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 | December 21, 2020
On Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd referred to a New York Times editorial he characterized as calling for “a truth and reconciliation commission” to address the supposed misdeeds of Trump and administration officials, yearning: “Is that something our current politics could allow to happen?”  >> This video clipped to illustrate Paul Bedard's December 21 Liberal Media Scream for the…
Brent Baker | December 21, 2020
On Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd referred to a New York Times editorial he characterized as calling for “a truth and reconciliation commission” to address the supposed misdeeds of Trump and administration officials, yearning: “Is that something our current politics could allow to happen?”  >> This video clipped to illustrate Paul Bedard's December 21 Liberal Media Scream for the…
Brent Baker | December 14, 2020
Keying off a protest sign he thought reflected disregard for the impact of the coronavirus, MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch denounced a significant portion of the citizenry, what he characterized as “the ungreatest generation,” suggesting “maybe there are 50 million jerks in this country.” He piled on, declaring: “Maybe there’s a chunk of us that really suck as human beings. Maybe that’s a…
Brent Baker | December 7, 2020
Going racial on Friday night, CNN White House correspondent John Harwood asserted there’s a chance Senate Republicans will cooperate with incoming President Joe Biden since, “first of all, Joe Biden is a white man” while “Barack Obama’s race played a role in the intensity of the grassroots and the opposition in Washington to what he was trying to do.” After Harwood maintained that “Joe Biden is…
Brent Baker | November 30, 2020
“Like a modern analog to the silence of Republican congressional leaders during the rampages of Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s,” CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein charged on CNN on Sunday night, “history will have no trouble finding a parallel between Mitch McConnell’s attempt to kind of look the other way and what so many Republican leaders did until Joseph Welch said, ‘at long last,…
Brent Baker | November 23, 2020
George Stephanopoulos on Sunday advanced the liberal quest to further politicize political differences by holding Trump administration officials “accountable” for “wrongdoing.” He pressed incoming White House chief-of-staff Ron Klain about “criminality” during Trump’s years. Stephanopoulos noted that President-elect Biden “has expressed a preference that he doesn’t want his presidency consumed by…
Brent Baker | November 16, 2020
Retired ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson charged on CNN on Sunday that Trump’s “enablers,” including Fox News, Newsmax and Rush Limbaugh, have “blood on their hands” for how they have talked about COVID-19. “If there’s blood on the president’s hands,” Donaldson asserted, “because of his inattention” and blocking information from scientists, “what about the blood on the hands of the enablers…
Brent Baker | November 9, 2020
On Sunday, CNN’s Brian Stelter affirmatively quoted from President-elect Biden’s victory speech (“It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again”), asking: “Is it naive to think that cooler heads will really prevail?” Yet, for four years Stelter has overseen a CNN program that showed no respect for President Trump. Guests and the…
Brent Baker | November 2, 2020
Friday’s NBC Nightly News devoted a story to advancing the liberal narrative that efforts to ensure fair voting procedures are little more than racist moves to suppress the black vote. Reporter Cynthia McFadden tied the current situation to the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, focusing her story on the views of Reverend James Lawson who charged a decision by Texas Governor Greg Abbott “…
Brent Baker | October 26, 2020
Reacting to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ comment on Sunday that “we’re not going to control the pandemic” and are counting on an upcoming vaccine, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough charged that Meadows is “willing to let people die because that’s what Donald Trump wants him to say” and he “doesn’t care if you live or die.”  >> This video clipped to illustrate Paul Bedard's October 26…