Brent Baker
VP of Research and Publications
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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 bioWashington Examiner's weekly "Mainstream Media Scream," with Baker's scream rating, are on NewsBusters as of January 2015. Read them here

Brent Baker | March 27, 2003
The full program for the Media Research Center’s 2003 DisHonors Awards gala: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporting of the Year, held on Thursday, March 27, 2003 at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, DC.
Brent Baker | January 17, 2002
“Nineteen days after the presidential election, Florida’s Republican Secretary of State [Katherine Harris] is about to announce the winner — as she sees it and she decrees it.... “The believed certification — as the Republican Secretary of State sees it — is coming just hours after a court ordered deadline for counties to submit their hand count and recount totals.... “She will certify — as she…
Brent Baker | January 17, 2002
A video Tribute to the Media for 9/11 coverage, preceded by introductory comments from Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell, at the MRC’s 2002 “DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2001.” Event held Thursday night, January 17, 2002, before an audience of more than 800 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington,…
Brent Baker | January 17, 2002
“Should five of our nation’s nine Supreme Court Justices be in prison? That’s the opinion of famed former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi. He says the justices who supported George W. Bush in the election dispute are almost treasonous white-collar criminals. He’ll explain why. Because all that is right now on Rivera Live.” “It is a scathing indictment of the high court of the United States, at least…
Brent Baker | January 17, 2002
The audience voting to pick the Quote of the Year at the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2001,” held Thursday night, January 17, 2002, before an audience of more than 800 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.   Cal Thomas announced the clear winner: Dan Rather insisting, on Fox News…
Brent Baker | January 17, 2002
CNN anchor Paula Zahn: “If Al Gore had gotten what he wanted, which was a statewide manual recount or a recount of those four specific counties, George Bush still would have won. So I wonder, and I’m going to put up on the screen now a paragraph from your book where you once said, ‘The wrong man was inaugurated on January 20th, 2001 and this is no small thing in our nation’s history.’ Do you…
Brent Baker | January 17, 2002
A compilation of Bryant Gumbel questions: “Can you deny that he distorted Mr. White’s record and basically engaged in what some would kindly call character assassination?” – CBS’s Bryant Gumbel to John Ashcroft adviser Charles Polk, on Missouri judge Ronnie White whom Ashcroft had opposed for appointment to a federal court, January 16, 2001 Early Show. “If he’s [Ashcroft] so much of an…
Brent Baker | January 17, 2002
Full presentation of the “The Sore Losers Award (for Refusing to Concede Bush’s Victory in Florida)” at the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2001,” held Thursday night, January 17, 2002. https://www.mrc.org/gala-dishonors-awards/2002
Brent Baker | January 17, 2002
Bill Maher, host of ABC’s Politically Incorrect: “I do think, if it turns out that this beautiful young girl [Chandra Levy] is gone, I think, and he [Condit] is responsible in some way, you have to look to Ken Starr for a little bit of guilt.” Larry King: “Why?” Maher: “Because, you know, Ken Starr made it so that you, in the old days, you had an affair with somebody, and you know, okay, you had…
Brent Baker | January 17, 2002
“And we can’t let Justice Thomas pass on this. There’s no opinion of his in here, he doesn’t ask questions in court. Does he do anything besides vote and rubber stamp Scalia?” – Bryant Gumbel to CBS legal analyst Jonathan Turley following the Bush vs. Gore Supreme Court decision, December 13, 2000 The Early Show. https://www.mrc.org/gala-dishonors-awards/2002