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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

Oprah: 'I Haven't Seen This Sense of Unity Since 9/11,' Now We're 'Tog

Brent Baker
November 4th, 2008 11:31 PM

Couric to Obama: What Will African-American President 'Mean to You Per

Brent Baker
November 3rd, 2008 9:53 PM

96% of Slate.com Staff to Vote for Obama; 55 to Just One for McCain

Brent Baker
November 1st, 2008 11:29 PM

NBC's Williams Empathizes with the 'Human' in Obama

Brent Baker
October 31st, 2008 9:22 PM

Round and Round the Candidates Go, It's 'Conservative' Wherever They G

Brent Baker
October 31st, 2008 1:43 AM

After Discrediting McCain, Williams Again Cozies Up to Obama

Brent Baker
October 30th, 2008 9:40 PM

Matthews on Obamamercial: 'Fabulous...Just Right...Realism

Brent Baker
October 29th, 2008 9:43 PM

NBC Frets Obviously Fake Flyer Will Confuse Its Dumb Viewers

Brent Baker
October 29th, 2008 8:57 PM

CBS Showcases 'Soul Searching' Republicans Upset by 'Ugly and Nasty' M

Brent Baker
October 29th, 2008 1:08 AM

Bernstein: McCain Hurt by Becoming a 'Captive of the Right Wing

Brent Baker
October 28th, 2008 3:04 AM

CBS Evening News Spikes Newly Found Obama 'Redistributive' Audio

Brent Baker
October 27th, 2008 9:57 PM

In Pickens Profile on CBS, Rose Slams 'Dirty...Smear' Swift Boat Ads

Brent Baker
October 26th, 2008 9:04 PM

Juan Williams: Top Journalists Brought their Kids to Obama Events

Brent Baker
October 26th, 2008 2:30 PM

CBS's Schieffer: McCain Doomed Because 'He Moved to the Right

Brent Baker
October 25th, 2008 6:55 PM

Robbins Warns of 'Another Stolen Election,' This Time from Obama

Brent Baker
October 25th, 2008 1:44 AM

Williams Piles on Palin: Confused, Wardrobe, Unqualified, Deposition

Brent Baker
October 24th, 2008 9:17 PM

Williams Pushes McCain & Palin on Ayers, Avoid Wright, Define 'Elite

Brent Baker
October 23rd, 2008 9:22 PM

By Nearly 8-to-1, Voters Say Journalists Want Obama to Win

Brent Baker
October 23rd, 2008 5:23 PM

Williams Hits McCain & Palin with Powell's Charge She's Unqualified

Brent Baker
October 23rd, 2008 2:29 AM

CBS Scolds McCain's Tactics, Sees Hypocrisy in Palin's 'Six-Figure War

Brent Baker
October 22nd, 2008 9:55 PM