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Lecturer, syndicated columnist, television commentator, debater, marketer, businessman, author, publisher and activist, L. Brent Bozell III, 54, 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. Established in 1987, the MRC has made “media bias” a household term, tracking it daily and printing the compiled evidence biweekly in its well-known Notable Quotables, as well as the daily CyberAlert intelligence report on the internet. His most recent book, Whitewash: What the Media Won’t Tell You About Hillary Clinton, but Conservatives Will, was released in November of 2007. His previous book, Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media, was released in July of 2004.
Founder and former President of the Parents Television Council, Mr. Bozell established the largest Hollywood-based organization dedicated to restoring responsibility to the entertainment industry.
Mr. Bozell is a nationally syndicated columnist whose work appears in publications such as Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The New York Post, The L.A. Times, Investors Business Daily and National Review. He is regularly invited to provide media expertise on news programs by all the major networks and cable affiliates.
He is married, with five children and four grandchildren.
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Brent Bozell (Dec 30, 2011)
Profanity and pop music go hand in hand these days. The pop star Rihanna recently appeared on the British version of Simon Cowell's singing competition "The X... more
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Brent Bozell (Dec 28, 2011)
For those Republican presidential candidates who eventually conclude there is no path to the nomination, there is consolation in the notion that they won't be the ones... more
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Brent Bozell (Dec 23, 2011)
The depravity of our popular culture and our eagerness to shred traditional values manifests itself every day. Lady Gaga, the top-earning woman in the music... more
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Brent Bozell (Dec 21, 2011)
In 2008, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. At that time, it wasn't hard to imagine the Swedes were rewarding Krugman for eight... more
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Brent Bozell (Dec 16, 2011)
In this special season of giving, Hollywood is willing to give people what entertainment executives think the country needs: a vicious, bloody takedown of Christmas. The Dec.... more
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Brent Bozell (Dec 14, 2011)
The media elite and the Republican ruling class are remarkably similar in their political projection for the coming year. Journalists spent the entire year savaging every... more
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Brent Bozell (Dec 10, 2011)
Once upon a time, women were considered the "fairer sex," the "better half." Stewardesses were talented and beautiful. Wives were softer and gentler. Men fought for their... more
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Brent Bozell (Dec 07, 2011)
Time magazine didn't mind ruffling feathers in religious America with a cover this summer that asked "Is Hell Dead?" Never mind that America is overwhelmingly Christian. Then... more
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Brent Bozell (Dec 02, 2011)
The Hollywood elite's concern for the children stops at the water's edge of physical fitness. They simply do not touch the subject of moral fitness. On The Huffington Post,... more
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Brent Bozell (Nov 30, 2011)
From the breaking news, one might think that with a woman who claims she had a 13-year affair with presidential candidate Herman Cain, someone is being seriously exposed... more
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Brent Bozell (Nov 25, 2011)
The culture of Hollywood has just been beautifully defined by two awards-show decisions. The first one was Brett Ratner being dumped as the director of ABCs Oscars telecast... more
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Brent Bozell (Nov 23, 2011)
After the national media spent the month of October chronicling the "historic" Occupy Wall Street protesters in what Diane Sawyer bizarrely blurted out as happening in "more... more
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Brent Bozell (Nov 18, 2011)
In advance of Tinseltown's parade of Christmas insensitivities -- they've already unloaded the marijuana movie "A Very Harold and Kumar 3-D Christmas" --... more
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Brent Bozell (Nov 16, 2011)
National Public Radio proved a long time ago it disdains black conservatives. Remember when NPR's Nina Totenberg launched the unproven sexual harassment charges against... more
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Brent Bozell (Nov 11, 2011)
In Hollywood, the only truly serious sexual disease is virginity. It's a dire and embarrassing condition, desperately in need of elimination. Teenagers that still have... more
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Brent Bozell (Nov 09, 2011)
