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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

Couric Provides Forum for Female Clinton Backers to Vent

Brent Baker
June 3rd, 2008 9:30 PM

McClellan Promised Look at How Media Hostility to Bush 'Rooted in a Li

Brent Baker
June 3rd, 2008 11:43 AM

NBC Nightly News Spikes News About Fewest Troop Deaths of War

Brent Baker
June 2nd, 2008 10:28 PM

If McCain Wins, Sarandon Threatens (Promises!?) to Leave U.S

Brent Baker
June 1st, 2008 8:59 PM

McClellan's Publisher Required 'Integrity & Candor,' Not Bush Defense

Brent Baker
May 30th, 2008 3:34 AM

McClellan Tells ABC & CBS: 'Intrigued' by Obama, May Vote for Him

Brent Baker
May 29th, 2008 8:07 PM

McClellan's Publisher a Liberal: Advances Soros & Slams Limbaugh

Brent Baker
May 29th, 2008 2:35 AM

McClellan's First Stop on Cable: MSNBC's Far-Left 'Countdown

Brent Baker
May 28th, 2008 9:31 PM

Couric: Nefarious Talking Point Coordination from McClellan Critics

Brent Baker
May 28th, 2008 9:02 PM

NBC's Hapless Viewers: 'Burgers' Not Ribs, 'Next Year' Only Soup

Brent Baker
May 27th, 2008 9:58 PM

CNN Creates Sunday Show for Liberal Journalist Fareed Zakaria

Brent Baker
May 27th, 2008 2:59 AM

Weirdest Moment in HBO Film: 'Jennings & Brokaw Have Bald Spots

Brent Baker
May 25th, 2008 11:51 PM

Reminder: Bush Won in Florida Recounts Conducted by the Media

Brent Baker
May 25th, 2008 7:56 PM

Dern 'Devastated' by Florida 'Because There Were Uncounted Votes

Brent Baker
May 25th, 2008 3:48 PM

CBS: 'Substance Abuse'? People Think McCain's War Injuries 'Funny

Brent Baker
May 23rd, 2008 9:16 PM

ABC: McCain Psychologically Damaged? Suffer Dementia? Die Soon

Brent Baker
May 22nd, 2008 9:13 PM

Spacey Confirms HBO's 'Recount' Is from 'Democratic Point of View

Brent Baker
May 22nd, 2008 3:31 AM

'I Hate to Keep Being in the Position of Defending Obama, But

Brent Baker
May 21st, 2008 9:47 PM

Douglass Joins Obama's Campaign, Reported from Left at ABC & CBS

Brent Baker
May 21st, 2008 7:00 PM

With Kennedy as Hook, Couric Rues Inadequate Cancer Spending

Brent Baker
May 20th, 2008 11:28 PM