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
6/30/2009 5:16 PM ET
When Michael Jackson suddenly died, the TV mourning overflowed, but no one asked: Was he a good man? Farrah Fawcett died the same day, demonstrating how celebrity can be used to help others. In ...
6/26/2009 11:54 AM ET
Showtime's new series "Nurse Jackie" is a noxious brew of drugs, adultery, lying, thieving, and anti-religious sentiment. But The New Yorker squealed it "actually tastes good."
6/25/2009 12:00 AM ET
We're the domestic terrorists?
6/23/2009 9:13 AM ET
PBS banned stations from "proselytizing" for religion, but the PBS show "Now" hailed late-term abortionists as saviors and martyrs, while pro-life activists were smeared as terrorists.
6/19/2009 4:06 PM ET
Pornographers of all kinds exploit YouTube to drive traffic to their sites and products. Isn't that a problem when YouTube's a very popular website with America's children?
6/16/2009 5:17 PM ET
While the government estimates another nine trillion dollars will be added to the national debt this decade, ABC's setting aside an hour in prime time to sell an Obama health care plan that could ...
6/15/2009 12:00 AM ET
Senators must not ignore broadcast indecency during during confirmation hearings for FCC chairman.
6/12/2009 8:58 PM ET
Senators need to question Obama's FCC chairman nominee Julius Genachowski about whether the president intends to offer more than lip service on televised indecency.
6/9/2009 4:20 PM ET
Even a Supreme Court stay of the Chrysler sale to Fiat didn't jolt the networks into broadcasting the complaint that President Obama is unleashing a legally reckless and arguably unconstitutional ...
6/8/2009 12:00 AM ET
The only surprise for the network was that people were more outraged than they expected.
6/5/2009 8:48 PM ET
MTV offered a shameless stunt, complete with comedian Sacha Baron Cohen putting his bare buttocks right in the face of rapper Eminem. MTV then admitted this disaster was staged.
6/4/2009 12:00 AM ET
The prop-abortion media is willing to smear the pro-life movement with the mud of the militia movement or al-Qaeda if it will enable their cause.
6/2/2009 5:24 PM ET
Pro-life groups issued press releases decrying the murder of abortionist George Tiller. But the media used this crime to smear pro-lifers for "incitement to murder and terrorism" with their rhetoric.
5/29/2009 12:00 AM ET
Family unity or sanity be damned. TLC has a hit on its hands with 'Jon and Kate Plus 8.'
5/28/2009 9:00 PM ET
On Memorial Day, it would have been nice if the top-rated show was PBS's concert paying patriotic tribute to our brave fighting men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
5/26/2009 4:21 PM ET
After packaging him as an evil mix of Darth Vader and the Ebola virus, network stars have fits that Dick Cheney dares to speak against Obama.
5/22/2009 12:00 AM ET
Hollywood's business decisions show where their religious and political sensibilities overrule their business sense – and any sense of right and wrong.
5/21/2009 4:23 PM ET
Danish director Lars von Trier shocked the Cannes film festival with a "torture porn" movie called "Antichrist." Hollywood snapped it up - unlike another violent new movie about a woman stoned by ...
5/20/2009 7:53 AM ET
President Obama came to the campus of Notre Dame armed with all his usual arrogance. Despite his radical abortion record, he posed as the national moderator of "common ground."
5/18/2009 12:00 AM ET
WaPo music critic worries country music artists 'close ranks.'
