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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

Olbermann Targets Hume as “Worser” in “Worst Person in the World

Brent Baker
August 24th, 2005 9:31 PM

Newspaper Mag Editor Urges Papers to Demand Withdrawal from Iraq

Brent Baker
August 24th, 2005 5:40 PM

NBC Nightly News Compares Iraq to Vietnam

Brent Baker
August 24th, 2005 11:18 AM

Network Firestorm Tuesday Night Over Pat Robertson

Brent Baker
August 23rd, 2005 10:36 PM

GMA Features Sheehan Ally, Pleads: "Can Anti-War Moms Stop Bush

Brent Baker
August 23rd, 2005 11:44 AM

Totenberg: Roberts "Much More Conservative than I Ever Would Have Gues

Brent Baker
August 22nd, 2005 10:35 AM

Olbermann Impugns MRC as “Scam,” Again Tags Rush as “Worst Perso

Brent Baker
August 20th, 2005 12:45 AM

Washington Post Reporter Finds Roberts Offensive

Brent Baker
August 19th, 2005 10:35 PM

Nets, AP Tout Sheehan’s Achievements, Yearn for Revived Anti-War Eff

Brent Baker
August 19th, 2005 11:36 AM

Washington Post Blast: “Roberts Resisted Women's Rights

Brent Baker
August 19th, 2005 12:34 AM

Olbermann Brands Limbaugh "Worst Person in the World

Brent Baker
August 18th, 2005 2:54 PM

Barone: WW II Press Would've "Mercifully Given No Publicity" to Sheeha

Brent Baker
August 17th, 2005 8:32 PM

Sheehan Gets Back-to-Back Shots on MSNBC and CNN

Brent Baker
August 15th, 2005 10:43 PM

Sheehan “Single-Handedly Bringing Iraq Debate to Bush's Doorstep

Brent Baker
August 15th, 2005 9:53 AM

NBC Re-Runs Show that Tagged DeLay as Hero to White Supremacist Murder

Brent Baker
August 14th, 2005 8:39 PM

Nets Trump Bush Driving by Sheehan on Way to Fund-Raiser

Brent Baker
August 12th, 2005 10:51 PM

More False Claims of “Record High” Energy Prices, But NBC Concedes

Brent Baker
August 12th, 2005 8:51 PM

NBC Showcases Sheehan, MSNBC Touts Her as Symbol of “Dissent

Brent Baker
August 12th, 2005 11:12 AM

Barnes Calls Sheehan “Crackpot,” Rues Media Focus on Her

Brent Baker
August 11th, 2005 7:32 PM

Tonight on FX: Using Abortion to Pick Up Chicks

Brent Baker
August 11th, 2005 5:00 PM