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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

Nets Take Last Shot at How Europeans Say Good Riddance to Bush, Prefer

Brent Baker
June 16th, 2008 9:23 AM

Jack Nicholson Keeps Donating to Left-Wing Losers

Brent Baker
June 14th, 2008 6:45 PM

Goldberg Recalls Russert's Call for Newsroom Ideological Diversity

Brent Baker
June 13th, 2008 9:53 PM

Flashback: In 2001, FNC's Brian Wilson Gave His Jacket to Russert

Brent Baker
June 13th, 2008 8:30 PM

NBC to Air Special Tonight on Tim Russert at 10 PM EDT/PDT

Brent Baker
June 13th, 2008 7:57 PM

Cafferty Scolds House Democrats for Not Pushing to Impeach Bush

Brent Baker
June 13th, 2008 1:04 PM

Ruling a 'Big' & 'Stinging' Defeat, Could Prove 'Embarrassing' to Bush

Brent Baker
June 12th, 2008 9:53 PM

Letterman on Bush & Cheney: 'Is There Any Humanity in Either of These

Brent Baker
June 12th, 2008 2:18 AM

Only ABC Considers Obama's Hypocrisy on Johnson Worth Full Story

Brent Baker
June 11th, 2008 9:58 PM

Media Prism: Repubs 'Block' Lower Gas Prices by Rejecting Tax Hike

Brent Baker
June 10th, 2008 10:07 PM

Brokaw Scolds Letterman on 'Horrible' U.S.; Environmental Hypocrisy

Brent Baker
June 10th, 2008 2:29 AM

NBC's Williams Tells Grads U.S. Broken, 'Need You to Fix the Country

Brent Baker
June 9th, 2008 9:30 PM

CBS's Byron Pitts Concedes He's 'Excited' by Obama's Nomination

Brent Baker
June 9th, 2008 11:42 AM

Film Producer Lucas: Obama My 'Hero' for Offering 'Dreams and Hope

Brent Baker
June 7th, 2008 9:27 PM

Inaccurate Olbermann Ridicules O'Reilly for Relaying Accurate Item fro

Brent Baker
June 6th, 2008 10:38 PM

CBS Frets Energy Cost, Skips Impact of Bill to 'Fight Global Warming

Brent Baker
June 6th, 2008 9:05 PM

Many Recognize Media's Pro-Obama Bias, Democrats Prefer CNN

Brent Baker
June 6th, 2008 3:41 AM

CBS & NBC Focus on KSM's Torture Claims, Only ABC Tags Him 'Evil

Brent Baker
June 5th, 2008 10:50 PM

Anchors Rejoice: Obama Making History, 'Son of Gun, I've Done This

Brent Baker
June 4th, 2008 10:10 PM

ABC Goes Live in Prime Time to Carry Triumphant Obama Speech

Brent Baker
June 3rd, 2008 11:08 PM