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
9/8/2012 3:04 PM ET
“Writers have been bowing to the ‘fact checkers’ as submissively as Barack Obama upon meeting some anti-American dictator,” the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto quipped in a devastating ...
9/6/2012 8:59 PM ET
Last week in Tampa, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley and NBC Nightly News
anchor Brian Williams, both hit Ann Romney with a pointed political
contention from the left, but tonight ...
9/5/2012 8:13 PM ET
“You don’t want to put delegates in a position where they’re booing God and Jerusalem, especially on videotape,” the Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes observed on FNC’s Special Report
in citing a ...
9/4/2012 8:45 PM ET
CNN’s Brianna Keilar cued up Sandra Fluke, Obama’s poster girl for
“free” contraception and forcing religious institutions to violate their
beliefs, to tar Mitt Romney and all Republicans with ...
9/3/2012 9:44 PM ET
Playing to a crowd of Democrats in Charlotte cheering on Democratic
operative Chris Matthews as he hosted his MSNBC program, Howard Fineman
blurted “I survived Tampa and am now glad to be ...
9/2/2012 9:46 PM ET
“I’m frankly, fed up, with the one-sided bias,” a frustrated Newt Gingrich asserted on Sunday’s Meet the Press, citing two blatant examples. First: “Where is the outrage over overt, deliberate ...
8/30/2012 8:45 PM ET
NBC News demonstrated again Thursday night it has become little more
than the more-watched broadcast arm of MSNBC, advancing the same
left-wing attacks on conservatives as first trotted out on ...
8/29/2012 7:54 PM ET
NBC anchor Brian Williams reprimanded Ann Romney for saying “I believe
in my heart that Mitt is going to save America,” suggesting it would
have been incendiary if Michelle Obama had made ...
8/29/2012 7:53 AM ET
“A lot of women look at the Republican platform on abortion, contraception, a number of issues,” CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley told Ann Romney, “and ask the question whether Republicans ...
8/28/2012 2:21 AM ET
Defending President Obama to guest Dennis Miller, Jay Leno admired Obama for how “he has compassion for regular people” that’s “missing” from the Republican Party which is carrying out “this sort ...
8/28/2012 2:11 AM ET
“Some Republicans wonder whether Romney is too moderate for the increasingly conservative party,” CBS Evening News
anchor Scott Pelley refreshingly asked Monday night in veering from the
media ...
8/26/2012 9:50 PM ET
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos opened his Sunday show: “Good morning and welcome to This Week. Storms brewing. The GOP convention threatened by Tropical Storm Isaac and that political hurricane from ...
8/26/2012 9:38 PM ET
Last week when President Barack Obama raised the old tale of how Mitt Romney once put his dog in a car top carrier, the NBC Nightly News gave a sentence to how Obama “took a dig at Romney” and ...
8/14/2012 7:37 AM ET
Chuck Todd has chutzpah. Jake Tapper has some integrity. For decades,
journalists have aided liberals by mischaracterizing proposed slight
reductions in the rate of spending hikes on a program ...
8/13/2012 7:40 AM ET
Advancing a false narrative about how the wealthy are paying a lower tax rate than the middle class, CBS Bob Schieffer used his 60 Minutes
session with the Republican ticket to push Mitt Romney ...
8/9/2012 8:16 AM ET
“On our broadcast tonight,” Brian Williams teased his lead story Wednesday night, “extreme heat, but more than that: the official confirmation that came today that it has never been this hot in ...
8/5/2012 9:04 PM ET
“Harry Reid is disgrace. But you expect this from Harry Reid,” The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes zinged on FNC’s Special Report
Friday night before turning his ire on a certain Washington, ...
8/2/2012 9:28 AM ET
“A conservative Republican was beaten by an even more conservative Tea Party candidate,” CBS Evening News anchor
Scott Pelley announced Wednesday night in reporting Ted Cruz’s victory
in ...
7/30/2012 10:47 PM ET
Journalists are quite eager to undermine Mitt Romney’s trip. “A new diplomatic dust-up,”
CBS anchor Scott Pelley teased Monday night, citing how “Mitt Romney in
the Middle East says culture ...
7/30/2012 12:48 AM ET
CBS couldn't resist Newsweek's Romney “Wimp Factor” cover. “I just got a copy of the Newsweek
cover that’s going to be hitting the newsstands tomorrow that calls you
a ‘wimp,’” reporter Jan ...
