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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8/28/2012 3:11 AM ET
“Some Republicans wonder whether Romney is too moderate for the increasingly conservative party,” CBS Evening News
anchor Scott Pelley refreshingly asked Monday night in veering from the
media ...
8/26/2012 10:50 PM ET
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos opened his Sunday show: “Good morning and welcome to This Week. Storms brewing. The GOP convention threatened by Tropical Storm Isaac and that political hurricane from ...
8/26/2012 10:38 PM ET
Last week when President Barack Obama raised the old tale of how Mitt Romney once put his dog in a car top carrier, the NBC Nightly News gave a sentence to how Obama “took a dig at Romney” and ...
8/14/2012 8:37 AM ET
Chuck Todd has chutzpah. Jake Tapper has some integrity. For decades,
journalists have aided liberals by mischaracterizing proposed slight
reductions in the rate of spending hikes on a program ...
8/13/2012 8:40 AM ET
Advancing a false narrative about how the wealthy are paying a lower tax rate than the middle class, CBS Bob Schieffer used his 60 Minutes
session with the Republican ticket to push Mitt Romney ...
8/9/2012 9:16 AM ET
“On our broadcast tonight,” Brian Williams teased his lead story Wednesday night, “extreme heat, but more than that: the official confirmation that came today that it has never been this hot in ...
8/5/2012 10:04 PM ET
“Harry Reid is disgrace. But you expect this from Harry Reid,” The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes zinged on FNC’s Special Report
Friday night before turning his ire on a certain Washington, ...
8/2/2012 10:28 AM ET
“A conservative Republican was beaten by an even more conservative Tea Party candidate,” CBS Evening News anchor
Scott Pelley announced Wednesday night in reporting Ted Cruz’s victory
in ...
7/30/2012 11:47 PM ET
Journalists are quite eager to undermine Mitt Romney’s trip. “A new diplomatic dust-up,”
CBS anchor Scott Pelley teased Monday night, citing how “Mitt Romney in
the Middle East says culture ...
7/30/2012 1:48 AM ET
CBS couldn't resist Newsweek's Romney “Wimp Factor” cover. “I just got a copy of the Newsweek
cover that’s going to be hitting the newsstands tomorrow that calls you
a ‘wimp,’” reporter Jan ...
7/28/2012 2:20 AM ET
CBS and NBC on Friday night aired full stories on the very weak 1.5
percent second quarter GDP rate, down from an anemic two percent in the
first quarter, yet – incredibly – ABC’s World News, ...
7/12/2012 3:45 AM ET
Showing a renewed concern for the interests of taxpayers, CBS put “Cost to Taxpayers” on screen Wednesday night as CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley worried not about the cost of ObamaCare, but ...
7/9/2012 11:54 PM ET
$150 billion. That’s “the cost to taxpayers” for President Barack
Obama’s proposal to not increase the income tax rate for those earning
less than $250,000, White House correspondent Norah ...
7/2/2012 3:32 AM ET
How cozy. Former Democratic operative turned television news host
George Stephanopoulos used his ABC News platform on Sunday to celebrate,
with Vicki Reggie Kennedy, ObamaCare’s Supreme ...
6/27/2012 8:55 AM ET
Some creative spin in favor of President Barack Obama from Chuck Todd on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News. Recounting the results of a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll which puts Obama ahead of ...
6/26/2012 1:06 AM ET
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the law requiring Arizona law
enforcement to check the immigration status of those they suspect are
illegal is “very disappointing and very dangerous,” ...
6/25/2012 8:23 AM ET
Unintentionally defining irony, in the midst of trying to rationalize
news media disinterest in the “Fast & Furious” scandal by
maintaining “it’s not a political scandal” but “a scandal of ...
6/21/2012 9:34 AM ET
Writer/producer Aaron Sorkin, whose new drama, Newsroom, about a cable news anchor -- which debuts this Sunday night on HBO -- proved in a USA Today piece he lives in a fantasy world. First, he ...
6/11/2012 8:50 AM ET
Last week, for the third year in a row, the Television Critics Association
– which “represents more than 200 journalists writing about television
for print and online outlets in the United ...
5/29/2012 11:30 AM ET
Accurate, but not true. It took 23 years, but on Sunday morning’s Face the Nation,
Bob Schieffer contended “everything” in his 1989 book, which provided a
derogatory look from the left at the ...
