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
5/14/2009 3:47 PM ET
The Washington Post music critic (named Josh Freedom du Lac) isn't wild about freedom-loving country music songs.
5/13/2009 3:44 PM ET
The raucous sound of applause for President Obama when he spoke at the White House Correspondents Dinner underlined what could be the news media's motto: "You had us at Hello."
5/8/2009 9:59 AM ET
The Supreme Court ruled on the case of ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox all suing the federal government for the right to drop F-bombs and S-bombs on young children.
5/8/2009 12:00 AM ET
Curse words not news when networks lose.
5/6/2009 9:57 AM ET
The other day, when Specter's pollster apparently told him he was going to lose to Toomey in a rematch, he promptly chucked that blather about his courage and conviction and narrowed his thinking ...
5/4/2009 12:00 AM ET
Movie watchers are going to think large chunks of Ron Howard's Angels and Demons are actual human history, and the trailer has no disclaimer about how this scientist-murdering-church narrative is ...
4/30/2009 9:54 AM ET
When the conglomerates behind the viciously anti-Catholic book "The DaVinci Code" were looking for a director, Newsweek reported Ron Howard had a secret weapon: his aw-shucks child-star Opie ...
4/29/2009 9:48 AM ET
There's something very curious - even laughable - about watching the media assemble to offer President Obama a grade after the first 100 days.
4/29/2009 12:00 AM ET
Three months have made zero difference in the major media's ardor.
4/27/2009 9:40 AM ET
The latest Miss USA pageant on NBC illustrated that beauty pageants are becoming a dangerous culture-war mine field.
4/21/2009 9:23 AM ET
Of all the bizarre fictions that the media have spread about Barack Obama, the strangest is that's he non-ideological.
4/21/2009 12:00 AM ET
Defending the United States takes a back seat to proving he is non-ideological.
4/17/2009 9:19 AM ET
Ever since he left real radio in favor of the satellite kind, Howard Stern and his faded Dirty Old Man strip-club radio act have been invisible. But now, some people are apparently trying to match ...
4/14/2009 4:24 AM ET
Newsweek greeted the coming of Easter with a black cover, and the headline "The Decline and Fall of Christian America," spelled out in red in the shape of a cross.
4/9/2009 8:26 AM ET
Our cosmopolitan elites have embraced the smutty Fox cartoon "Family Guy." Perhaps it was NPR's way of welcoming in an Obama appointee who everyone expects will "lighten up."
4/7/2009 11:33 AM ET
Imagine being Laura Bush and turning on the television and watching the absolute deluge of sticky-sweet syrup being poured all over Michelle Obama during her European debut as First Lady.
4/6/2009 4:24 AM ET
Lent is a season of sacrifice and repentance. Most commonly, the discussion of Lenten commitments revolves around our obesity problem, sounding like a recommitment to already dissolved New Year's ...
4/6/2009 4:10 AM ET
As Gov. Bobby Jindal began to offer a Republican response, it became apparent that he would be no match with Barack Obama in the soaring-oratory department.
4/6/2009 4:04 AM ET
Everyone who enjoys NFL football games knows they're going to be sitting through an avalanche of those awkward ads for erectile-dysfunction drugs, and ads soaked in sex and violence selling new ...
4/3/2009 8:06 AM ET
When MTV creates hazardous waste on television, there is no Superfund cleanup program. Worse still, sometimes their toxic programs end up getting recycled by desperate executives eager for a ...