With a swoosh, the Gulfstream 550 is effortlessly launched into the heavens for the hour-long slingshot from Dallas to Stillwater, the sleek jet headed for Oklahoma State... more
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Brent Bozell (Nov 04, 2011)
No one who followed politics 20 years ago will forget the night when Clarence Thomas sent an electric charge through a Senate hearing room. As liberal Democrats pushed the... more
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Brent Bozell (Nov 02, 2011)
NBC anchor Brian Williams, in the argot of the moment, certainly belongs to "The One Percent." He lives in the glass-encased Bloomberg Tower in mid-town Manhattan, 34 stories... more
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Brent Bozell (Oct 28, 2011)
Those prestigious publishers at Simon and Schuster selected All Saints Day to unleash the book world's latest attempt at mocking Christianity. It's called... more
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Brent Bozell (Oct 26, 2011)
National Public Radio continues to define itself in every way as a taxpayer-funded nest of leftism. NPR couldn't just supportively report on the Occupy Wall Street protests.... more
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Brent Bozell (Oct 21, 2011)
Networks hungry for viewers know the cheapest way to nab eyeballs is to produce a "reality show" with no stars and often uber-sleazy,... more
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Brent Bozell (Oct 19, 2011)
Walter Cronkite's longtime producer Leslie Midgley once wrote that, "News is what an editor decides it is." News today is what TV producers decide can help President Obama.... more
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Brent Bozell (Oct 14, 2011)
Say the name Emilio Estevez and most people think of the "Brat Pack," when he was a star in popular '80s youth movies like "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire," or... more
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Brent Bozell (Oct 12, 2011)
When the Tea Party movement erupted in the spring of 2009, the media elites dismissed them as corporate-generated "Astroturf" noise. They found them barely worth covering,... more
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Brent Bozell (Oct 07, 2011)
NBC President Robert Greenblatt was really committed to the new drama "The Playboy Club" just weeks ago. "What it has going for it is a recognizable brand... more
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Brent Bozell (Oct 05, 2011)
Is there a clumsier group of newspaper character assassins than the hit squads at The Washington Post? On Oct. 1, the Post was back on the racist-Republican attack with a... more
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Brent Bozell (Sep 30, 2011)
Back in the 1970s, there was a lot of discussion about the way TV executives were grabbing ratings with female jiggle. "T and A," it was called. The jiggle... more
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Brent Bozell (Sep 28, 2011)
No one thinks Barack Obama is sitting pretty in this race for the White House. The Real Clear Politics average of the mid-September approval-rating polls measures him at 43... more
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Brent Bozell (Sep 23, 2011)
It's easy to get nostalgic for those classic Dean Martin TV celebrity roasts. Just watch a Friars Club Roast on Comedy Central. This is not comedy; they are unremittingly... more
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Brent Bozell (Sep 21, 2011)
Twenty years ago, NBC's "Today" devoted three days of interviews to the insufferable Kitty Kelley, who unspooled baseless allegations against Nancy Reagan, like her supposed... more
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Brent Bozell (Sep 16, 2011)
People who love reality television often have a special attraction to "train wreck" shows. For two years now, the tasteless titans of the cable... more
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Brent Bozell (Sep 14, 2011)
"NBC Nightly News" is the highest-rated daily news show in the morning or evening. In mid-August, the show had been ranked No. 1 for 100 straight weeks, pulling an average... more
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Brent Bozell (Sep 09, 2011)
For Hollywood, to push America's morality buttons is a win-win proposition. When they challenge those moribund traditional values, they not only strike a blow for the sexual... more
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Brent Bozell (Sep 07, 2011)
After the mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz. of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a federal judge and other bystanders, President Obama gave one of those unite-the-divide speeches that... more
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Brent Bozell (Sep 02, 2011)
The pied pipers at MTV were certainly delighted that they attracted their largest audience ever measured for their Video Music Awards show, more than 12 million viewers. It... more
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Brent Bozell (Aug 31, 2011)
Al Sharpton's claim to fame is he has never found a crisis he couldn't exploit -- even when one doesn't exist.
