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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

Clift Reveals: In 'Many Newsrooms' Palin Greeted by 'Laughter

Brent Baker
August 31st, 2008 2:43 AM

Hemmer Stunned by Maher's 'Ready to Have Sex' Rebuke of MSNBC

Brent Baker
August 30th, 2008 9:23 PM

Maher: Matthews and Olbermann 'Were Ready to Have Sex' w/ Obama

Brent Baker
August 30th, 2008 12:48 PM

CBS & NBC Label Palin 'Conservative,' Didn't Tag Biden as Liberal

Brent Baker
August 29th, 2008 8:54 PM

TV Journalists Relieved Obama 'Masterpiece' Took on McCain

Brent Baker
August 29th, 2008 5:48 AM

CBS and NBC Spike Big GDP Jump, ABC Gives It 13 Seconds

Brent Baker
August 28th, 2008 8:39 PM

Nightline Awards Democrats 'Straight A's' for 'Perfect' Third Night

Brent Baker
August 28th, 2008 5:59 AM

Williams Channels Fret Kerry Waited to Answer 'Swiftboating

Brent Baker
August 28th, 2008 3:00 AM

CBS Declares McCain's Anti-Obama Ad 'a Stretch

Brent Baker
August 27th, 2008 9:30 PM

Frustrated by Lack of 'Red Meat,' Not 'Hitting McCain Hard Enough

Brent Baker
August 27th, 2008 3:22 AM

Couric Hails Hillary's Impact; Williams: 'If Not Her, Who and When

Brent Baker
August 26th, 2008 9:03 PM

CBS Skips Not 'Proud,' ABC, CBS Decline to Label Liberal Kennedy

Brent Baker
August 26th, 2008 1:55 AM

CNN's Yellin: Obama Team 'Thinks Press Loves Biden' So Will 'Go Easy o

Brent Baker
August 24th, 2008 8:54 PM

Matthews Smears Conservatives; Obama 'Profound' with 'Fire I've Been W

Brent Baker
August 23rd, 2008 5:51 PM

MSNBC: Obama-Biden 'a Very Powerful Combination

Brent Baker
August 23rd, 2008 3:58 AM

NBC Uses Biden to Pursue 'Emblematic' McCain Homes Topic

Brent Baker
August 22nd, 2008 8:49 PM

Nets Pounce on McCain's 'Housing Crisis,' But Not So Fast with Kerry's

Brent Baker
August 21st, 2008 10:33 PM

CNN Producer Pitched 'Video Strategy' to Obama Campaign, Got Job

Brent Baker
August 21st, 2008 1:35 AM

CBS Rejects McCain's Assurance He's Not Questioning Obama's Patriotism

Brent Baker
August 20th, 2008 9:26 PM

Letterman Show Without Anti-Obama 'Top Ten' to Re-Run Tonight

Brent Baker
August 20th, 2008 5:20 PM