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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6/2/2013 5:26 PM ET
See no scandal, report no scandal. Jill Abramson, Executive Editor of the New York Times,
came down to DC on Sunday to defend President Obama on the scandals and
the economy, stressing the ...
6/2/2013 2:48 PM ET
Pivoting to the downside for President Obama of the swirling scandals, Meet the Press host David Gregory fretted over “a bigger issue that the President faces, which is where is his agenda left in ...
6/1/2013 3:52 PM ET
Though he had no idea what it was, the annual “Bush Center Warrior 100K”
mountain bike ride, which took place over the Memorial Day weekend,
upset Bill Maher. “I guess they walked or ran or ...
5/29/2013 7:58 AM ET
New on May 28: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews denounced Senator Ted Cruz as “a disaster,” calling him “the unsmiling contemptuous face of the wild, nasty hard-right fringe.”
5/28/2013 8:31 PM ET
Once again demonstrating the NBC Nightly News is the
broadcast arm of MSNBC, anchor Brian Williams – matching what has
animated MSNBC hosts – devoted a segment to former Senator Bob Dole ...
5/25/2013 9:21 PM ET
Not a syllable Friday or Saturday night on ABC, CBS or NBC about any of the several Obama scandals, but on Saturday night ABC’s World News trumpeted President Obama’s role as “consoler-in-chief.” ...
5/25/2013 2:14 PM ET
“Liberal media bias is an old complaint,” the Wall Street Journal’s
James Taranto noted in his “Best of the Web Today” column this past
Monday on responses to the Obama scandals, before ...
5/24/2013 7:57 AM ET
Already moving on from the IRS scandal? On Thursday night, only the CBS Evening News
of the broadcast network evening newscasts bothered to note how Lois
Lerner, the IRS official in charge of ...
5/21/2013 8:50 AM ET
Monday’s CBS Evening News took one break from Oklahoma
tornado coverage – to run a piece on how an IRS manager who recently
retired from the Cincinnati office, where 501 (c)(4) applications ...
5/15/2013 12:52 PM ET
This Friday, May 17, will be the final day for TimesWatch posts. The
Media Research Center will be consolidating products and, as a result,
TimesWatch posts and the TimesWatch Tracker will be ...
5/12/2013 3:40 PM ET
Asked on Sunday’s Reliable Sources if the wider media dismissed the Weekly Standard
story, by Stephen Hayes about the Benghazi talking points getting
altered to take out any references to ...
5/12/2013 9:28 AM ET
My alternate headline for this item: “NBC’s Today Show on
Benghazi: ‘There Are So Many Issues the Country Faces. This Is One of
Them.’” That dismissive attitude came from ABC News veteran Mark ...
5/7/2013 9:18 AM ET
Fox News Channel analyst and former anchor Brit Hume asserted Monday
night that for Benghazi “to become the scandal it surely deserves to be
will require another ingredient: Relentless news ...
5/6/2013 7:09 AM ET
NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday brought aboard another lefty whose far-left views are usually only heard on MSNBC, but Joy-Ann Reid, Managing Editor of TheGrio.com,
the NBC News site aimed at ...
5/5/2013 3:57 PM ET
Proof Sunday morning that Republicans can use their power to hold House
hearings to force media coverage of topics journalists have shown little
interest in probing. CBS's Face the Nation led ...
4/27/2013 5:41 PM ET
In a new low for David Letterman – on both a professional and comedic level – each night this past week he devoted a Late Show
“Stooge of the Night” segment to a Senator who dared to oppose the ...
4/15/2013 1:25 AM ET
NBC synergy in action. Saturday Night Live opens with a skit
hitting President Barack Obama from the left for celebrating picayune
progress on gun control and, the next morning, Meet the Press ...
4/8/2013 8:38 AM ET
Bill Maher just can’t resist denigrating those who choose to join our
military forces. Catching up with a comment from his Friday night show
on HBO, when discussing what motivates soldiers to ...
4/3/2013 8:43 AM ET
Does journalistic insistence on catapulting President Barack Obama into historic greatness and relevance know no bounds? CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley on Tuesday night insisted ...
3/21/2013 12:47 AM ET
FX’s The Americans.
Last week, the historic drama set in 1981, portrayed a successful KGB
effort to discredit a Polish priest, who is leading an anti-Soviet
liberation movement, by smearing ...
