign Policy, “a global magazine of politics, economics, and ideas,” has “just delivered its new issue, and like Newsweek before,” the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard noticed Friday ...
2/4/2013 8:18 AM ET
It wasn’t the embarrassing kiss-up debacle CBS’s Steve Kroft delivered a week ago from the White House, but CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, in his late afternoon pre-Super Bowl sit down with ...
1/31/2013 7:52 PM ET
FX’s new series which debuted Wednesday night, The Americans,
is centered around husband and wife KGB sleeper agents who live with
their kids as ordinary Americans in suburban Washington, ...
1/30/2013 8:58 PM ET
Last month, when the Republican Governor of South Carolina named GOP
U.S. Representative Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate, the “first African
American U.S. Senator from the South since Blanche ...
1/26/2013 9:40 PM ET
The annual pro-life march, this year marking the 40th anniversary of the
Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision, drew tens of thousands to
Washington, DC on Friday, but didn’t garner a syllable ...
1/26/2013 4:05 AM ET
“Is Hillary Clinton the new Barack Obama in the eyes of the national
media?” Bill O’Reilly asked in his Friday night “Talking Points Memo,”
using the same examples as highlighted in the ...
1/23/2013 9:55 PM ET
ABC and NBC, and CBS to a lesser extent, on Wednesday night
treated Secretary of State Clinton’s appearances before Senate and House
committees not as an chance to explore Obama administration ...
1/22/2013 8:59 AM ET
“Analysts on the left and the right are calling President Obama’s second
inaugural address the most liberal speech he has delivered in office,”
FNC’s Bret Baier announced at the top of ...
1/19/2013 11:13 AM ET
Conservatives have long joked that the national press corps see Barack Obama as the second coming of Jesus Christ. Today, Newsweek – at least what’s left of it, an online product for tablets and ...
1/19/2013 10:28 AM ET
All three broadcast network evening newscasts on Friday night ran short
items on the federal corruption indictments against the bumbling former
Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, but skipped his ...
1/13/2013 3:21 PM ET
Reflecting the typical Washington definition of a budget “cut” – in
which a slight reduction in a projected increase is a “cut” and a
measurable decrease in the rate of growth is a “draconian” ...
1/8/2013 8:49 AM ET
Monday night, viewers of CBS-owned Showtime were treated to the ninth of ten installments of Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, which has attacked U.S. leaders – from FDR to ...
1/7/2013 8:46 AM ET
Sounds like a personal vendetta ahead of genuine regret. CBS Late Show
host David Letterman admitted to Oprah Winfrey, in an interview first
aired Sunday night, that he backtracked after ...
1/6/2013 3:25 PM ET
Getting reactions to the “fiscal cliff” deal/postponement from Alan
Simpson and Erskine Bowles – they of the much-cited “Simpson-Bowles
Commission” – Meet the Press host David Gregory ...
1/1/2013 5:46 PM ET
“Every year a conservative watchdog organization, the Media Research Center, names the worst reporters of the year,” Fox NewsWatch host Jon Scott announced, ending Saturday afternoon’s show with ...
12/30/2012 8:09 PM ET
Time magazine’s Joe Klein can’t get his basic biographic facts straight, but he’s sure the “fiscal cliff” impasse should
be blamed on Grover Norquist on Rush Limbaugh for leading a ...
12/28/2012 12:12 AM ET
The second runners-up quotes in the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2012: The Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.” As announced in a CyberAlert Special last
week, the ...
12/27/2012 1:48 PM ET
The first runners-up quotes in the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2012: The Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.” As announced in a CyberAlert Special
last week, the ...
12/27/2012 11:14 AM ET
ABC News had to wait two weeks to get on air Barbara Walters’ interview
with the Obamas -- and then the network’s evening newscast decided to
focus on her asking Barack and Michelle Obama ...
