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 | February 4, 2012
Not everybody appreciates live local TV reporting. When an unusual snowstorm hit Seattle a few weeks ago, the local NBC affiliate sent a reporter to cover people sledding on city streets. And, as caught by ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, some hilarity ensued in the reaction of one displeased woman holding an inner tube. “Sometimes when covering the danger of sledding and cars on slick roads,” FNC’s Bret…
Brent Baker | February 4, 2012
In a movie opening next week, left-wing activist Woody Harrelson plays a dirty cop in 1999 Los Angeles whose character impugns the Founding Fathers as “all slave-owners” and warns that if he is fired “I’ll have my own show on Fox News inside one week.” “I am not a racist,” he declares in a clip from Rampart played on Thursday’s Late Show, arguing: “Now, you want to be mad at someone, try J. Edgar…
Brent Baker | January 31, 2012
Bob Schieffer on the Thursday, January 26, 2012 CBS Evening News, re Arizona Governor Jan Brewer confronting President Obama:“This is just another sign of the growing incivility and really vulgarity of our modern American politics in campaigns...I can never recall a president stepping off Air Force One, which is itself a symbol of the presidency in American democracy, and being subjected to such…
Brent Baker | January 30, 2012
“Outside of children and marriage and so on,” CNN’s Piers Morgan asked Baldwin, “what has been the single greatest moment of your life, the moment that if I could relive it for you right now, you would ask to relive it?” Baldwin recalled how he “traveled around” Massachusetts in 1994 to campaign for Kennedy and “Teddy Kennedy called me. And he said I want you to know that if I win this race, you…
Brent Baker | January 29, 2012
Playing off the “best picture” nominated motion picture, The Artist, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night created its own version of the black and white silent movie – but with a twist, using video clips from NBC’s Republican presidential debate of the night before.FNC ended Thursday’s Special Report with the pretty inventive video created by Kimmel’s staff. Bret Baier set it up by suggesting…
Brent Baker | January 27, 2012
Bret Baier, on the January 27, 2012 Special Report on FNC: "Now fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine. "Monday correspondent Shannon Bream covered the annual March for Life rally that saw tens of thousands of pro-life supporters, along with some pro-choice demonstrators, descend on the nation's capital. However, if you were watching the big three broadcast networks, you wouldn't have heard…
Brent Baker | January 22, 2012
Newt Gingrich wouldn’t have won the South Carolina primary if not for two journalists who served as his perfect foil at two debates in the days before Saturday’s contest, Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer contended Saturday evening (January 21, 2012) on FNC.“I was expecting a check,” quipped Williams who had challenged Gingrich Monday night about comments “intended to belittle the poor and…
Brent Baker | January 21, 2012
Bill Moyers returned this month to PBS stations to once again peddle his far-left hatred of conservatives. On Friday night he took to HBO to discredit the Republican presidential field with the first refuge of liberals unable to sustain an argument: racial smears. To Bill Maher’s delight, Moyers charged “the delusional fringe has come in from the margin and runs” the Republican Party before he…
Brent Baker | January 12, 2012
On Thursday's Hardball, Chris Matthews preposterously insisted that Barack Obama added "only 13" people to the federal workforce in 2009 and that the total number of individuals working for the U.S. government (as of 2010) was 4,443.  [UPDATE, 8:55 PM EST: Two hours later, in the otherwise identical 7 PM EST re-play, MSNBC inserted a new graphic and a new audio overlay in which Matthews…
Brent Baker | January 10, 2012
ABC on Tuesday night decided to showcase one guy yelling at Mitt Romney, as if it proved how media-liberal distortions of Mitt Romney’s “I like to fire people” remark will surely hurt him and follow him to South Carolina. Reporter David Muir showed video of Romney, in the middle of a crowd, holding a baby. “But if you rewind the tape and play up the sound,” Muir explained from Manchester in…