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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

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Saturday Night Funny Video: Wacky ‘News at 11’ Promos

Brent Baker
May 28th, 2016 11:57 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Obsessed with Obama Walking Through a Door

Brent Baker
May 22nd, 2016 12:16 AM
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Worst Jeopardy! Flubs of the Week by Journalists

Brent Baker
May 21st, 2016 8:50 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: ‘Oh My God Obama, Shut Up!’

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May 15th, 2016 12:21 AM
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Jeff Daniels: Trump’s Hat Should Say ‘Make America White Again’

Brent Baker
May 10th, 2016 2:05 AM
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Wed Morning Funny Video: TV Anchors Can't Pronounce ‘Acela’ Primary

Brent Baker
April 27th, 2016 2:46 AM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Trump’s Hand Gestures

Brent Baker
April 24th, 2016 12:05 AM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Trump’s ‘Bombshell’ Campaign Announcement

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April 2nd, 2016 11:06 PM
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Flashback: Video of Rob Ford with Jimmy Kimmel

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March 23rd, 2016 2:30 AM
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FX’s KGB Spy Drama Set in Reagan ‘80s, The Americans, Returns Tonight

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March 16th, 2016 6:04 PM
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Video Flashback: Nancy Reagan with Mike Wallace in 1975

Brent Baker
March 11th, 2016 1:15 PM
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FNC’s Watters Discovers People Abducted By Aliens Back Trump

Brent Baker
March 8th, 2016 1:46 PM

Two Days in Row, Wash Post Runs Stories on ‘Ethics’ of Scalia’s Trip

Brent Baker
February 19th, 2016 1:43 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Oblivious Local News Anchors

Brent Baker
January 31st, 2016 12:48 AM
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NBC’s Holt Frets to Hillary Clinton: ‘Do You Get Your Feelings Hurt?’

Brent Baker
January 29th, 2016 8:29 PM
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Rare Pro-Life Message in Prime Time: ‘Does This Look Like Few Cells?’

Brent Baker
January 24th, 2016 8:21 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Congrats North Korea on Hydrogen Bomb!

Brent Baker
January 10th, 2016 12:38 AM
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CNN’s Cooper Lets Slip: White House Press Corps ‘Agrees’ With Obama

Brent Baker
January 9th, 2016 8:52 PM

Book on 41 Hostile to Reagan and Blames Gingrich for ‘Ugly’ Politics

Brent Baker
January 3rd, 2016 10:24 AM

How Cozy: Obama Campaign to NYT to WSJ to USA Today and Now to CBS

Brent Baker
December 30th, 2015 10:55 PM