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 | November 5, 2011
The media’s infatuation with the far-left “occupy” protesters is so uniformly recognized that it got some ridicule on the new episode, of Comedy Central’s animation series, South Park, carried this past Wednesday night,.On Friday, FNC’s The Five host Greg Gutfeld opened the program with a clip, which he set up: “On their latest episode, South Park took on the media’s beloved Occupy Wall Street…
Brent Baker | November 4, 2011
President Barack Obama did it again Thursday and FNC’s Bret Baier has again provided slow-mo play-by-play of Obama’s “talk to the hand” ill-timed wave which blocked the face of another world leader during a group photo-shoot. In September, at the UN in New York City, his victim was the President of Mongolia. At the G-20 in Cannes, France his hand went up in front of the face of India’s Prime…
Brent Baker | October 30, 2011
CBS’s Bob Schieffer unintentionally played the foil to Herman Cain on Sunday’s Face the Nation as Schieffer expressed his politically-correct displeasure with Cain’s “downright bizarre” Web video which briefly shows Cain’s chief of staff smoking, was flummoxed by Cain’s sense of humor (“You also said at one point that you might want to back that fence up with a moat and fill it with alligators.…
Brent Baker | October 30, 2011
From the end of this weekend’s Fox News Watch show, a comedy video created by the Jest.com humor site I saw the Romenesko site posted on Wednesday titled “Where Occupy Wall Street Headlines Come From.” FNC host Jon Scott asked: “Did you ever wonder how different news operations come up with the headlines for big stories? Well, the creative people at Jest.com give us their take on the process.”The…
Brent Baker | October 23, 2011
Tonight, from the end of FNC’s Special Report back on Wednesday, October 12, a comedy bit produced by ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live spoofing the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street protesters with the opportunity to sponsor a protester via the “International Wall Street Occupier Registry.” Afterward, host Bret Baier quips: “Capitalism at work.”The cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog with links to…
Brent Baker | October 22, 2011
Catching up with an admission from just after Tuesday’s Republican presidential candidate debate in Las Vegas, CNN’s Anderson Cooper lightheartedly conceded that when he confronted Herman Cain with his earlier criticism of the Occupy Wall Street protests, a criticism Cain reaffirmed to rousing audience applause, Cooper hadn’t intended it as a softball but as an embarrassing mis-cue from which he…
Brent Baker | October 15, 2011
Left-wing actor Sean Penn slimed the Tea Party as motivated by racism, charging on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight on Friday evening (October 14) that an impediment to President Obama’s success is “what I call the ‘Get the N-word out of the White House party,’ the Tea Party.” At a time when Herman Cain tops polls of Republican primary voters, Penn proceeded to allege, without citing any evidence, that…
Brent Baker | October 11, 2011
So enthused about promoting the far-left protests, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer on Monday night championed “the Occupy Wall Street movement” by ludicrously claiming that “as of tonight, it has spread to more than 250 American cities, more than a thousand countries -- every continent but Antarctica.” Protests against the wealthy in “thousands of countries,” including Cuba, China and every country in…
Brent Baker | October 9, 2011
Tonight (Sunday at 10 PM EDT/PDT, 9 PM CDT), ABC’s new Mad Men-inspired drama set in 1963, Pan Am, about New York City-based flight crews for Pan Am airlines, will have a plot revolving around President John Kennedy’s visit to Berlin.In the promo, run at the end of last week’s episode, a stewardess character excitedly exclaims: “Kennedy loves stewardesses!” Sound like a safe bet. The promo’s…
Brent Baker | October 9, 2011
It’s been a month, but tonight another entry in my semi-regular series of Saturday night humor postings for the MRC's NewsBusters blog drawn from the clips Bret Baier runs at the end of FNC’s Special Report which he and his staff usually select from video montages picked up off the late night comedy shows.Tonight, from this past week’s Tuesday night program, a brief comedy bit produced by ABC’s…