On Friday's pre-hurricane episode of his... more
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Brent Bozell (Aug 26, 2011)
The ratings-hungry producers/exploiters of "reality" TV are in an ongoing search for "edgy" people who are combustibly watchable and whose lust for fame overrides any sense... more
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Brent Bozell (Aug 24, 2011)
One of the greatest perversions of statism is the use of taxpayer money to push for ever more government spending and intervention. A casual listener to the far-left end... more
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Brent Bozell (Aug 19, 2011)
A man wearing a Santa hat sits on a roof. He's talking to his ex-girlfriend on a cell phone, trying with feigned cheer to wish her a Merry Christmas. He asks if... more
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Brent Bozell (Aug 17, 2011)
In the last election cycle, we heard a lot of complaining about the sexist treatment accorded to Hillary Clinton as she campaigned for president. One magazine wrote,... more
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Brent Bozell (Aug 12, 2011)
This fall, the Showtime movie channel will air its sixth season of "Dexter," their show glorifying a just serial killer. They recently finished a fourth season... more
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Brent Bozell (Aug 10, 2011)
Just like the last Republican takeover of the House in 1995, it was easy to predict the media elite were going to dig deep into the mud and throw every smear they had at the... more
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Brent Bozell (Aug 05, 2011)
NBC has placed a new drama called "The Playboy Club" on its fall schedule to capitalize on the scandalous sound of America's most famous pornography empire. If this network... more
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Brent Bozell (Aug 03, 2011)
You can tell the liberals are really sweating the politics of the debt-ceiling talks when NBC puts on a special "Dateline NBC" devoted to politics. This is normally a time... more
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Brent Bozell (Jul 29, 2011)
They say the movie theaters make more money on popcorn, candy and soft drinks than they do on the movie tickets. If that's true, theater owners really ought to reconsider the... more
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Brent Bozell (Jul 27, 2011)
The latest polls show the people are not happy with President Obama's handling of budget matters, but Republicans look even worse. And yet, while the GOP delivers one... more
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Brent Bozell (Jul 22, 2011)
Laura Ingraham calls her newest book, "Of Thee I Zing," a "comedic intervention" on the sorry state of our popular culture. It begins with a declaration of independence from... more
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Brent Bozell (Jul 20, 2011)
On July 3, 1999, The New York Times exposed Al Gore for lying about his family in a national convention speech as vice president of the United States. In 1996, Gore moved... more
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Brent Bozell (Jul 15, 2011)
Some "reality shows" are designed to advertise wanton misbehavior and stupidity for its own sake. There's no "life lesson," just an exercise in how... more
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Brent Bozell (Jul 13, 2011)
Political prognosticator Charlie Cook appeared on National Public Radio on July 11 and summarized perfectly the media narrative on the debt-limit battle. Speaker John... more
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Brent Bozell (Jul 08, 2011)
Actor David Schwimmer, best known as the sad sack Ross Geller on the hit '90s sitcom "Friends," is now bemoaning the sex-saturated Hollywood business atmosphere and its... more
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Brent Bozell (Jul 06, 2011)
The media pandering on behalf of the Obama re-election camp already is astonishing. During the George W. Bush years, everything bad that happened in America somehow was... more
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Brent Bozell (Jun 29, 2011)
The Republican presidential contest is picking up steam. Obama is consistently polling under 50 percent. This one's a toss-up, and in the thick of it is the Fox News... more
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Brent Bozell (Jun 24, 2011)
The mass-marketing of profanity just won't stop. Now it's topping the best-selling book list -- in children's picture books. You might have heard by now that there's a... more
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Brent Bozell (Jun 22, 2011)
More than any other Republican presidential prospect, Sarah Palin draws white-hot journalistic loathing. She's too red-state, too gun-toting, too religious and too... more
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Brent Bozell (Jun 17, 2011)
Traditional organizations like the Boy Scouts of America have long been under siege by atheists and pro-gay lobbyists who insist they shouldn't have the freedom of... more
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Brent Bozell (Jun 15, 2011)
When the folks at CBS shooed Katie Couric out the door, one could almost hear the harrumph with which Scott Pelley was reinstalling the Old Regime of Ed Murrow. Unlike... more
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Brent Bozell (Jun 10, 2011)
