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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.


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Saturday Night Funny Video: Tough Talking Deputy Takes on a Thief

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August 1st, 2015 11:58 PM
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Obama Campaign Volunteer and Donor to Anchor CBS Evening News

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July 29th, 2015 6:04 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Rubio Reacts to Stewart Mocking NYT Attack

Brent Baker
July 26th, 2015 12:08 AM
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Ann Coulter’s Scenes in SyFy’s Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!

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July 22nd, 2015 11:12 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Walker’s Kohl’s Anecdote – Synchronized

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July 19th, 2015 12:21 AM
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CNN’s Seventies: Ford a ‘Conservative’ and Carter a Victim of Bad Luck

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July 18th, 2015 6:04 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Anchors Prompting the Desired Soundbites

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July 11th, 2015 11:46 PM

USA Today’s White House Reporter Delivers Liberal Anti-Reagan Cliches

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July 10th, 2015 2:09 AM
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Holiday Treat: Impromptu A Cappella ‘God Bless the USA’ by Army Chorus

Brent Baker
July 4th, 2015 5:04 PM
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Mainstream Media Scream: January-Jun 2015 Archive

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June 29th, 2015 4:44 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Senator Cruz’s ‘Hidden Talent’

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June 28th, 2015 12:01 AM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: CNN’s Misplaced New York

Brent Baker
June 21st, 2015 12:51 AM
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Sat Night Funny Video: 91-Year Old’s ‘First and Last’ Bucket List Item

Brent Baker
June 14th, 2015 12:09 AM
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Goldberg Calls Out Seinfeld: ‘Say Libs Created That Creepy Culture’

Brent Baker
June 13th, 2015 8:15 PM
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On His New Show, FNC’s Gutfeld Zings Jon Stewart: ‘Edgy’ is Not Risky

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June 7th, 2015 9:15 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Segue of the Day on HLN

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June 7th, 2015 12:25 AM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Officials Dozing Off in Public

Brent Baker
May 31st, 2015 12:27 AM
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Heilemann: If Sanders Were Republican, ‘It Would Be a Huge Scandal’

Brent Baker
May 30th, 2015 2:44 PM

Saturday Night Funny Video: Biden’s Inexplicable Commencement Advice

Brent Baker
May 24th, 2015 12:24 AM
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Sat Night Funny Video: Not Appreciating Mother’s Day Call from Obama

Brent Baker
May 16th, 2015 11:47 PM