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

Even Bedtime Stories Get Profane

The mass-marketing of profanity just won't stop. Now's it topping the best-selling book list - in children's picture books.

Palin Movie vs. Media Mythology

The maker of a new documentary on Sarah Palin is so optimistic that he aims to win over the liberal media.

Playing Hardball on Softball

A gay softball league insists that "inclusion" has its limits: they need to throw out the "straight ringers" who are ruining their games.

Liberalism Lite With Ann Curry

Who will be the public face of soft and marshmallowy News Lite in Liberal Land now that Katie Couric's gone? Try new NBC Today co-host Ann Curry.

Viacom's Endless Violations

In the midst of Weinergate, MTV worked overtime to make crotch-grabbing just another acceptable part of the cultural scenery.

CMI Commentary: Viacom's Endless Violations

MTV Movie Awards stoop to new low

Bozell column: Media Go Leaner on Weiner

The networks piled 152 stories on Rep. Mark Foley, but the Old Media were clearly slow to jump on the Anthony Weiner story.

Exposing the Hollywood 'Clique'

Ben Shapiro's new book has interviews with a bevy of Hollywood players and exposes a political and cultural revolution of permissive leftism.

Commentary: Exposing the Hollywood 'Clique'

Tinseltown Executives Admit Liberal Bias

Here Comes the Ailes Haters

Two long new magazine "exposes" have attempted to demonize Fox News chief Roger Ailes and his allegedly brain-dead minions as the antithesis of good journalism.

Here Comes the Ailes Haters

Two long new magazine exposes have attempted to demonize Fox News chief Roger Ailes and his allegedly brain-dead minions as the antithesis of good journalism.

Exploiting Domestic Violence

There simply aren't enough people questioning why pop princess Rihanna has repeatedly put out a string of please-hurt-me songs over the last two years, since she left the violent embrace of pop ...

Even Bedtime Stories Get Profane

The mass-marketing of profanity just won't stop. Now's it topping the best-selling book list in children's picture books.

No One May Lecture Obama

Reporters took offense when Israel's president talked to Barack Obama "like a school boy." But they weren't offended when a reporter threw a shoe at President Bush.

ABC's Partial-Birth Hero

It's bad enough that ABC's "Private Practice" cast a partial-birth abortionist as a hero. It's worse that her "pro-life" friend so easily collapses into a supportive hand-holder as a baby is ...

CNN's Obama Adviser

Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN's Sunday show Fareed Zakaria GPS, boasted of his access in advising the president on foreign affairs. Neither he nor CNN found this compromised their journalistic ...

CNN's Obama Adviser

Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN's Sunday show Fareed Zakaria GPS, boasted of his access in advising the president on foreign affairs. Neither he nor CNN found this compromised their journalistic ...

"Common" Nonsense

The rapper known as "Common" was invited to spout poetry before the president and First Lady. Celebrating cop killers is not being honored at the People's House.

Bozell Column: Fact-Challenged Ed Schultz

Ed Schultz doesn't just have a civility problem on television. He has an honesty problem. Remarkably untrue statements just flow out of his mouth.

Bozell Column: Osama's Controversial Aftermath

We don't need to release a photo of Osama bin Laden. It won't please the conspiracy theorists. But why aren't the "freedom of the press" groups going nuclear over Obama's (correct) decision?