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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1/19/2013 11:28 AM ET
All three broadcast network evening newscasts on Friday night ran short
items on the federal corruption indictments against the bumbling former
Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, but skipped his ...
1/13/2013 4:21 PM ET
Reflecting the typical Washington definition of a budget “cut” – in
which a slight reduction in a projected increase is a “cut” and a
measurable decrease in the rate of growth is a “draconian” ...
1/8/2013 9:49 AM ET
Monday night, viewers of CBS-owned Showtime were treated to the ninth of ten installments of Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, which has attacked U.S. leaders – from FDR to ...
1/7/2013 9:46 AM ET
Sounds like a personal vendetta ahead of genuine regret. CBS Late Show
host David Letterman admitted to Oprah Winfrey, in an interview first
aired Sunday night, that he backtracked after ...
1/6/2013 4:25 PM ET
Getting reactions to the “fiscal cliff” deal/postponement from Alan
Simpson and Erskine Bowles – they of the much-cited “Simpson-Bowles
Commission” – Meet the Press host David Gregory ...
1/1/2013 6:46 PM ET
“Every year a conservative watchdog organization, the Media Research Center, names the worst reporters of the year,” Fox NewsWatch host Jon Scott announced, ending Saturday afternoon’s show with ...
12/30/2012 9:09 PM ET
Time magazine’s Joe Klein can’t get his basic biographic facts straight, but he’s sure the “fiscal cliff” impasse should
be blamed on Grover Norquist on Rush Limbaugh for leading a ...
12/28/2012 1:12 AM ET
The second runners-up quotes in the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2012: The Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.” As announced in a CyberAlert Special last
week, the ...
12/27/2012 2:48 PM ET
The first runners-up quotes in the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2012: The Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.” As announced in a CyberAlert Special
last week, the ...
12/27/2012 12:14 PM ET
ABC News had to wait two weeks to get on air Barbara Walters’ interview
with the Obamas -- and then the network’s evening newscast decided to
focus on her asking Barack and Michelle Obama ...
12/26/2012 10:47 AM ET
The winning quotes in the MRC’ “Best Notable Quotables of 2012: The Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.” As announced in a CyberAlert Special last
Tuesday, the awards ...
12/20/2012 10:33 AM ET
ABC’s Diane Sawyer described Robert Bork, who passed away Wednesday at
age 85, as “an icon to conservatives” and NBC anchor Brian Williams
called him a “conservative icon,” but CBS Evening ...
12/19/2012 10:23 AM ET
[UPDATE, Dec 19: On Tuesday morning, ABC’s Good Morning America spiked the news of Scott’s appointment, yet had time for far more frivolous matters, while CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today ...
12/2/2012 1:58 PM ET
In a colorful demonstration of the Washington press corps’ disdain for Grover Norquist and his anti-tax pledge, on Sunday’s This Week, a flustered ABC News/NPR veteran Cokie Roberts blurted out: ...
11/29/2012 9:53 PM ET
Demonstrating once more how the NBC Nightly News has become the
big audience outlet for MSNBC’s left-wing angst, Brian Williams
couldn’t even keep such silliness out of what should have been a ...
11/26/2012 9:38 PM ET
ABC anchor Diane Sawyer and correspondent Jonathan Karl on Monday night
salivated over Republicans breaking Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge.
“We did see a sign the paralysis may be ending,” ...
11/18/2012 10:06 PM ET
Two ABC News stars have proven, once again, the media’s obsession with
raising taxes over any effort to cut a cent of spending. Two days after
the election, anchor Diane Sawyer repeatedly ...
11/14/2012 3:43 AM ET
Actor/comedian Robert Klein let loose on Monday night’s Late Show, roaring back with his fists raised, shrieking a loud, guttural “yeah!” to celebrate President Barack Obama’s re-election. And ...
11/12/2012 8:59 AM ET
Tonight (Monday), CBS-owned Showtime will debut a ten-part series: Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States. Ronald Radosh, in last week’s Weekly Standard,
determined it offers “not an ...
11/11/2012 10:12 PM ET
Sunday’s Meet the Press featured a panel of five, none of
them conservative (Congressman-elect Joaquín Castro, Republican
strategist Steve Schmidt, author Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Washington ...
