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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11/5/2012 3:34 AM ET
A fresh insertion of leftist politics into prime time entertainment television. On Sunday night’s The Good Wife on CBS, which is set in Chicago, a judge strode into court and observed: “I
hope ...
11/4/2012 7:30 PM ET
When, ten minutes into the October 28 Meet the Press, guest panelist Carly Fiorina brought up Benghazi, host David Gregory cut her off, but promised: “We’ll get to Libya a little bit later.” The ...
11/4/2012 12:33 PM ET
Former Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief and Assistant Managing
Editor Evan Thomas saw an upside if Mitt Romney does manage to win the
presidency, but Democrats continue to hold the Senate. On ...
11/3/2012 5:48 PM ET
Chuck Lorre, executive producer of three sit-coms on CBS (The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly),
used the ends of two of his shows Thursday night to tease an online ...
11/2/2012 8:48 PM ET
ABC, CBS and NBC did their part Friday night to minimize the negative
impact to the Obama campaign from the rise in the unemployment rate from
7.8 to 7.9 percent in October. ABC anchor Diane ...
11/1/2012 7:56 PM ET
ABC’s World News on Thursday continued its week-plus
blackout of any of the new revelations about the Obama administration’s
dissembling on what occurred before and after the Benghazi ...
10/31/2012 9:35 AM ET
The leftist bias of the New York Times beautifully
encapsulated in seven words used about a week before two presidential
elections. Headline over Saturday’s editorial on the third quarter GDP ...
10/31/2012 2:01 AM ET
The leftist bias of the New York Times beautifully
encapsulated in seven words used about a week before two presidential
elections. Headline over Saturday’s editorial on the third quarter ...
10/28/2012 11:27 PM ET
Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume upbraided the press for its
lack of interest in pursuing the Obama administration’s misstatements
and dissembling on what they knew before and after ...
10/28/2012 9:43 AM ET
A mix of hatred and despair on display Friday night from a member of
Barack Obama’s core constituency: the Hollywood Left. On something
called John Fugelsang: So That Happened, which runs ...
10/26/2012 10:09 AM ET
Even after all the e-mails and information has come out over the past
few weeks proving dissembling by President Obama himself and other
administration officials on what they knew about the ...
10/23/2012 8:59 AM ET
“The high point of that debate for Romney is when he devastatingly
leveled the charge of Obama going around the world on ‘an apology
tour,’” Charles Krauthammer asserted on the Fox News ...
10/22/2012 2:44 PM ET
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman, who three weeks ago derided Mitt Romney
for how he "acts...as if he learned his foreign policy at the
International House of Pancakes," ...
10/21/2012 4:12 PM ET
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman, who three weeks ago derided Mitt Romney for how he “acts...as if he learned his foreign policy at the International House of Pancakes,” on ...
10/18/2012 9:33 AM ET
A not so undecided “undecided voter.” At 10:12 AM EDT Wednesday on CNN,
faux “undecided voter” Susan Katz, who had asked Mitt Romney at the
debate the night before how he’s different from ...
10/14/2012 3:45 PM ET
With New York Times political reporter Jeff Zeleny sitting next to her on the Fox News Sunday set, radio host Laura Ingraham demanded: “I would hope that the New York Times,
as they camped ...
10/14/2012 9:20 AM ET
A week ago Sunday morning, St. Louis Post-Dispatch readers awoke to the newspaper’s presidential endorsement editorial, “Obama for president: A second term for a serious man.” Yet it was very hard ...
10/13/2012 4:49 PM ET
Bill Maher likes to deride conservatives for living “inside a bubble”
where they consume news from only those with whom they agree and so are
unaware of the “facts,” but he could just as well ...
10/11/2012 7:58 AM ET
ABC’s Diane Sawyer spent a solid four minutes of her interview with
President Barack Obama, as excerpted at the top of Wednesday’s World News,
channeling liberal angst over Obama’s debate ...
10/8/2012 8:10 AM ET
Liberals, Peggy Noonan noted on Sunday’s This Week
roundtable, want Mitt Romney “to be more specific so that you can rouse
people against” budget cuts to any program. Indeed, earlier in the ...
