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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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Soundbite of the Week: Soviets Feared ‘Reagan, AIDS and Jews’

Brent Baker
May 16th, 2015 10:24 PM

Wolff Zings: Voters Disproved Out of Touch British News Media

Brent Baker
May 12th, 2015 7:50 AM
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Wouldn’t Be Taking Fiorina ‘Seriously If She Weren’t a Woman’

Brent Baker
May 10th, 2015 2:15 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: 6th Grader Tells Obama to Wrap It Up

Brent Baker
May 10th, 2015 12:41 AM
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On Maher, Crystal Delights in Telling Anecdote Placing Reagan in Hell

Brent Baker
May 9th, 2015 3:02 PM
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FX’s The Americans: KGB Agents Distraught at Reagan’s ‘Evil Empire’

Brent Baker
April 25th, 2015 9:47 PM
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Sat Night Funny Video: Imagining Hillary’s Chipotle Planning Meeting

Brent Baker
April 19th, 2015 12:05 AM
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Harvey Keitel on Hillary: ‘She Deserves the Job If She Wants It’

Brent Baker
April 18th, 2015 9:59 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: ‘I’m Ridin with Biden’ or...

Brent Baker
April 12th, 2015 12:27 AM
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HBO’s Sinatra Documentary Acknowledges JFK’s Racism

Brent Baker
April 11th, 2015 9:56 PM
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Sat Night Funny Video: ‘Five Letter’ Cable Channel Concerned for GOP

Brent Baker
March 29th, 2015 12:14 AM

Obama Taps Washington Post Veteran Murray as Senior Adviser

Brent Baker
March 24th, 2015 3:46 PM
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Hayes Demolishes ‘Preposterous’ Media-Democratic Line on Iran Letter

Brent Baker
March 10th, 2015 8:27 PM
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Martin Bashir Doubles His CBS Airtime...to Six Seconds

Brent Baker
March 9th, 2015 4:51 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: ‘Dad, What’s In Here?’

Brent Baker
March 8th, 2015 12:21 AM
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Martin Bashir Returns to TV In Prime Time on CBS

Brent Baker
March 5th, 2015 4:29 PM
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More Humor from Stan Evans and His ‘Evans’ Law of Inadequate Paranoia’

Brent Baker
March 4th, 2015 2:04 PM
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Witty Remarks By Stan Evans, RIP, at the MRC’s 2006 ‘DisHonors Awards’

Brent Baker
March 3rd, 2015 4:11 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Top Ten Things Said By a Handsy Biden

Brent Baker
February 21st, 2015 11:48 PM
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Saturday Night Funny Video: Fact-Checking Obama

Brent Baker
February 14th, 2015 11:54 PM