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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

Nets Reluctant to Characterize Obama’s Inaugural Speech as ‘Libera

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ABC, CBS and NBC All Refuse to Identify Indicted Nagin as Democrat

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January 13th, 2013 3:20 PM

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January 13th, 2013 12:31 AM

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January 7th, 2013 7:45 PM

Letterman Admits He Apologized to Palin So He Could ‘Go Forward Maki

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January 7th, 2013 3:21 AM

NBC’s Gregory Frets: If Only Republicans Had Caved Earlier on Tax Hi

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January 6th, 2013 3:36 PM

Time’s Klein: Last Time Conservatives Were Rational, ‘Norquist Was

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December 30th, 2012 7:42 PM

FNC’s Fox NewsWatch Showcases MRC’s Awards for the Year’s Worst

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December 29th, 2012 8:58 PM

ABC’s World News Highlights Walters Wondering How Obamas Get It On

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December 27th, 2012 10:21 AM

Saturday Night Funny Video: Women v Men Via Corn on the Cob

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December 23rd, 2012 1:42 AM

CBS’s Pelley Labels Bork ‘Arch Conservative,’ Provides Innocuous

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December 20th, 2012 9:30 AM

ABC and CBS Skip News of Tim Scott’s Historic Senate Appointment [UP

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December 18th, 2012 3:11 PM

ABC’s Cokie Roberts Urges ‘Cut the Knees Out from Under’ Norquis

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December 2nd, 2012 12:30 PM

NBC Frets ‘Awkward Backdrop’ and ‘Cloud’ Over Romney-Obama Lun

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November 29th, 2012 8:56 PM

ABC Salivates Over ‘Mutiny’ Against Anti-Tax Pledge That’s Been

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November 26th, 2012 8:53 PM

USA Today Founder’s Entire Family Backed Obama, Daughter Would’ve

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November 24th, 2012 12:49 AM

Alec Baldwin Grew Fat While Watching Rachel Maddow

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November 21st, 2012 3:33 AM

ABC Pressed Boehner to Agree to Tax Hike, on Sunday Fail to Push Pelos

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November 18th, 2012 7:20 PM