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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

Gregory Frets Obama Losing ‘Scope’ to ‘Usher in Economic Restora

Brent Baker
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Fox Affiliate’s ‘Improvised’ Recreat

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Maher Calls Bike Ride with Wounded Warriors ‘Nauseating,’ Compares

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June 1st, 2013 3:31 PM

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May 28th, 2013 8:51 PM

Evening Newscasts an Obama Scandal-Free Zone; ABC Touts Obama as ‘Co

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May 25th, 2013 9:23 PM

Taranto: ‘Obama Presidency Has Given Liberal Media Bias a New and Da

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May 25th, 2013 2:21 PM

Only CBS Notes IRS Official’s Leave, Yet ABC and NBC Have Time to Sh

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May 24th, 2013 7:40 AM

Which Way Is It? ‘Scandals Threaten Obama’s Agenda’ Or Obama

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May 21st, 2013 2:01 PM

CBS Highlights Ex-IRS Staffer Who Declares There Were No Politics at C

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May 21st, 2013 8:47 AM

ABC Drama Warns of ‘Conservative Overlords’ Bringing Anti-Black

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May 16th, 2013 8:23 PM

The Hill’s Cusack Recognizes Media Failure on Benghazi; Carlson Blam

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May 12th, 2013 3:53 PM

Befuddled by Benghazi, Top Political Reporters Admit Irrelevancy to Un

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May 12th, 2013 9:42 AM

Hume: For Benghazi to Become a Scandal Will Require ‘Relentless News

Brent Baker
May 7th, 2013 9:16 AM

NBC’s Joy-Ann Reid: Only ‘Sane’ Way to Boost Economy is More Spe

Brent Baker
May 6th, 2013 6:52 AM

Sunday Morning Miracle: CBS’s Face the Nation Leads with Benghazi

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May 5th, 2013 3:38 PM

Letterman Sinks to Denigrating Gun Rights Senators (Inhofe, Flake, Cru

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April 27th, 2013 5:21 PM

NBC News/Saturday Night Live Synergy: ‘Problem’ Is Lack of Action

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April 14th, 2013 6:42 PM

Bill Maher: Some in Army ‘Are Psychopaths...It’s the One Place Whe

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April 8th, 2013 8:12 AM

CBS’s Pelley Hails Trilogy of Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy and

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April 3rd, 2013 8:19 AM

Tonight’s ‘Law & Order’ on NBC to Exploit Todd Akin’s ‘Legit

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March 27th, 2013 4:23 PM