Brent Baker
VP of Research and Publications
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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).

Follow Baker via Twitter. (Full bioWashington Examiner's weekly "Mainstream Media Scream," with Baker's scream rating, are on NewsBusters as of January 2015. Read them here

Brent Baker | December 20, 2021
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria opened his Sunday CNN show by expressing how “I have to confess I find Joe Biden’s unpopularity puzzling.” He contended “Biden is a genial, likable person. Many of the policies he’s pursued have been popular, even some with Republican support. The country is doing reasonably well economically...” Zakaria ran through explanations for Biden’s lack of support, such as how he’s…
Brent Baker | December 13, 2021
NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday blamed President Biden’s plummeting approval numbers as something beyond his control and really the fault of former President Donald Trump. “It seems as if there’s nothing the White House can do to improve their political standing,” Todd rued on Meet the Press, citing how Biden’s “two big promises were to get COVID behind us and to get rid of Donald Trump,” yet “COVID’s…
Brent Baker | December 13, 2021
NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday blamed President Biden’s plummeting approval numbers as something beyond his control and really the fault of former President Donald Trump. “It seems as if there’s nothing the White House can do to improve their political standing,” Todd rued on Meet the Press, citing how Biden’s “two big promises were to get COVID behind us and to get rid of Donald Trump,” yet “COVID’s…
Brent Baker | December 6, 2021
MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday showcased a new The Atlantic magazine issue carrying the headline “January 6th Was Practice.” Co-host Mika Brezezinski read from the overview written by Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg: “There is insufficient space in any one issue of that magazine to trace the Republican party’s decomposition from Lincoln’s day to ours. It is enough to say that it’s most recent and…
Brent Baker | November 29, 2021
Discussing a summit on democracy set for next year at the White House, to which Russia and China have been excluded while Taiwan and Ukraine have been invited, a top Financial Times editor questioned “whether America is in the position today to really play host and to pick and choose.” Why: “A lot of countries, including the United States, are now defined as less democratic than they used to be.…
Brent Baker | November 8, 2021
Rejecting the notion that the victory for Winsome Sears, a black American, in the race for Lt. Governor of Virginia, provided any evidence that Virginia voters are not racist, Michael Eric Dyson smeared Sears as an enabler of white supremacy: “The problem is here they want, they want white supremacy by ventriloquist effect. There is a black mouth moving but through a white idea on the runway of…
Brent Baker | November 8, 2021
Rejecting the notion that the victory for Winsome Sears, a black American, in the race for Lt. Governor of Virginia, provided any evidence that Virginia voters are not racist, Michael Eric Dyson smeared Sears as an enabler of white supremacy: “The problem is here they want, they want white supremacy by ventriloquist effect. There is a black mouth moving but through a white idea on the runway of…
Brent Baker | November 1, 2021
Meet the Press host Chuck Todd on Sunday expressed his shock and surprise over a surging “wrong track” number in a new NBC News poll which also found Republicans are ahead of Biden on several major issues. “A shocking 71 percent say we’re on the ‘wrong track,’” Todd announced.  Todd recounted how “just 37 percent say” Biden “has the ability right now to handle a crisis” and 50 percent do not…
Brent Baker | October 18, 2021
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday featured a guest who he maintained showed how “families are torn apart by right wing radio and TV.” Jen Senko, author of a new book, The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the Right Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation – And How We can Fight Back, contended: “Our family kind of suffered for about 20 years when my dad discovered Rush Limbaugh and…
Brent Baker | October 11, 2021
Veteran journalist James Fallows expressed frustration with how telling the realityy about how awful Republicans are, in opposing President Joe Biden, makes the media seem “unbalanced” and as if journalists are taking a side.  Appearing on CNN’s Reliable Sources, the national correspondent for The Atlantic, rued “the struggle” for journalists who must blame Biden’s opponents for misbehaving, yet…