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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Farewell to Hollywood's Favorite Bureaucrat

In his four years at the helm, the FCC hasn’t issued one fine to Hollywood for indecent content on broadcast television. Now there’s a legacy.
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Conservatives Shouldn't Own Newspapers?

Liberals define newspapers by ideological standards: "news" must be anti-Tea Party, anti-Big Oil, and pro-union. Conservatives shouldn't own them.
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Gay and Godless on the Public School Stage

A public school can't perform a play that reverently recreates the Old Testament...but it can perform a play that mocks it mercilessly.
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Skipping An Abortionist's 'House of Horrors'

The networks could muster 96 stories of outrage for a Todd Akin statement on abortion, but can't report a single story on the outrageous actions of an abortionist.
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Still Shooting It Up On TV

Nothing could be sillier than the notion that Hollywood's "fulfilled a promise" to solve our society's violence problem. They had a phony-baloney meeting with Joe Biden and made phony-baloney ...
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Losing Patience With the Pope

Despite the winning ways of the new pope, the secular liberal nastiness of the press still bubbled up in demands for more "tolerance" and women's liberation.
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'No Holds Barred' Obama Questions?

Laugh at ABC when they suggest George Stephanopoulos will have a "no holds barred" interview with Barack Obama. What would tough questions look like?
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Mourning 'Populist' Hugo Chavez

To our left-wing media, at death, Chile's right-wing despot Pinochet “cheated the hangman,” while left-wing despot Hugo Chavez resembled Jesus Christ.
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ABC's Porn Pinup for Teenage Girls

Sometimes it’s hard to measure the distance between the supposedly establishment, respectable press and the seediest corners of hardcore pornography. Take "James Deen."
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Spare the Hype of 'Budget Armageddon'

Armageddon! Asteroids headed for Earth! Put another quarter in the panic jukebox. Obama's willing press enablers put sequester hype into heavy rotation.
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"Dialogue" Required for Violent Video Games

After Newtown, politicians like Obama have singled out the gun makers and gone soft on their entertainment-industry campaign donors.
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The Media's Republican Latinophobia

Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz take a pounding from liberal journalists. The kid-gloves treatment of Sen. Robert Menendez suggests they should see the green grass on other side.
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HBO Hates Popes, Loves Kennedys

This is the big picture of morally upside-down HBO: Pope Benedict is portrayed as a vicious crook, but Ted Kennedy and his brothers are secular saints.
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Conservatism, Killing the GOP?

The liberal media insist conservative "core principles" will cause the Republicans to "cease to be a national party." They're really seeking to remove all obstacles for Obama.
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Doubling Down on Anti-Gun News

An MRC study of the very slanted network news coverage after Newtown shows their O word isn't "objective." It's "opportunistic."
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Karl Rove vs. the "Far Right"

The New York Times announces Rove is for "conservative victory"? This isn’t even attempted by those who were never conservatives to begin with.
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The Abortionist Saints of Sundance

A hot documentary at the liberal Sundance Film Festival was "After Tiller," which celebrates four "amazing" late-term abortionists and insists that pro-lifers are the dangerous people.
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No "Playing Gotcha" With Obama

In interviewing President Obama and Hillary Clinton, CBS reporter Steve Kroft proved why the CEO of CBS said "partisanship is very much a part of journalism now."
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The Teenage Horror of 'Parenthood'

An NBC drama presented two teenagers as "saving" their future by getting an abortion at Planned Parenthood -- which called it a “refreshing” episode about “the real issues teens face.”
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Obama 'Cements His Legacy'

Reporters have formed a consensus. They want Obama to stop being a "punchee" and start "pulverizing" the conservatives.