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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

ABC's Latest Gas Price Victim Can 'No Longer Take Joy Rides

Brent Baker
May 20th, 2008 8:48 AM

Evening Newscasts Forward Obama's ABC-Enabled Defense of Wife

Brent Baker
May 19th, 2008 9:54 PM

HBO's 'Recount' Movie: Favors Democrats, Harris as Cruella De Vil

Brent Baker
May 18th, 2008 3:41 PM

AP: 'There's Ample Evidence that Obama is Something Special

Brent Baker
May 17th, 2008 5:16 PM

Matching CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC Distort McCain on Hamas in

Brent Baker
May 16th, 2008 9:15 PM

Nets Show Scorn for 'Two-Pronged Republican Attack on Obama

Brent Baker
May 15th, 2008 8:48 PM

Nets Excited by 'Major' Edwards Endorsement to 'Create One America

Brent Baker
May 14th, 2008 9:19 PM

Rove Not Being Devil 'Complicates World View' of Newsweek Editor

Brent Baker
May 14th, 2008 2:46 AM

ABC Showcases Hapless Woman Who Skips Breakfast to Afford Gas

Brent Baker
May 13th, 2008 9:09 PM

Williams: 'Smart' Say Tornadoes a Reaction to Abuse of Earth

Brent Baker
May 12th, 2008 8:38 PM

Wash Post: Guantanamo Undermines Criticism of Chinese Repression

Brent Baker
May 11th, 2008 4:55 PM

Williams Tosses Softballs to Obama, Empathizes Over Elitist Image

Brent Baker
May 8th, 2008 8:28 PM

Veteran Washington Reporter: Media 'Took Much Too Long' on Wright

Brent Baker
May 8th, 2008 2:26 AM

Only NBC Reports Navy to Name Ship for Medal of Honor Recipient

Brent Baker
May 7th, 2008 9:15 PM

Matthews: Shame on All Who Participated in Rush's 'Operation Chaos

Brent Baker
May 7th, 2008 1:28 AM

AP: 'Far Right' Realizes McCain Judicial Nominees Anti-Roe v. Wade

Brent Baker
May 6th, 2008 11:26 PM

ABC Adds to Parade of Hapless Economic Victims, Now No Electricity

Brent Baker
May 6th, 2008 10:31 PM

Tapper: Clinton a Chameleon Playing Pro-Gun, Anti-Gas Tax Populist

Brent Baker
May 6th, 2008 12:38 AM

PBS and NY Times In House Watchdogs Bark at 'Soft' Wright Coverage

Brent Baker
May 5th, 2008 7:54 PM

CBS: 'Unpatriotic' Works, Even Against Purple Heart-Earning Kerry

Brent Baker
May 4th, 2008 8:11 PM