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).

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Brent Baker | March 20, 2023
MSNBC’s Joy Reid jumped to attack Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after Axios fired a reporter who showed his disgust for the DeSantis administration. “There is a bullying aspect and a lot of trolling,” she asserted of those who work for DeSantis.  The Tampa-based journalist, Ben Montgomery, lamented on Reid’s MSNBC show: “I feel like what Axios did to me has a chilling effect on the entire news…
Brent Baker | March 13, 2023
MSNBC on Friday featured a segment with Washington Post sports columnist Kevin Blackistone who, in a column titled “Baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis’s culture wars,” noted how some baseball teams in the 1940s moved spring training out of Florida because of the Jim Crow laws. Anchor Lindsey Reiser cited all the awful policies Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has enacted or favors, before…
Brent Baker | March 6, 2023
The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg on Thursday pounced on the usually liberal comedian Bill Maher who dared to criticize those on the left who want statutes of Abraham Lincoln removed. He charged woke advocates “love diversity except of ideas,” asking, “really, Lincoln isn’t good enough for you?” Goldberg asserted: “Well, that statue was not good enough. Because it showed a slave down at Lincoln’s…
Brent Baker | February 27, 2023
Apparently serious, Fran Drescher, head of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) union, announced during Sunday night’s SAG awards ceremony that the union has launched, with some other groups, “the biggest joint effort of stars and studios to save the planet since World War II.” That huge endeavor: “An honor system to eliminate single-use plastic on camera, behind the scenes and leverage star power to…
Brent Baker | February 20, 2023
African-American studies,” the crew of ABC’s The View on Thursday went on rants denouncing him as a “fascist” and claiming “he’s going to ban the alphabet.” Ana Navarro, who dubbed DeSantis “Ron DeSaster,” charged “what this is all about is fanning the flames of grievance, of white grievance.” She complained “he’s against A.P. He’s against DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion. He’s against ESG…
Brent Baker | February 13, 2023
On ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos eagerly used a new Washington Post story as an excuse to pivot from GOP concerns about President Joe Biden’s foreign financial entanglements with his son, Hunter,, to how Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushnr, have also benefitted financially from foreign ties.  Interviewing James Comer, the Republican who is Chair of the House Oversight Committee…
Brent Baker | February 6, 2023
Two days ahead of the State of the Union address where President Biden is expected to claim credit for a booming economy, veteran NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell lamented he’s not getting enough credit for that achievement. “He’s not getting credit for the economy, and should be,” she interjected on Meet the Press.  As guests raced to get in their final comments as the show drew to…
Brent Baker | January 30, 2023
On Sunday’s Face the Nation, U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy scolded host Margaret Brennan when she pressed him to explain why he’s given committee posts to Republican members who “denied the results of the 2020 election,” demanding: “Why are you elevating people who are denying reality like that?”   McCarthy countered: “If you want to hold Republicans to that equation, why don’t you also hold…
Brent Baker | January 23, 2023
Upset by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ decision to bar teaching of an advanced placement high school course on African-American history, which conservatives consider to serve up radical-left, anti-American material, MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Thursday launched into an attack on the potential republican presidential candidate as a fascist-loving racist.  “The law which led to the decision on the course…
Brent Baker | January 16, 2023
“I’m a journalist. I have to deal in facts,” Meet the Press host Chuck Todd lectured Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) when the Senator dared recount the misdeeds of Hunter Biden that the new Republican Congress plans to investigate. Todd jumped in to demand to know why Johnson was not equally outraged about Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. Johnson pointed out how the media have “suppressed” much of the…