Brent Baker

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

NBC and Newsweek Liken Obama to Spock: Both Victims of Prejudice

5/8/2009 11:13 AM ET
Concluding a Thursday NBC Nightly News story on summer movies, correspondent George Lewis previewed the new Star Trek film, set to open on Friday, and found it relevant to highlight how "some ...

NBC: 'Quintessential Obama' Doctrine of Talking Leads to Hug

5/7/2009 10:46 AM ET
The leaders of nations who quarreled when George Bush was President now hug each other, thanks to President Barack Obama deigning to take time from his busy schedule to hold a meeting which ...

Williams Recommends Liberal Reading List on Souter and Successor

5/6/2009 6:53 AM ET
NBC anchor Brian Williams' Web surfing centers on liberal sites, as at least evidenced by the reading list he recommended in his Monday afternoon entry on The Daily Nightly blog consisting of four ...

CBS Uses Kids' Letters to Promote 'Hope' of Obama

5/6/2009 6:17 AM ET
At the end of Monday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Bill Whitaker gave a fawning report on a book being complied of children's letters to President Obama: "Eight-year-old Lucy O'Brien loves to ...

NBC's Mitchell Hails Hillary Clinton: 'Foreign Policy Superstar!'

5/5/2009 6:26 AM ET
In a piece that could've been crafted by Hillary Clinton's PR shop, NBC's Andrea Mitchell, on Monday's Today show, gushed on and on about the Secretary of State's new 'role of a lifetime,' as a 'a ...

'Trollish' Limbaugh, Cheney Gingrich Turn Off Families to GOP

5/5/2009 6:20 AM ET
Chris Matthews asked his panel of reporters, on this past weekend's syndicated The Chris Matthews Show, to offer their prescriptions on how the GOP, in the wake of the Arlen Specter departure, can ...

ABC, CBS Blame Conservative Social Positions for GOP Misfortunes

5/5/2009 6:18 AM ET
On ABC's World News on Saturday, and the same day's CBS Evening News, correspondents suggested that conservative positions on social issues were responsible for the Republican party's recent ...

Linda Greenhouse Lavishes More Love on a Liberal Justice

5/5/2009 6:14 AM ET
New York Times' former Supreme Court reporter, liberal Linda Greenhouse, came out of journalistic retirement to write the lead Sunday Week in Review profile of retiring Supreme Court Justice David ...

ABC Features James Carville to Tout Theory of 40 Years of Dem Rule

5/5/2009 6:10 AM ET
ABC's Good Morning America, which has yet to interview talk show host Mark Levin about his best selling book on conservatism, featured James Carville on Monday to promote '40 More Years: How the ...

NBC Uses Kemp Obit to Tout Obama as Proof U.S. a 'Great' Nation

5/5/2009 5:32 AM ET
Nightly News delivered an obit on Kemp's life, but while Brian Williams didn't find room in his 37-second update to mention how Kemp was behind the successful, supply-side Regan tax cuts, he ...

CBS's Smith Discusses Obama's 100 Days With Left-Wing Pundits

4/30/2009 7:33 AM ET
In honor of President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office, on Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith decided to take an uncritical look at the President's performance with liberal ...