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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3/20/2013 9:08 AM ET
A lengthy – 3,500 word – anguished expose on the front page of Sunday’s Washington Post, “Hungering for a new month to begin,”
about how people in Woonsocket, Rhode Island race to the grocery ...
3/16/2013 3:36 PM ET
The Obama administration in 2009 dropped the Bush administration’s
plan to add missile interceptor capability against North Korea, yet on
Friday, when Obama’s Pentagon realized their error and ...
3/9/2013 3:39 PM ET
Charles Krauthammer credited President Obama’s charm offensive toward
Republicans to his losing the news media which couldn’t any longer abide
his ridiculous sequester “cut” exaggerations. ...
3/4/2013 8:37 AM ET
“Do you all feel that your party is somehow being held hostage?” Bob
Schieffer asked Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham,
presumably referring to those opposed to raising taxes. ...
2/26/2013 12:07 PM ET
Picking up on a Saturday front page New York Times story
on how the Obama campaign is selling access to the White House through
its newly formed Organizing for Action group, a revelation ...
2/24/2013 9:46 PM ET
HBO’s Sunday night dramady, Enlightened, is delivering something very rare: A true to life depiction of a journalist – specifically identified as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times
– as a ...
2/21/2013 10:07 AM ET
KGB operatives infiltrated conservative media? Wednesday night’s episode of FX’s The Americans
imagines that in 1981 a conservative magazine employed a journalist who
was really a KGB mole. On ...
2/18/2013 9:40 AM ET
It’s bad enough that Chris Matthews gets two hours a day on MSNBC to
showcase his anti-conservative rants, but why does host David Gregory
undermine any pretense that NBC News is not the same ...
2/13/2013 9:04 PM ET
Last week’s second episode of The Americans (the third episode ran last night, February 13, on FX), dramatically ended with a scene
showing the horror realized by KGB operatives at the Soviet ...
2/12/2013 9:34 PM ET
Previewing the State of the Union address, CBS Evening News anchor
Scott Pelley repeatedly scolded Republican House Speaker John Boehner
for daring to criticize President Barack Obama’s ...
2/11/2013 3:31 AM ET
CNN anchor Deb Feyerick asked Saturday afternoon if an
approaching asteroid, which will pass by Earth on February 15, “is an example of, perhaps, global warming?” Moments earlier, before an ad ...
2/11/2013 3:16 AM ET
Foreign Policy, “a global magazine of politics, economics, and ideas,” has “just delivered its new issue, and like Newsweek before,” the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard noticed Friday ...
2/4/2013 9:18 AM ET
It wasn’t the embarrassing kiss-up debacle CBS’s Steve Kroft delivered a week ago from the White House, but CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, in his late afternoon pre-Super Bowl sit down with ...
1/31/2013 8:52 PM ET
FX’s new series which debuted Wednesday night, The Americans,
is centered around husband and wife KGB sleeper agents who live with
their kids as ordinary Americans in suburban Washington, ...
1/30/2013 9:58 PM ET
Last month, when the Republican Governor of South Carolina named GOP
U.S. Representative Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate, the “first African
American U.S. Senator from the South since Blanche ...
1/26/2013 10:40 PM ET
The annual pro-life march, this year marking the 40th anniversary of the
Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision, drew tens of thousands to
Washington, DC on Friday, but didn’t garner a syllable ...
1/26/2013 5:05 AM ET
“Is Hillary Clinton the new Barack Obama in the eyes of the national
media?” Bill O’Reilly asked in his Friday night “Talking Points Memo,”
using the same examples as highlighted in the ...
1/23/2013 10:55 PM ET
ABC and NBC, and CBS to a lesser extent, on Wednesday night
treated Secretary of State Clinton’s appearances before Senate and House
committees not as an chance to explore Obama administration ...
1/22/2013 9:59 AM ET
“Analysts on the left and the right are calling President Obama’s second
inaugural address the most liberal speech he has delivered in office,”
FNC’s Bret Baier announced at the top of ...
1/19/2013 12:13 PM ET
Conservatives have long joked that the national press corps see Barack Obama as the second coming of Jesus Christ. Today, Newsweek – at least what’s left of it, an online product for tablets and ...
