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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4/2/2012 4:05 AM ET
Reeling from the possibility the Supreme Court might undermine
ObamaCare, two members in good standing of the liberal media elite, both
with the New York Times, took to the Sunday shows to ...
3/25/2012 9:50 PM ET
Filling in for Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, Norah
O’Donnell hit Republican Congressman Paul Ryan from the left, using
White House talking points to contend his budget plan helps the rich ...
3/19/2012 9:52 AM ET
If only President Barack Obama were a Republican, then the public would
realize he has been “a very successful” President, but Democrats,
actor/activist George Clooney fretted, “are just ...
3/18/2012 11:05 PM ET
Another example of how out of touch the Washington press corps are with what is common knowledge amongst conservatives. On Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer was flummoxed by Mitt Romney’s ...
3/16/2012 10:04 AM ET
Obama administration officials in the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday they would pull all of Medicaid’s funding
for Texas’ Women’s Health Program because the state ...
3/11/2012 11:55 PM ET
Mitt Romney can’t close the deal with Republican primary voters because
too many don’t trust that he’s a real conservative, but on Sunday’s This Week,
host George Stephanopoulos pressured ...
3/6/2012 2:42 AM ET
ABC on Monday night rebuked the Republican presidential field for not
adequately condemning Rush Limbaugh for his “slut” characterization of
Sandra Fluke, for which he apologized on his Monday ...
3/5/2012 12:24 AM ET
No love on the Sunday morning television talk shows for Rush Limbaugh,
not even a mild defense as the unifying theme was disappointment in Mitt
Romney for not denouncing the leading national ...
3/2/2012 10:04 AM ET
Serving as the arm of MSNBC which actually has a significant audience, Thursday’s NBC Nightly News promoted a left-wing effort to impugn and silence Rush Limbaugh. “A firestorm of outrage from ...
3/1/2012 2:51 PM ET
About three years ago, Andrew Breitbart, who sadly passed away suddenly
this morning in Los Angeles, joined the Media Research Center at our 2009 Gala, featuring the annual “DisHonors Awards,” ...
2/27/2012 9:36 AM ET
CBS’s Bob Schieffer, on Sunday morning’s Face the Nation,
pressed Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie over how
Republicans have moved “too far to the right” to win before cuing up ...
2/20/2012 3:13 AM ET
Occupy Wall Street earned a shout-out Sunday night on a CBS drama, the
kind of Hollywood affirmation the Tea Party could never dream of
receiving. “Before we begin,” a judge announced in a ...
2/19/2012 6:46 PM ET
“GOP says HHS mandate is about liberty, not contraception. Dems say
it’s about contraception, not liberty. Media accept and amplify
Democratic framing.” So the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes ...
2/16/2012 10:07 PM ET
“Did President Obama save General Motors?” CBS’s Dean Reynolds asked General Motors Chairman and CEO Daniel Akerson as both sat inside a GM plant. On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, Akerson ...
2/15/2012 9:36 PM ET
Previewing the Michigan primary, ABC’s David Muir found three Chrysler workers to boast of how the Obama administration’s auto bailout “worked” and “it would have been devastating” if Mitt Romney ...
2/14/2012 1:15 PM ET
The prospect of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee
in 2008 was “pretty terrifying” to actress Julianne Moore, who plays
Palin in HBO’s upcoming Game Change movie about the ...
2/13/2012 1:12 AM ET
“I was struck looking at this,” Washington Post columnist and former foreign editor David Ignatius expressed on ABC’s This Week in admiring how Barack Obama on Friday adjusted the contraception ...
2/13/2012 12:54 AM ET
The downward slide of media credibility continues. A Pew survey released a few days ago found 67 percent of Americans see “a great deal” or “fair amount” of “political bias” in the news media, ...
2/12/2012 11:23 PM ET
Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Zanny Minton Beddoes, the economics editor for the Economist magazine, expressed dread that the possibility Rick Santorum could win the Republican ...
2/9/2012 6:29 PM ET
Shortly before noon Thursday, live from the Conservative Political
Action Conference (CPAC), CNN political reporter Peter Hamby described
the gathering as a “conservative petri dish” to ...
