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 | September 27, 2012
A video montage of the distinguished panel of 12 judges for the “DisHonors Awards” at the MRC’s 25th Anniversary Gala on September 27, 2012.
Brent Baker | September 27, 2012
A video compilation of the most obnoxious bias by Brian Williams over the Media Research Center’s first 25 years. Played as one of four nominees (Dan Rather, Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric) for the “Worst Reporter in the History of Man Award” contest decided by the audience at the MRC’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala.
Brent Baker | September 27, 2012
At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala, one of three nominees for “The Vast Right-Wing Knuckle-Draggers Award.”“The utter confusion in the Republican presidential nominating process results from two discernible facts. One: they hate. That’s the simplest explanation of the disastrous course of this selection…
Brent Baker | September 27, 2012
At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala, one of three nominees for “The Vast Right-Wing Knuckle-Draggers Award.”“I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I…
Brent Baker | September 27, 2012
At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala, one of three nominees for “The Vast Right-Wing Knuckle-Draggers Award.”“These seem to be appeals to the extreme white wing of the Republican Party. That is to say that there continues to be among many conservatives a real resentment against blacks....I think it is part of…
Brent Baker | September 27, 2012
A video compilation of the media’s worst campaign coverage bias over the Media Research Center’s first 25 years, as played to introduce “The Vast Right-Wing Knuckle-Draggers Award” at the MRC’s “DisHonors Awards” presented on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala.
Brent Baker | September 27, 2012
At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala, one of three nominees for “The Obamagasm Award.”“When you watch the President like that, I always feel he’s got so many pluses, doesn’t he? In a sense, he’s personable, he’s handsome, he can be funny. You know, abroad he has this great image for America. A lot of things…
Brent Baker | September 27, 2012
At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala, one of three nominees for “The Obamagasm Award.”“We thought we’d bring you up to date on those protesters, the Occupy Wall Street movement. As of tonight, it has spread to more than 250 American cities, more than a thousand countries — every continent but Antarctica.”—…
Brent Baker | September 27, 2012
At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala, one of three nominees for “The Obamagasm Award.”“This guy’s done everything right. He’s raised his family right. He’s fought his way all the way to the top of the Harvard Law Review, in a blind test becomes head of the Review, the top editor there. Everything he’s done is…
Brent Baker | September 27, 2012
A video compilation of the media’s worst “media hero worshipping” bias over the Media Research Center’s first 25 years, as played at the MRC’s “DisHonors Awards” presented on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala.