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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

Woman on MSNBC Exclaims 'Santa Claus Loves' Obama

Brent Baker
January 19th, 2009 6:03 PM

Fineman: On Train a 'Down-Home Folksiness' Between Journalists and Oba

Brent Baker
January 19th, 2009 1:46 PM

Top 100: Actors, Bands and Singers Converge to Celebrate Obama

Brent Baker
January 18th, 2009 3:45 PM

Celebs Giddy for Obama's 'Magic Moment' After 'Hell' of Bush Years

Brent Baker
January 17th, 2009 11:25 PM

CBS's Parting Shot at Bush: Lowest-Ever Approval Rating

Brent Baker
January 16th, 2009 8:44 PM

MSNBC Follows Bush with Bush-Bashing Diatribe from Matthews

Brent Baker
January 15th, 2009 8:57 PM

Bravo Reality Show Contestant Wears Hammer & Sickle Shirt

Brent Baker
January 15th, 2009 1:42 AM

Couric Presses Obama on Effectiveness of Tax Cuts Not Spending

Brent Baker
January 14th, 2009 8:11 PM

Could Pro-Obama Bias Trump Media's Anti-American Bias

Brent Baker
January 14th, 2009 12:23 AM

Washington, DC TV Anchors to Host an Obama Inaugural Ball

Brent Baker
January 13th, 2009 9:44 AM

New Stars of Fox's '24' Denounce Bush's 'Torture

Brent Baker
January 11th, 2009 6:34 PM

Stephanopoulos Pushes Obama to Drop Tax Cuts and to Prosecute Bush's C

Brent Baker
January 11th, 2009 3:10 PM

Neuharth: 'Media Owe Mea Culpa' for Not Warning of Bush's 'Misdeeds

Brent Baker
January 10th, 2009 11:30 PM

Time Mag's Joe Klein: 'A Profoundly un-American Administration

Brent Baker
January 8th, 2009 9:04 PM

NBC Commiserates with 'Hard Realities' Obama 'Up Against

Brent Baker
January 7th, 2009 9:23 PM

Flashback: Gupta Raises McCain's 'Substance Abuse,' Scolds Reagan on A

Brent Baker
January 7th, 2009 1:45 AM

ABC Frets Over Richardson as 'Distraction' from Obama's Agenda

Brent Baker
January 4th, 2009 9:44 PM

Globe's Carroll Dreams Obama Can Match Gorbachev's 'Greatness

Brent Baker
December 30th, 2008 12:57 AM

'Disheartened by What Bush Did to Us,' He Should Be 'Ashamed

Brent Baker
December 28th, 2008 4:43 PM

Newsweek Uses Year-End Edition to Take Potshots at Palin

Brent Baker
December 26th, 2008 3:23 PM