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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

Awed Actress Meryl Streep ‘Star-Struck’ by Barack and Michelle Oba

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January 12th, 2010 11:24 AM

As Stephanopoulos Leaves 'This Week,' News of a Booster Seat in the Mo

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January 10th, 2010 2:50 PM

ABC’s Sawyer Hails Obama: ‘Buck Stops Here’ an ‘Echo of Anothe

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January 8th, 2010 2:24 AM

CBS Commentator: 00’s Brought ‘Intellectual’ President, Also

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January 3rd, 2010 11:54 PM

Moran and Brownstein Take Swipes at Limbaugh’s Health System ‘Just

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January 3rd, 2010 1:52 PM

ABC Despairs Demise of Death Tax Means ‘Government Will Lose Billion

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January 2nd, 2010 9:46 PM

Ex-Washington Post Ombudsman, Who Recognized Liberal Bias, Killed in N

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January 2nd, 2010 1:07 PM

Rush Limbaugh Leaves Hospital ‘Feeling Strong and Rested

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January 1st, 2010 11:01 PM

CBS Frets Obama Must Work and So Can’t ‘Recharge His Batteries

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January 1st, 2010 2:02 PM

Radio Equalizer: Limbaugh Hospitalization Brings Out the Hate Brigade

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December 31st, 2009 10:49 PM

Honolulu TV: Rush Limbaugh Hospitalized After Chest Pains

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December 30th, 2009 11:38 PM

ABC's Wright Offers Sarcasm in Story on Conservative Criticism of Obam

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December 30th, 2009 9:20 PM

Boston Herald’s Film Reviewer Baffled Gore’s Movie Didn’t Propel

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December 30th, 2009 12:45 PM

Mitchell Hails Success of 'Obama Doctrine,' Palin's Wallace-Like Appea

Brent Baker
December 27th, 2009 4:56 PM

Fox Newswatch Highlights Couric & Klein in MRC's Awards for Worst Repo

Brent Baker
December 26th, 2009 11:49 PM

Couric Touts How 'Most of Us Are Ready to Say Good Riddance' to Past D

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December 22nd, 2009 12:31 AM

ABC's Roberts: People Will Be Thrilled by Health Bill Once They 'Under

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December 20th, 2009 5:14 PM

Gibson Rues Loss of Media Objectivity....Moments After Johnson Pontifi

Brent Baker
December 19th, 2009 1:37 PM

CBS Leads with Byrd's 'Shame, Shame' in Story on GOP 'Delaying Tactics

Brent Baker
December 18th, 2009 11:42 PM

Gibson Empathizes with Obama: 'Holy God, What a Weight that Is on Your

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December 16th, 2009 8:34 PM