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
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Obama and the Callous Kanye Culture

Egotistical musicians often exaggerate their political influence, none moreso than the nattering, narcissistic rapper Kanye West. Rolling Stone magazine has posted part of a West song titled “I ...
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Obama, Less Tyrannical than Bush?

The unfolding story of the Obama administration monitoring not just telephone records but Internet usage has drawn media coverage with adjectives like “astonishing.” Still, it is laughable ...
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Guns and Grade-School Panic

The specter of school shootings has brought a too-typical staple to local newspaper sections: the boys disciplined at (or suspended from) grade school for bringing a toy gun or anything ...
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Where's Holder on Team Obama's Leakers?

It is more important to help Obama overcome the legacy-strangling notion of an “atmosphere of scandal” than for reporters to investigate a scandal that's strangling their profession.
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Viewing Cultural Collapse at Cannes

At film festivals, artistic judgments about cinematic achievements are strongly seasoned by the secular-left politics of moviemakers and their constant desire to “push the envelope."
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One Man's Fascination With Hitler

A new book is out. It explores recently uncovered diaries kept by a young man who would become very powerful and famous. The journal entries document his fascination with Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
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The 'Assassinate Wall Street' Movie

A new movie suggests that the Occupy Wall Street movement was for sissies. It’s time for someone to start a new campaign on film: Assassinate Wall Street.
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Obama and 'Overreach'

Once again, some journalists are letting spin overtake the facts, replacing the search for truth with a search for "Republican overreach."
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'Progress' Gets Cancelled

Activists counted 11 cancelled shows that featured regular gay characters. That bothersome thing called the market: why must it get in the way!
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Obama's Legacy? Scandal

Obama is not a “victim” of a “second-term curse.” This is the corrupt first term beginning to smell, and even the media cannot deny the odor of malfeasance.
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Free Speech for Conservative Students?

It's becoming impossible to express a socially conservative or Christian viewpoint – as a student. Try to say the G-word or oppose abortion, and watch someone lower the boom.
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Ted Cruz Has All the Right Enemies

Few people try to paint Sen. Ted Cruz as a lightweight -- except the lightweights.
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P.C. and the NBA

After NBA journeyman Jason Collins announced "I'm black and I'm gay," can a sports reporter keep his job if he speaks of his Bible-based beliefs?
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Skipping 'Controversial Stings' of the Left

The networks adore hidden-camera stories when the targets are conservative. But when liberals get caught on tape, the spike comes out.
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Hollywood and Post-Boston 'Xenophobia'

A new movie takes on American "Islamophobia." All that matters to Hollywood is that they can parade their moral superiority over those who make them wealthy at the box office. 
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Remembering Howard Phillips

It is a sad commentary on conservatives’ sense of their own history that many may not know the name Howard Phillips. As part of the "New Right," he helped create the conservative movement ...
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The Media Lobbyists Lose on Guns

Journalists can't admit the liberal defeat on gun control underlines Obama's weakness -- because it underlines their weakness as well.
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Coming Up Short On Dr. Gosnell

The abortion agenda is so fierce, so militant, so extreme within journalism ranks anything that challenges the practice is suppressed.
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Who's More Demeaning Than Brad Paisley?

NPR and other culture commissars groaned that Brad Paisley would attempt a song about racial harmony. They prefer the gangsta-rap glorification of black-on-black "murder sprees."
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Remembering (and Forgetting) Thatcher

Oh, how American liberals disliked British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when she was in power and in Ronald Reagan's mold.