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
10/31/2009 8:21 AM ET
A new study shows CBS, NBC, and Fox (but not ABC) all green-lighted a significant increase in the incidents and degree of violence against women.
10/27/2009 10:23 PM ET
A Washington Post poll suggests a new low for Republicans, causing the media to once again champion moderates in the party. But polls show solid gains for conservatives since Obama took office.
10/24/2009 9:21 AM ET
Our culture has an increasingly sickening blur between reality and "reality" TV. People aspiring to "reality" stardom can be a very desperate group.
10/20/2009 2:00 PM ET
Rush Limbaugh was convicted of racism in a kangaroo court of "objective" media. The White House is waging war on Fox News. The alternative media is under attack, and the Left wants only "news" ...
10/17/2009 8:30 AM ET
MTV programmers target viewers 12 to 34 - as if there's no difference in maturity level between 12 and 34. Case in point: a "True Life" documentary marathon in prime time on overtly sexual themes.
10/13/2009 11:39 AM ET
The media were shocked when Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But why would the media be stunned, when the Norwegians are acting just like the media: praising Obama far beyond his actual job ...
10/9/2009 5:25 PM ET
Like Roman Polanski, the entertainment world came to the defense of David Letterman when his habit of having sex with subordinates surfaced. Hailed as a comic mind for the ages, he was awarded a ...
10/6/2009 8:45 PM ET
Conservative cheering and laughing over the losing Chicago bid for the Olympics wasn't hate for America. It was rejoicing for a come-uppance for the massive, media-enabled egomania of the Obamas.
10/1/2009 11:32 AM ET
When film director Roman Polanski was taken into custody for his rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977, morally bankrupt libertines in Hollywood and other artistic banana republics rushed to his defense.
9/30/2009 12:00 AM ET
Liberals suggest that conservative anger might lead to violence, but conservative protests are happy and lawful, while left-wing protests draw hundreds of arrests for violence and property ...
9/29/2009 9:34 PM ET
Liberals suggest that conservative anger might lead to violence, but conservative protests are happy and lawful, while left-wing protests draw hundreds of arrests for violence and property ...
9/25/2009 10:08 PM ET
Nickelodeon is starting prime time with "Glenn Martin DDS," a sleazy cartoon. They're even boasting of how they're succeeding in keeping 2- to 11-year-olds glued to the set...for orgasm jokes and ...
9/22/2009 9:32 PM ET
While President Obama spread himself thin across the Sunday talk show lineup, ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC all skipped some of the most urgent and newsworthy topics.
9/18/2009 1:24 PM ET
The fury of Serena Williams and Kanye West far outdid the two-word yell of Rep. Joe Wilson in rudeness. But entertainers are held to a lower standard.
9/18/2009 12:00 AM ET
It's time networks were held responsible for the outrages for their stars.
9/15/2009 4:53 PM ET
The media treated the 9/12 rally as a menacing surge of white anger, meanness, and racism. It illustrates one nagging truth for media liberals: they really don't think conservatives should be ...
9/14/2009 12:00 AM ET
Raunchy 'entertainment' is only a click away.
9/12/2009 5:56 AM ET
Shows like these routinely make you wonder why the cable companies can't offer parents the option to reject the sleaziest corners of cable TV.
9/8/2009 9:28 PM ET
Anyone who dares oppose Barack Obama is described by the media as crazy, or racist, or even hoping Obama is killed. NBC's anchor decried a "hyperpartisan era of vocal and instant outrage."
9/4/2009 9:44 PM ET
Just when you would write off Hollywood, there are movies in the works that treat religion seriously - and a serious religious conversion, too.
