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 3, 2009
David Letterman asked guest Katie Couric about “this bonehead Rush Limbaugh.” He asserted Limbaugh's attire on Saturday at CPAC made him look “like an Eastern European gangster.”
Brent Baker | February 27, 2009
Today (2/27/09) the 5,000 edition of Wheel of Fortune will air around the nation – which reminded me (always looking for a hook to plug our upcoming “DisHonors Awards”) -- that just under two years ago Wheel host Pat Sajak took part in our 2007 event where he accepted, on behalf of Rosie O'Donnell, the “I’m Not a Political Genius But I Play One on TV Award.”
Brent Baker | February 16, 2009
Diane Sawyer effused 2/16/09 World News: “I want to show everybody at home, because there is the President, it's Super Bowl night, and he's serving cookies to congressional leadership.” The narration switched to an awed George Stephanopoulos: “These are just remarkable, Diane. We've never really seen anything like this before in real time.”
Brent Baker | February 16, 2009
At our March 18, 2004 gala http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor/04/welcome.asp , as MRC President L. Brent Bozell III made closing remarks he was interrupted by Donaldson, who bound on stage in mock anger, railing at Bozell and the MRC for attacking on the news media. Donaldson pledged, “During this campaign we will treat both sides equally: the compassionate, intelligent…
Brent Baker | February 11, 2009
Katie Couric giggled along with Nancy Pelosi while asking if she was “surprised how intimately involved” President Obama “is in the whole process?” And: "Can you tell us anything he said to you, like 'get cracking'?”
Brent Baker | February 10, 2009
In Terry Moran's interview with President Barack Obama, ABC's Moran lamented Obama “got no honeymoon” and bemoaned the new President had been “too nice” to Republicans.
Brent Baker | February 1, 2009
The L word on Showtime featured the “Unauthorized Abortion of W,” a sculpture of a woman's body with an exposed womb displaying George W. Bush's adult face with each of his hands holding onto a rocket labeled “U.S. Air Force.”
Brent Baker | January 27, 2009
Brian Williams expressed his pleasure at seeing so many people “that excited about our new chief executive after a line of what the ordinary voter would maybe describe as bad choices or choices of evils, for years, generations.”
Brent Baker | January 23, 2009
Sean Hannity debuted his “Media Mash” segment Friday night on his FNC show with NewsBusters Senior Editor Tim Graham as the guest expert to comment on a series of clips of the most sycophantic inaugural coverage
Brent Baker | January 20, 2009
Bill Weir delighted in wondering “can national pride make a freezing day feel warmer?” He decided it can since “never have so many people shivered so long with such joy” while “even the seagulls must have been awed...”