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
12/26/2012 9:47 AM ET
The winning quotes in the MRC’ “Best Notable Quotables of 2012: The Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.” As announced in a CyberAlert Special last
Tuesday, the awards ...
12/20/2012 9:33 AM ET
ABC’s Diane Sawyer described Robert Bork, who passed away Wednesday at
age 85, as “an icon to conservatives” and NBC anchor Brian Williams
called him a “conservative icon,” but CBS Evening ...
12/19/2012 9:23 AM ET
[UPDATE, Dec 19: On Tuesday morning, ABC’s Good Morning America spiked the news of Scott’s appointment, yet had time for far more frivolous matters, while CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today ...
12/2/2012 12:58 PM ET
In a colorful demonstration of the Washington press corps’ disdain for Grover Norquist and his anti-tax pledge, on Sunday’s This Week, a flustered ABC News/NPR veteran Cokie Roberts blurted out: ...
11/29/2012 8:53 PM ET
Demonstrating once more how the NBC Nightly News has become the
big audience outlet for MSNBC’s left-wing angst, Brian Williams
couldn’t even keep such silliness out of what should have been a ...
11/26/2012 8:38 PM ET
ABC anchor Diane Sawyer and correspondent Jonathan Karl on Monday night
salivated over Republicans breaking Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge.
“We did see a sign the paralysis may be ending,” ...
11/18/2012 9:06 PM ET
Two ABC News stars have proven, once again, the media’s obsession with
raising taxes over any effort to cut a cent of spending. Two days after
the election, anchor Diane Sawyer repeatedly ...
11/14/2012 2:43 AM ET
Actor/comedian Robert Klein let loose on Monday night’s Late Show, roaring back with his fists raised, shrieking a loud, guttural “yeah!” to celebrate President Barack Obama’s re-election. And ...
11/12/2012 7:59 AM ET
Tonight (Monday), CBS-owned Showtime will debut a ten-part series: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States. Ronald Radosh, in last week’s Weekly Standard,
determined it offers “not an ...
11/11/2012 9:12 PM ET
Sunday’s Meet the Press featured a panel of five, none of
them conservative (Congressman-elect Joaquín Castro, Republican
strategist Steve Schmidt, author Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Washington ...
11/5/2012 2:34 AM ET
A fresh insertion of leftist politics into prime time entertainment television. On Sunday night’s The Good Wife on CBS, which is set in Chicago, a judge strode into court and observed: “I
hope ...
11/4/2012 6:30 PM ET
When, ten minutes into the October 28 Meet the Press, guest panelist Carly Fiorina brought up Benghazi, host David Gregory cut her off, but promised: “We’ll get to Libya a little bit later.” The ...
11/4/2012 11:33 AM ET
Former Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief and Assistant Managing
Editor Evan Thomas saw an upside if Mitt Romney does manage to win the
presidency, but Democrats continue to hold the Senate. On ...
11/3/2012 4:48 PM ET
Chuck Lorre, executive producer of three sit-coms on CBS (The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly),
used the ends of two of his shows Thursday night to tease an online ...
11/2/2012 7:48 PM ET
ABC, CBS and NBC did their part Friday night to minimize the negative
impact to the Obama campaign from the rise in the unemployment rate from
7.8 to 7.9 percent in October. ABC anchor Diane ...
11/1/2012 6:56 PM ET
ABC’s World News on Thursday continued its week-plus
blackout of any of the new revelations about the Obama administration’s
dissembling on what occurred before and after the Benghazi ...
10/31/2012 8:35 AM ET
The leftist bias of the New York Times beautifully
encapsulated in seven words used about a week before two presidential
elections. Headline over Saturday’s editorial on the third quarter GDP ...
10/31/2012 1:01 AM ET
The leftist bias of the New York Times beautifully
encapsulated in seven words used about a week before two presidential
elections. Headline over Saturday’s editorial on the third quarter ...
10/28/2012 10:27 PM ET
Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume upbraided the press for its
lack of interest in pursuing the Obama administration’s misstatements
and dissembling on what they knew before and after ...
10/28/2012 8:43 AM ET
A mix of hatred and despair on display Friday night from a member of
Barack Obama’s core constituency: the Hollywood Left. On something
called John Fugelsang: So That Happened, which runs ...
