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 | February 14, 2022
“If document preservation hypocrisy were an Olympic sport, Trump would easily take home the gold,” CNN anchor Jim Acosta charged Saturday afternoon in citing allegations about how the former president had mishandled documents, including the allegation he flushed some down a White House toilet. After ridiculing Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ted Cruz, Acosta suggested “the MAGA…
Brent Baker | February 7, 2022
Brian Stelter, anchor of Reliable Sources, concluded his Sunday show by going “a little bit rogue” with a vociferous defense of CNN, claiming critics who say it’s full of opinion “don’t know what they’re talking about.”  In the wake of CNN President Jeff Zucker’s departure last week, Stelter launched a passionate defense of his network: “The people who say we’re lacking journalism, that we’ve…
Brent Baker | January 31, 2022
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday decried the likelihood conservatives and Fox News Channel hosts, motivated by racism, will oppose whoever President Biden nominates to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who last week announced his plan to retire at the end of the current term. “Fox wants a fight, right-wing radio and TV wants a fight. They need a fight over the Supreme Court,” Stelter…
Brent Baker | January 24, 2022
Several MSNBC shows on Friday touted an attack on Justice Clarence Thomas, and his wife, Ginni, by Jane Mayer, a left-wing journalist for the New Yorker with a long history of hostility to the Thomas.’ On Friday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, for instance, fill-in anchor Garrett Haake announced “a new New Yorker article is raising questions about Thomas’ wife’s conservative activism. “Is Ginni…
Brent Baker | January 24, 2022
Several MSNBC shows on Friday touted an attack on Justice Clarence Thomas, and his wife, Ginni, by Jane Mayer, a left-wing journalist for the New Yorker with a long history of hostility to the Thomas.’ On Friday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, for instance, fill-in anchor Garrett Haake announced “a new New Yorker article is raising questions about Thomas’ wife’s conservative activism. “Is Ginni…
Brent Baker | January 24, 2022
Several MSNBC shows on Friday touted an attack on Justice Clarence Thomas, and his wife, Ginni, by Jane Mayer, a left-wing journalist for the New Yorker with a long history of hostility to the Thomas.’ On Friday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, for instance, fill-in anchor Garrett Haake announced “a new New Yorker article is raising questions about Thomas’ wife’s conservative activism. “Is Ginni…
Brent Baker | January 17, 2022
MSNBC host Tiffany Cross on Saturday smeared Senator Kyrsten Sinema as a white supremacist for her opposition to eliminating the filibuster so a left-wing “voter rights” bill can pass. “Sinema is a Democrat. But she is in many ways upholding white supremacy,” Cross maintained.  >> This video clipped to illustrate Paul Bedard's January 17 Liberal Media Scream for the Washington Examiner…
Brent Baker | January 10, 2022
“America has vanquished demagogues before,” CNN’s Fareed Zakaria announced near the top of a Sunday night CNN Special Report, The Fight to Save American Democracy, in which contended Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. It didn’t take long to get to the Hitler comparisons after connecting Trump to Father Charles Coughlin. Zakaria noted that in the 1930s, democracy in Germany “was losing to a…
Brent Baker | January 3, 2022
Daily Caller columnist Wajahat Ali, in a Sunday night appearance on MSNBC, called the Republican party “a radical, weaponized death cult.” Ahead of Thursday’s one-year anniversary of the riot at the Capitol, he demanded the media provide “a daily, 24/7 nonstop story” focus on those events. So Republicans don’t win 2022, he urged an “every single day drum beat from now to the mid-terms to tell…
Brent Baker | December 27, 2021
To discredit Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who is blocking President Biden’s massive social spending bill, the panel on ABC’s This Week resurrected Ronald Reagan’s “trope “ of “welfare queens” and attacked Manchin for advancing the  interests of “plutocrats.” Citing how Manchin said recipients might misuse tax credits, Averi Harper, deputy political director for ABC News, charged that brings back “…