Steve Baker, on the Jan. 6 Front Lines and in the DOJ’s Crosshairs
The defendant, who captured dramatic video on Jan. 6, is charged with four federal misdemeanors. Just who qualifies as a journalist on Jan. 6—and who decides?
Steve Baker, now a writer with Blaze Media, is one of at least nine right-leaning journalists and live-streamers prosecuted by the Department of Justice for their presence on Jan. 6, 2021. Bobby Sanchez for The Epoch Times
Politics and journalism have had a nagging way of becoming intertwined during Steve Baker’s 45 years of adult life.
As an idealistic 20-something in the early 1980s, he wanted to run for mayor of his hometown—Shreveport, Louisiana—a place with a storied history of political and judicial corruption.