It's so ironic that in the very midst of the Anthony Weiner Twitter scandal, television's most shameless channel, MTV, is working overtime to make any notion of sexual... more
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Brent Bozell (Jun 08, 2011)
Last July, ABC and NBC highlighted a temper tantrum from Rep. Anthony Weiner, alleging on the House floor that the Republicans were denying health care to the heroes of... more
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Brent Bozell (Jun 03, 2011)
Born blocks from the NBC soundstage in 1984 to parents in the entertainment industry, Ben Shapiro is a natural choice to write a book about Hollywood. For his new book,... more
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Brent Bozell (Jun 01, 2011)
One part of the liberal media's Obama re-election effort is well under way: trying to destroy the reputation of Fox News and its president, Roger Ailes. Two long, new... more
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Brent Bozell (May 27, 2011)
In 2009, the pop star Rihanna told ABC anchor Diane Sawyer she finally broke it off with her violent pop-star boyfriend, Chris Brown. For the children, of... more
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Brent Bozell (May 25, 2011)
When Barack Obama replaced George Bush, there was unbridled joy among the elites. The days of "cowboy diplomacy" were over! Finally, we had a president who was a... more
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Brent Bozell (May 20, 2011)
As far as I'm concerned, there's a circle in Hell reserved for late-term abortionists. But this is the Obama era, so Hollywood makes TV shows casting them as heroic figures.... more
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Brent Bozell (May 18, 2011)
EDITORS NOTE: Some language used may be offensive to some readers. As much as CNN likes to tell the public and advertisers that it's squarely in the sensible center between... more
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Brent Bozell (May 13, 2011)
The Obamas want credit for bringing American culture to the White House. When they decided to celebrate poetry at the White House on May 10, it was really not a surprise they... more
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Brent Bozell (May 11, 2011)
As much as liberals complain about conservative "misinformation" and incivility, they never seem to find it on channels like MSNBC, and we know there are small bands of... more
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Brent Bozell (May 06, 2011)
It's inevitable that the joy and national unity over the killing of that monster bin Laden would cool.Already we're debating the journalistic and political... more
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Brent Bozell (May 04, 2011)
When word emerged Sunday night that President Obama would be making remarks from the White House at 10:30 p.m., viewers knew it must be important. When it began to leak that... more
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Brent Bozell (Apr 29, 2011)
America can display a strange sexist standard on child sexual abuse. When an adult woman assaults a teenaged boy, Hollywood laughs this off as a teen dream come true. The... more
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Brent Bozell (Apr 27, 2011)
In the Bush years, poll results that showed the American people losing confidence in their president were featured routinely on the front page of major newspapers like The... more
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Brent Bozell (Apr 22, 2011)
For the Christian faithful, the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday is sacred. It's a time of reflection, prayer and fasting. It is Holy Week. It deserves the... more
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Brent Bozell (Apr 20, 2011)
Conservatives who really wanted to see at least a spending "haircut" for NPR or public broadcasting in the underwhelming budget deal for 2011 might have suggested at least... more
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Brent Bozell (Apr 15, 2011)
Delay and indecision are beginning to define the Obama administration. One matter the Obama Justice Department cannot decide is whether to file an appeal to the Supreme... more
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Brent Bozell (Apr 13, 2011)
The ominous threat of a government shutdown dominated the news last week. The media weren't wrong to cover it as a dramatic debate, but all of the hype and horror looked a... more
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Brent Bozell (Apr 08, 2011)
As the network TV barons peruse a menu of pilots for new fall shows, some just jump out of the pile. Some Tinseltown pundits have already pegged it as "likely"... more
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Brent Bozell (Apr 06, 2011)
The news leaked out Monday that Katie Couric is stepping down from her failed experiment as the anchor of the "CBS Evening News." People inside the news business greeted the... more
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Brent Bozell (Apr 01, 2011)
It's a discussion for another day as to why those entrusted with the delivery of news so stubbornly refuse to cover the very deadly war being waged at this very moment... more
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Brent Bozell (Mar 30, 2011)
Think of all the militant anti-war types who were thrilled at the removal of the Bush "war machine" in 2008, only to see President Obama's strained endorsement of military... more
