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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

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October 8th, 2012 7:56 AM

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October 6th, 2012 11:59 PM

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October 6th, 2012 11:02 AM

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October 5th, 2012 2:03 AM

Dreesen on Eastwood: ‘All He Asked Is That Maybe Our Government Woul

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October 3rd, 2012 1:16 AM

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September 30th, 2012 5:22 PM

Ex-ABC Anchor Gibson Asserts Romney Forced ‘Far To the Right’ and

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September 24th, 2012 1:15 AM

ABC’s Karl Dissembles on Romney’s Tax Rate, But NBC Points Out He

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September 22nd, 2012 2:09 PM

Romney Directs Media to Obama’s ‘Redistribution’ Plea, But Only

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September 20th, 2012 12:29 AM

Yes, But: NBC and CBS Try to Undermine Romney’s Accurate Observation

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September 19th, 2012 1:10 AM

Flashback: Letterman Glows to Obama: ‘I Can’t Tell You How Satisfy

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September 18th, 2012 3:57 PM

NBC’s Williams Jumps to Highlight Surreptitiously-Recorded Romney Co

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September 17th, 2012 9:04 PM

Pelley Trumpets Obama’s ‘Remarkable Moment of Candor’ in What Ma

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September 15th, 2012 3:56 PM

Steve Hayes: ‘You Knew the Media Were Going to Obsess on This and Ob

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September 12th, 2012 8:55 PM

Gregory Pushes Romney to ‘Cut a Deal with Democrats that Would Cause

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September 9th, 2012 2:48 PM