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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2/6/2012 9:38 PM ET
NBC Nightly News on Monday lifted its two-plus week blackout of the Obama administration's decision to force religious institutions, such as Catholic hospitals and charities, to provide birth ...
2/6/2012 10:04 AM ET
The broadcast network evening and morning newscast blackout, of the Obama administration plan to force health insurance offered by Catholic charities and hospitals to cover sterilization, ...
1/30/2012 8:07 AM ET
Actor/left-wing activist Alec Baldwin, who on Sunday night won a Screen Actors Guild Award (best actor in a comedy series) for his role on NBC's 30 Rock, last week identified the "greatest single ...
1/26/2012 9:31 PM ET
A question we've never posed and likely no one outside of CBS News has ever considered: "We wondered what Bob Schieffer thinks of all of this?" Yet that's how CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley ...
1/26/2012 9:46 AM ET
"The secretary speaks," ABC fill-in anchor David Muir excitedly teased at the top of Wednesday's World News, "billionaire investor Warren Buffett and his secretary, who pays a much-higher tax rate ...
1/25/2012 8:43 AM ET
After President Barack Obama finished his State of the Union address, on NBC Andrea Mitchell set to work to convince viewers of how he had discredited Mitt Romney's campaign trail criticisms of ...
1/24/2012 9:30 PM ET
Hours before President Barack Obama's third State of the Union address in which he will push higher tax rates on the wealthiest under the guise of "fairness," pivoting off the poster woman for ...
1/22/2012 11:55 PM ET
Given his high unfavorable rating, Newt Gingrich "cannot win a national election," MSNBC's very liberal host Lawrence O'Donnell insisted, "it's impossible." O'Donnell's assessment, however, is ...
1/22/2012 10:49 PM ET
To Bill Maher's delight, Bill Moyers charged "the delusional fringe has come in from the margin and runs" the Republican Party before he alleged Newt Gingrich is "playing the race card" and so, he ...
1/18/2012 8:10 AM ET
Diane Sawyer remains enthralled with the far-left "Occupy" protesters. Last October she championed "the Occupy Wall Street movement" by ludicrously claiming "it has spread to more than 250 ...
1/16/2012 11:08 PM ET
"With Huntsman gone," ABC's Jonathan Karl despaired Monday night, "the field of Republican candidates has lost the only candidate who favored civil unions for gay couples and said he was concerned ...
1/16/2012 9:17 AM ET
CBS's Bob Schieffer decided his viewers needed a special warning about how far out of the mainstream an upcoming guest dwells, plugging at the top of Sunday's Face the Nation how he'd have as ...
1/13/2012 12:22 PM ET
Another bit of evidence emerged Thursday about how deeply ingrained anti-conservative hatred is inside America's newspapers, even amongst those who don't cover politics.
John Kelly, a Washington ...
1/10/2012 8:48 PM ET
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 ...
1/9/2012 9:06 AM ET
Sad news came Sunday that Tony Blankley, the long-time leading conservative thinker, author and columnist, who served House Speaker Newt Gingrich and later ran the editorial pages for the ...
1/9/2012 8:17 AM ET
In pointing out how Barack Obama only won in 2008 by a slim margin, so this year's Republican nominee doesn't have to win over all that many Americans, ABC's Jake Tapper on Sunday morning listed ...
1/6/2012 12:42 PM ET
An hour before CNN screamed "Breaking News" Thursday night over the Boston Globe's endorsement of Jon Huntsman (basically for not being "pushed" to the right like Mitt Romney), the CBS Evening ...
1/5/2012 12:41 AM ET
Showing how no left-wing effort to raise taxes is too silly or embarrassing for ABC News to embrace, World News on Wednesday night jumped to promote a Web video, created by a group founded by a ...
1/3/2012 8:54 AM ET
The fourth runners-up quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." In addition to discussions on numerous talk radio shows ...
1/3/2012 8:26 AM ET
In a series of reports Monday night on how Republican presidential contenders plan to reduce the deficit, Dean Reynolds pleaded to Newt Gingrich: "Absolutely no tax increases?" He noted "critics ...
