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
7/28/2012 1:20 AM ET
CBS and NBC on Friday night aired full stories on the very weak 1.5
percent second quarter GDP rate, down from an anemic two percent in the
first quarter, yet – incredibly – ABC’s World News, ...
7/12/2012 2:45 AM ET
Showing a renewed concern for the interests of taxpayers, CBS put “Cost to Taxpayers” on screen Wednesday night as CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley worried not about the cost of ObamaCare, but ...
7/9/2012 10:54 PM ET
$150 billion. That’s “the cost to taxpayers” for President Barack
Obama’s proposal to not increase the income tax rate for those earning
less than $250,000, White House correspondent Norah ...
7/2/2012 2:32 AM ET
How cozy. Former Democratic operative turned television news host
George Stephanopoulos used his ABC News platform on Sunday to celebrate,
with Vicki Reggie Kennedy, ObamaCare’s Supreme ...
6/27/2012 7:55 AM ET
Some creative spin in favor of President Barack Obama from Chuck Todd on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News. Recounting the results of a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll which puts Obama ahead of ...
6/26/2012 12:06 AM ET
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the law requiring Arizona law
enforcement to check the immigration status of those they suspect are
illegal is “very disappointing and very dangerous,” ...
6/25/2012 7:23 AM ET
Unintentionally defining irony, in the midst of trying to rationalize
news media disinterest in the “Fast & Furious” scandal by
maintaining “it’s not a political scandal” but “a scandal of ...
6/21/2012 8:34 AM ET
Writer/producer Aaron Sorkin, whose new drama, Newsroom, about a cable news anchor -- which debuts this Sunday night on HBO -- proved in a USA Today piece he lives in a fantasy world. First, he ...
6/11/2012 7:50 AM ET
Last week, for the third year in a row, the Television Critics Association
– which “represents more than 200 journalists writing about television
for print and online outlets in the United ...
5/29/2012 10:30 AM ET
Accurate, but not true. It took 23 years, but on Sunday morning’s Face the Nation,
Bob Schieffer contended “everything” in his 1989 book, which provided a
derogatory look from the left at the ...
5/25/2012 1:39 AM ET
In February of 2008, NewsBusters first highlighted MSNBC’s Chris
Matthews oozing “I felt this thrill going up my leg” while listening to a
speech by Barack Obama. Conservatives reminding ...
5/24/2012 7:05 AM ET
NBC anchor Brian Williams on Wednesday night ridiculed Mitt Romney’s
quest to reduce the unemployment rate to six percent by 2016, a level
enjoyed fewer than four years ago. "Back when Newt ...
5/20/2012 10:12 PM ET
The Sunday interview show hosts all reacted with disbelief toward
House Speaker John Boehner’s pledge to demand spending cuts equal to the
debt ceiling increase, with CBS’s Bob Schieffer ...
5/18/2012 8:01 AM ET
Reacting to Mitt Romney’s discomfort toward proposed independent
expenditure ads reminding Americans of President Obama’s connections to
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, on FNC Thursday night Charles ...
5/16/2012 10:26 AM ET
In a particularly sleazy allegation, David Letterman on Tuesday night
alleged former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick
Cheney “went soft” on finding Osama bin Laden ...
5/15/2012 2:20 AM ET
What is a ludicrous answer for $800? The response from Chris Matthews when a naive Alex Trebek asked him on Jeopardy!:
“Do you approach it from the point of view of I have an opinion about
the ...
5/11/2012 8:32 AM ET
The Washington press corps always love it when establishment
Republicans scold conservatives for trying to “purify” the party, and Time magazine’s
Michael Scherer did not disappoint. “Indiana ...
5/7/2012 12:12 AM ET
CBS’s Bob Schieffer, who in February
asked New Jersey Governor Chris Christie whether the Republican
presidential candidates “are pushing your party too far to the right to
make the ...
4/30/2012 8:14 AM ET
Catching up with Bryant Gumbel from a couple of weeks ago, on the April edition of his Real Sports
show on HBO, the NBC News and CBS News veteran came to the defense of
Miami Marlins ...
4/25/2012 8:46 AM ET
“It's hard to make fun of Obama in general because he’s a cool character,” ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, the “headliner” for this Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, told ...
