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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 Regrets California's 'Unwillingness to Raise Taxes

Brent Baker
May 19th, 2009 9:52 PM

Dire Couric Recalls Great Depression, Warns Our Kids Will Be the 'Lost

Brent Baker
May 18th, 2009 9:25 PM

CNN's Whitfield Hails as 'Courageous' Obama's Notre Dame Speech

Brent Baker
May 17th, 2009 4:40 PM

CBS Anchor on Pelosi: 'Is This Over?'; ABC Hails Obama's 'Masterstroke

Brent Baker
May 16th, 2009 10:21 PM

Thomas & Totenberg Excuse Pelosi; Thomas Hopes 'Moderate' Will Save GO

Brent Baker
May 16th, 2009 2:48 PM

CBS and NBC Spike Panetta's Rejection of Pelosi's Smear of the CIA

Brent Baker
May 15th, 2009 9:21 PM

Chrysler Closes 789 Dealerships, Yet ABC, CBS and NBC All Feature Same

Brent Baker
May 15th, 2009 10:54 AM

ABC Channels Those Who See GOP as Limbaugh-Cheney 'Freak Show

Brent Baker
May 14th, 2009 11:45 AM

Downbeat Spin from NY Times: World Ends, Minorities Hardest Hit

Brent Baker
May 14th, 2009 2:57 AM

On FX's 'Rescue Me,' Journalist Frets U.S. Failed to Heed France's Adv

Brent Baker
May 13th, 2009 2:55 AM

Koppel: 'Enhanced Interrogation Technique' Like 'Rape Is an Enhanced S

Brent Baker
May 12th, 2009 3:48 AM

Letterman Writer Boasts of Discrediting McCain, Obama 'Too Competent

Brent Baker
May 10th, 2009 4:11 PM

Cheney on Powell vs. Limbaugh: 'I'd Go with Rush Limbaugh

Brent Baker
May 10th, 2009 12:25 PM

Time Mag on GOP: 'Extremely Conservative Ideas' for 'Extremely Conserv

Brent Baker
May 9th, 2009 3:32 PM

You Read It Here First: Hannity Cites NewsBusters on Revolving Door

Brent Baker
May 8th, 2009 2:02 AM

NBC and Newsweek Liken Obama to Spock: Both Victims of Prejudice

Brent Baker
May 7th, 2009 9:06 PM

NBC: 'Quintessential Obama' Doctrine of Talking Leads to Hug

Brent Baker
May 7th, 2009 2:32 AM

Third CNN Staffer Joins Obama's Team, As Does ABC Vet; Revolving Door

Brent Baker
May 6th, 2009 1:11 AM

Williams Recommends Liberal Reading List on Souter and Successor

Brent Baker
May 5th, 2009 1:48 PM

NBC Uses Kemp Obit to Tout Obama's Election as Proof U.S. a 'Great' Na

Brent Baker
May 5th, 2009 12:46 AM