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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

Fake News: Trump Breaking Long Tradition By Not Throwing First Pitch

Brent Baker
April 3rd, 2017 2:50 AM
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FX’s The Americans Shows Socialism in Action: Moscow’s Barren Shelves

Brent Baker
March 28th, 2017 6:44 PM
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The Americans, FX’s KGB Spy Drama Set in Reagan ‘80s, Returns Tonight

Brent Baker
March 7th, 2017 8:14 PM

Mainstream Scream: On CNN Gergen Hits ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Trump Speech

Brent Baker
December 19th, 2016 5:36 PM
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On CBS, Slate’s Bouie Raises Specter ‘Election Was...Illegitimate’

Brent Baker
December 12th, 2016 7:58 AM

Washington Post Displays Bias While Decrying Perception of Media Bias

Brent Baker
December 10th, 2016 1:32 PM
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Reporters Hail Castro: ‘George Washington,’ ‘Folk Hero to Most of Us’

Brent Baker
November 26th, 2016 3:52 AM
Video

‘Good Times Never Seemed So Good!’ Flashback to Democratic/Media High

Brent Baker
November 19th, 2016 11:22 PM
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Oliver Freaks: ‘How the F- -k Did We Get Here, What Do We Do Now?’

Brent Baker
November 15th, 2016 9:24 AM

Washington Post’s ‘Best’ Campaign Media Moments: Hits on Trump

Brent Baker
November 7th, 2016 8:06 PM

By Overwhelming 10-1, Public Thinks Media Want Clinton to Win

Brent Baker
October 29th, 2016 7:24 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Trump Zings Pro-Clinton Media Outlets

Brent Baker
October 23rd, 2016 1:26 AM
Video

What Access Hollywood Viewers Saw in 2005 of Trump and Billy Bush

Brent Baker
October 15th, 2016 4:35 PM

Stephanopoulos Colluded with Clinton Campaign to Discredit Author

Brent Baker
October 13th, 2016 7:37 PM
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The ‘Best Obamagasm Clips’ Shown at MRC’s DisHonors Awards

Brent Baker
October 2nd, 2016 10:44 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video, Barber to Pence: ‘Your Name?’

Brent Baker
August 27th, 2016 11:57 PM
Video

Saturday Night Amusing Video: Obama Disappoints Prison Inmate

Brent Baker
July 2nd, 2016 11:22 PM
Video

Mainstream Media Scream: January-June 2016 Archive

Brent Baker
June 27th, 2016 4:42 PM
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Amusing Video: CBS’s King Creates New Demographic Group for Hillary

Brent Baker
June 19th, 2016 1:33 AM
Video

FX’s The Americans: Two Anti-Soviet Scenes In Its Fourth Season

Brent Baker
June 8th, 2016 7:48 PM