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
10/26/2012 9:09 AM ET
Even after all the e-mails and information has come out over the past
few weeks proving dissembling by President Obama himself and other
administration officials on what they knew about the ...
10/23/2012 7:59 AM ET
“The high point of that debate for Romney is when he devastatingly
leveled the charge of Obama going around the world on ‘an apology
tour,’” Charles Krauthammer asserted on the Fox News ...
10/22/2012 1:44 PM ET
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman, who three weeks ago derided Mitt Romney
for how he "acts...as if he learned his foreign policy at the
International House of Pancakes," ...
10/21/2012 3:12 PM ET
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman, who three weeks ago derided Mitt Romney for how he “acts...as if he learned his foreign policy at the International House of Pancakes,” on ...
10/18/2012 8:33 AM ET
A not so undecided “undecided voter.” At 10:12 AM EDT Wednesday on CNN,
faux “undecided voter” Susan Katz, who had asked Mitt Romney at the
debate the night before how he’s different from ...
10/14/2012 2:45 PM ET
With New York Times political reporter Jeff Zeleny sitting next to her on the Fox News Sunday set, radio host Laura Ingraham demanded: “I would hope that the New York Times,
as they camped ...
10/14/2012 8:20 AM ET
A week ago Sunday morning, St. Louis Post-Dispatch readers awoke to the newspaper’s presidential endorsement editorial, “Obama for president: A second term for a serious man.” Yet it was very hard ...
10/13/2012 3:49 PM ET
Bill Maher likes to deride conservatives for living “inside a bubble”
where they consume news from only those with whom they agree and so are
unaware of the “facts,” but he could just as well ...
10/11/2012 6:58 AM ET
ABC’s Diane Sawyer spent a solid four minutes of her interview with
President Barack Obama, as excerpted at the top of Wednesday’s World News,
channeling liberal angst over Obama’s debate ...
10/8/2012 7:10 AM ET
Liberals, Peggy Noonan noted on Sunday’s This Week
roundtable, want Mitt Romney “to be more specific so that you can rouse
people against” budget cuts to any program. Indeed, earlier in the ...
9/30/2012 4:18 PM ET
For the second week in a row, on Sunday morning CBS’s Bob Schiefer
identified Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s problem as
not that’s he’s been too timid in laying out an ...
9/28/2012 3:03 AM ET
MRC “25th Anniversary Gala and DisHonors Awards,” with videos of the entire event, nominee videos and archival compilations. Plus, “William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence” and the audience ...
9/24/2012 12:45 AM ET
Demonstrating that he would have made the same news judgments hostile to
Mitt Romney as those who succeeded him at ABC News, in an address
Thursday night to students at Quinnipiac University, ...
9/22/2012 1:26 PM ET
Repeating a common mythology that a person’s federal income tax rate
equals the effective tax rate they actually pay after deductions, ABC’s
Jonathan Karl on Friday night forwarded the ...
9/20/2012 12:06 AM ET
Mitt Romney on Wednesday put into play newly uncovered video of Barack
Obama in 1998 advocating redistribution of wealth, but of the broadcast
network evening newscasts, only the NBC Nightly ...
9/19/2012 12:22 AM ET
NBC and CBS felt compelled Tuesday night to fact check Mitt Romney’s
assertion “47 percent of Americans pay no income tax” and both had to
acknowledge his accuracy, but then tried to undermine ...
9/17/2012 8:46 PM ET
Once again serving as the broadcast arm of MSNBC, Monday’s NBC Nightly News
devoted a full segment to the supposed outrage over what Mitt Romney
said in a surreptitiously-recorded video ...
9/15/2012 3:03 PM ET
“Listen for it,” CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley urged viewers Friday night in trumpeting what he hailed as “a
remarkable moment of candor” from President Barack Obama “when he told
us ...
9/12/2012 10:51 PM ET
Mitt Romney was correct in his critique of President Barack Obama’s “Arab Spring” policies but, on the timing, The Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes cautioned on FNC’s Special Report, Romney should ...
9/9/2012 5:59 PM ET
David Gregory teased Sunday's Meet the Press by highlighting a
clip of himself pushing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to
upset conservatives in getting a budget deal, ...
