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

An Angry Anti-Christmas At School

Many of our schools have church-and-state sensitivity police with an alarming degree of Santaphobia. But some schools have no sensitivity to putting vicious anti-Christian propaganda on stage in ...

Bozell Column: The Year of Right Wing Terrorists?

MRC's Best of Notable Quotables collection underlines that the media are advancing some red-hot incendiary hatred of conservatives - like they are rhetorical enablers of violence, or even terrorists.

Exploiting the Teen Temptress

Studies find the trend is well-established - the marketing of teenaged temptresses for much older men. The TV networks are more likely to show female children in sexual activity than female adults.

Barbara Walters vs. Sarah Palin

The ABC diva pushed Palin as "scary" and uninformed - but offered the Obamas more promotinal goo on Thanksgiving night. To her credit, Palin pushed back.

The Diseases of Pornography

A 24-year-old man signs up for the porn business, and quickly contracts four sexually transmitted diseases - including the HIV virus. Where are the "safe sex" promoters?

Assange's Media Allies

Julian Assange, the radical mastermind of "WikiLeaks," is described by our media as an "idealist," even as he plots to paralyze our government's effectiveness with leaks. The media say it's not ...

Shock Art and 'Social Dignity'

How many times must we relive the foolishness of art curators being "shocked" that people don't like paying for art that attacks Jesus and Christians?

Bozell Column: Glorifying 'Great' Liberal Judges

CBS aired a thoroughly one-sided tribute to liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, while NPR celebrated the late ultraliberal Justice William Brennan.

Gender Benders Wage War on Sports

No one seems to have any courage to question the war on reality waged by "transgender" activists as they take their crusade for gender denial and self-mutilation to the world of school sports.

Bozell Column: Resisting the Bush Book

The media's hate-hate relationship with George W. Bush continued with the release of his memoir. ABC petulantly ignored it. CBS and NBC hammered him again on Hurricane Katrina.

The Vast Child-Fattening Conspiracy

The social libertines aren't permissive about everything. In San Francisco, they're banning Happy Meal toys because the food isn't healthy enough. Bake sales and Pepsi are under forceful attack.

Bozell Column: More of the Same in 2011

Liberals show no signs of moving to the center, and the liberal media will keep raining fire on the Tea Party and proposed spending cuts in the year to come.

Losing Your Head at the Supreme Court

If video-game makers have their way, the Constitution will protect the right of grade-school kids to graphically rip off the heads of people on Sony's PlayStation 3.

Bozell Column: Obama Failed to Communicate?

This has to be the most ridiculous spin to emerge to explain the Why the Republicans Massacred Us question: Obama didn't communicate his "accomplishments."

'Glee' and 'Gentlemen'

A sleazy photo shoot for GQ magazine backfired on Fox's "Glee," with even Katie Couric voting thumbs-down. But Lawrence O'Donnell said I started a "cult."

Bozell Column: NPR's Religion Double Standard

NPR said Juan Williams' comments about "Muslim garb" were a firing offense, but they can be as insulting as they want toward Christians, and no one gets punished.

Shock and Awful Art

Another tiresome rerun of taxpayer-funded blasphemy: Jesus in urine, Jesus in chocolate, and now Jesus in (homo)sexual ecstasy.

Bozell Column: Nearly Invisible Harry Reid

While reporters rush to report the latest "wacky" quote from Sharron Angle, the networks haven't lifted a finger to cover Harry Reid's cascade of rhetorical stumbles and outrages. Why is he absent ...

Parents vs. "Public Health"

Parents in D.C. were stunned to find their 12-year-olds were asked if they were "transgender," if they "would know where to get condoms," and if they used cocaine or heroin.

Bozell Column: Obama, Now Bashing Foreigners

Obama's now stooped to accusing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of being a tool of foreign operatives. He doesn't produce any evidence to make the charge; but since when has this stopped him?