L. Brent Bozell III

Founder and President

 

Lecturer, syndicated columnist, television commentator, debater, marketer, businessman, author, publisher and activist, L. Brent Bozell III is one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today.

Founder and President of the Media Research Center, Mr. Bozell runs the largest media watchdog organization in America. Since its launch in 1987, the MRC has developed the largest video archive in the world; the popular NewsBusters.org blog site; the CNSNews.com internet news service; MRC Business; MRC Culture; and in April of 2014 launched MRC Latino. The MRC has over 800,000 members nationwide, with over 9 million fans on Facebook.

In 2010, Mr. Bozell founded ForAmerica, an organization committed to restoring America to its founding principles. ForAmerica has grown to over 7 million Facebook followers making it the largest social media organization in the conservative movement. It has also registered twice as Facebook’s most engaged group on its platform. In 1998, Mr. Bozell founded and was the first president of the Parents Television Council, the largest group in America dedicated to a restoring responsibility to Hollywood. He founded the Conservative Victory Committee PAC in 1987. Before founding the MRC, Mr. Bozell was the finance director and later the president of the National Conservative Political Action Committee.

Mr. Bozell's bi-weekly column is syndicated by Creators Syndicate to over 50 media outlets nationwide. His writings have also appeared in numerous other outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, FoxNews.com and USA Today. He is the author of four books, including And That’s the Way It Is(n’t) (with Brent Baker), Weapons of Mass Distortion, and Whitewash (with Tim Graham). His most recent book, Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election (with Tim Graham), was a national bestseller and named by USA Today as one of the “5 must-read books about the Obama-Romney race.” 

He has been a guest on numerous television programs, including the O'Reilly Factor, Nightline, The Today Show and Good Morning America. He appeared weekly on the "Media Mash" segment of Hannity, on the Fox News Channel, as well as regular appearances on The Kelly File, Your World with Neil Cavuto and Varney & Co

Named the 1998 Pew Memorial Lecturer by Grove City College, Mr. Bozell is a frequent speaker on school campuses and for civic and political organizations around the country. Mr. Bozell serves on numerous boards of public policy, religious and artistic organizations.

Mr. Bozell received his B.A. in History from the University of Dallas, where he was named the 1998 Alumnus of the Year. In 2015 he received an honorary PhD after delivering the commencement address there. He is married, with five children and ten grandchildren.


Author Articles

Kicking Rush When He's Down

After their nastiness in the hours after Rush Limbaugh went into the hospital with chest pains, I don't ever want to hear another sermon from liberals about "civility" or "hate," or "the politics ...

Cultural Winners and Losers, 2009

It was a great year for "Up" and other animated movies. It was not a great year for "Bruno" or Michael Moore.

The "Stimulus" Picture Crumbled

Obama's economic gurus told the country that a massive "stimulus" of government spending was needed so unemployment would stay below eight percent. It's now ten percent, but no anchors are wagging ...

Deconstructing Christmas

Christmas is that time of year when school children gather together to celebrate - well, Star Wars, West Side Story, and Michael Jackson.

A Year of Obama Love

Ardor for Obama dominated the Best Notable Quotables competition of 2009. The public is no longer amazed, but the media's thrills continue.

TV and the Soft Eshoo Bill

What gives Congress the right to interfere with the volume of TV commercials when they inherently flee from the proposition that they have an obligation to enforce existing broadcast decency laws?

Volume Knob Politics

TV and the soft Eshoo bill.

Preferring Liberals In Both Parties

Any Republican with the "courage" of his liberal convictions is a "maverick" to be saluted. Any Democrat or independent who dares question Obama's socialist agenda is a traitor.

Frosty the Pervert

CBS ruins "Frosty the Snowman" nostalgia with a porny Internet promotion. Why do the sickos in Hollywood have to put their whips and chains and sordid brains all over every last acre of innocence?

Climate Skeptics Need Mental Help?

Falling poll numbers for the notion of man-made global warming is causing media liberals to grow pessimistic about a public that is becoming "collectively irrational."

Degrading 'Degrassi'

Nickelodeon airs all kinds of child-friendly programming - but one series on Teen Nick is deliberately pushing the gay agenda to youngsters.

Clubbing Navy SEALs

Our national media will not report that three Navy SEALs are being prosecuted for capturing a terrorist. The terrorist claims he was punched after he was captured. Almost no one besides Fox News ...

Ridiculous Idol Excuses

When a male singer kisses another man and simulates oral sex on national television, it's ridiculous to suggest that none of this was planned, that it was just a spontaneous event.

When the Press Favors Secrecy

The New York Times has no trouble reproducing damaging documents not meant for the public eye when the subject is national security - but not when the documents embarrass the "scientific experts" ...

Words for Potent Jerks

Bloggers and Internet gossips complained when the New York Times lowered itself to question a nasty new word emerging in prime-time television: "douche."

Seeing Moral Grays In 9/11

The Sunday Washington Post carried a headline that claimed that 9/11 "could" be right or it "could" be wrong. It's grotesque for a newspaper to find neutrality on that horrific day.

Group Sex on "Gossip Girl"

A show aimed at teenagers from the struggling CW channel tries to mine ratings from a threesome plot.

Fort Hood Horror

First, anchormen didn't want to say the shooter was Muslim. Then they insisted there were also "Christian nuts." And then some asked: wasn't all this the Army's fault?

A Stomach Ache for Our Sponsors

When Microsoft backed out of sole sponsorship of a raunchy live special from the makers of "Family Guy," it showed that sponsors don't want to be held accountable for subsidizing raunchy content. ...

The Dede Media

The Republicans are in a "civil war," on a "disastrous turn toward extremism." But when Democrats embraced hard-core leftists like Ned Lamont, it was an "opportunity" and revenge of the "moderates."