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Brent Baker

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Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) is the Steven P.J. Wood Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center (MRC), the publisher of NewsBusters. He’s been the central figure in the MRC’s News Analysis Division since the MRC’s 1987 founding and in 2005 spearheaded the launch of NewsBusters.

Baker oversaw the selection of the award nominees and “winners” for the MRC’s “DisHonors Awards” (highlight video clips on NewsBusters), presented at an annual gala, and each week he helps the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard select a “Liberal Media Scream.” Those picks are added, on a one week delay, to NewsBusters.

In 2001, Weekly Standard Executive Editor Fred Barnes dubbed Baker “the scourge of liberal bias.”

For 13 years, 1996 through 2009, he compiled and edited the daily CyberAlert e-mail and online report. In late May of 2009 the CyberAlert became an e-mail-only product based on BiasAlert postings on the MRC's Web site until it was discontinued in 2015. 

From 1988 through 2015 he served as Editor of Notable Quotables (archive), a two-page newsletter which delivered a bi-weekly compilation of quotes from the liberal media which reflected biased reporting. At each year-end, an annual “awards for the year’s worst reporting” were selected by a panel of judges. (NQ collections on NewsBusters since 2016). From 1988 to 1999 he also oversaw MediaWatch, a monthly and later bi-weekly newsletter which the MRC discontinued in order to concentrate efforts on more timely analysis via the Internet.

Baker is the author of How to Identify, Expose & Correct Liberal Media Bias, a 1994 book which offers detailed explanations and suggestions for what the average citizen can do about media bias. Baker was co-editor of And That’s the Way It Isn’t: A Reference Guide to Media Bias, a 1990 book containing excerpts, reprints and summaries of 45 studies documenting the media's liberal bias during the 1980s.

Baker lived in Massachusetts through high school, whereupon he fled the liberal commonwealth for George Washington University in DC and, since graduation, a life in Northern Virginia. He edited the conservative college student newspaper The Sequent and graduated from GWU with special honors in political science in 1985.

After a stint at Conservative Digest magazine, Baker joined Brent Bozell at the National Conservative Foundation (as editor of the newsletter Newswatch) before helping to create the MRC in 1987.

An avid fan of the Washington Capitals NHL hockey team, in January of 2009 the Washington Post's "DC Sports Bog" took note of Baker's attendance at a Caps game with John Kerry: "The Caps, John Kerry and a Scourge."

Bio on MRC.org.


Latest Blogs

Liberal Media Scream: ‘Bloodbath’ Is What Media Are Doing to Trump

Brent Baker
March 18th, 2024 5:44 PM

Apples and Bananas: The Necessity of Differentiating Facts and Opinion

Alex Christy and Brent Baker
December 15th, 2023 9:00 AM
Video

Liberal Media Scream: 2021-2022 Archive

Brent Baker
December 31st, 2022 6:00 PM
Video

Lucianne Goldberg, RIP, Video of Her at MRC’s 2002 DisHonors Awards

Brent Baker
October 28th, 2022 12:57 AM

College Journalist Excoriates ‘Breaches of My New Nation’s Promises’

Brent Baker
August 3rd, 2022 12:23 AM

Most Journalists Don’t Believe In ‘Equal Coverage’; 43% Admit Bias

Brent Baker
June 15th, 2022 8:39 AM

Midge Decter, RIP; Video of Her At MRC’s DisHonors Awards in 2005

Brent Baker
May 10th, 2022 1:43 PM
Video

Liberal Media Scream: 2020 Archive

Brent Baker
December 28th, 2020 4:34 PM
Video

Showtime Documentary Smears Reagan as Racist Precursor to Trump

Brent Baker
November 13th, 2020 1:26 PM
Video

Herman Cain Presents ‘Funny Clips’ at MRC’s 20th Anniversary Gala

Brent Baker
July 30th, 2020 3:50 PM
Study

STUDY: CNN & MSNBC Blast Trump’s Briefings, Don’t Show 13 Hours

Brent Baker
April 16th, 2020 10:05 AM
Video

Kimmel Checks In From Home, Calls Trump Racist, Tells Him to ‘Shut Up’

Brent Baker
March 20th, 2020 9:03 AM
Video

News Exec: Liberal Bias ‘Accelerating Wedge In Our Society’

Brent Baker
February 24th, 2020 3:16 AM
Video

Liberal Media Scream: Ex-NYT Critic Says Trump Aides Cultists, Toadies

Brent Baker
December 30th, 2019 5:05 PM

Showtime’s ‘Unauthorized Abortion of W’ Barbara Bush Sculpture

Brent Baker
December 8th, 2019 6:38 PM
Video

Witty Anti-Media Allegory and Joke from the Late T. Boone Pickens

Brent Baker
September 15th, 2019 1:03 AM

Dreaming Mueller Implores Dems ‘Don’t Give a Speech; You Must Impeach’

Brent Baker
July 24th, 2019 7:11 AM

Washington Post’s Tumulty Pleads for Obama to Save Nation from Trump

Brent Baker
July 20th, 2019 10:51 PM

NPR Host: Instill Fear, Say Climate Change Will Cause Human Extinction

Brent Baker
May 7th, 2019 7:45 PM
Video

Maher Denigrates Barr as ‘Stooge’ Taking Part in ‘High Tech Coup’

Brent Baker
March 30th, 2019 1:45 AM