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Brent Bozell (Mar 25, 2011)
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the perpetually immature creators of the filthy cartoon "South Park," have spent years delivering product sure to please high school sophomores... more
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Brent Bozell (Mar 23, 2011)
Anyone who's ever seen Jay Leno do one of his "Jaywalking" segments on NBC, locating average Americans and asking them factual questions on street corners, knows there are... more
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Brent Bozell (Mar 18, 2011)
Watching video clips of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the aftermath are, well, shocking, even to a media-overstimulated world. It almost needs a disclaimer. "These... more
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Brent Bozell (Mar 16, 2011)
In the public policy conversation today, there is nothing funnier than hearing the leadership of National Public Radio deny there's a liberal bias at play over there. Even... more
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Brent Bozell (Mar 11, 2011)
Today's installment of the Decline and Fall of Western Civilization comes from Hollywood -- as if that's a surprise. Tinseltown is demeaning Christianity again -- as if... more
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Brent Bozell (Mar 09, 2011)
On March 2, two U.S. airmen, Nicholas Alden and Zachary Cuddeback, were gunned down at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. Two other Americans were wounded. The assailant was... more
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Brent Bozell (Mar 04, 2011)
Most parents think of video games as a child's pursuit, especially the innocent ones. Many people who bought a Nintendo Wii video game system would consider this the most... more
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Brent Bozell (Mar 02, 2011)
When President Obama's budget came out in February, with the greatest expansion of federal spending in American history, some sycophantic media outlets like The Washington... more
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Brent Bozell (Feb 25, 2011)
It's so easy to look at teenagers in general today and sigh. They're more than a bit lazy, a bit spoiled and more than a bit morally compromised. Two teenagers made national... more
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Brent Bozell (Feb 23, 2011)
The battle in Madison, Wis., between new Gov. Scott Walker and the public-sector union hacks offers an amazing study in journalistic double standards. The same national media... more
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Brent Bozell (Feb 18, 2011)
The 911 call went out Jan. 27. Charlie Sheen was unconscious after another wild 36-hour bout with alcohol and drugs. People magazine reported paramedics found him... more
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Brent Bozell (Feb 16, 2011)
Jaws dropped across the nation's capital at the audacious annihilation of the truth on the front page of the Feb. 15 Washington Post. The top headline read, "Obama budget... more
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Brent Bozell (Feb 11, 2011)
The top of the pop charts has become a low, low place indeed. Just last summer, the singer Cee Lo Green took popular culture one rung lower into the sewer with the release... more
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Brent Bozell (Feb 09, 2011)
Those censorious liberals who truly hate the very existence of the Fox News Channel denounce it for being a political organization, not truly a news network. Behind that... more
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Brent Bozell (Feb 04, 2011)
It seems rather ironic that Hollywood doesn't want to make movies about Ronald Reagan. Perhaps it's because virtually no one in the industry can stand his belief system. Or... more
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Brent Bozell (Feb 02, 2011)
Is it not amazing that it's taken the news media exactly 100 years to discover that Ronald Reagan was a role model? While he lived and even after he died, they shot every... more
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Brent Bozell (Jan 28, 2011)
If anyone doubts that our entertainment industry and our entertainment media are evangelists for a revolution of sexual immorality (or in their lingo, "progress"), he needs... more
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Brent Bozell (Jan 26, 2011)
Once again, the "news" media yawned as tens of thousands of Americans clogged the streets of Washington on Jan. 24 for the annual "March for Life." This year's protests... more
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Brent Bozell (Jan 21, 2011)
The cultural left would like you to think that children should be free to experiment persistently in the Laboratory of Life without soul-stifling rules. They have limits to... more
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Brent Bozell (Jan 19, 2011)
OK, so conservatives have to be accused of fostering hatred with our alleged vitriol, the kind of vitriol that fuels the flames of violence, like we witnessed in Tucson... more
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Brent Bozell (Jan 14, 2011)
Within minutes of the news breaking that Jared Lee Loughner had killed six and wounded 14 in a rampage outside a Tucson Safeway store, including a critically injured Rep.... more
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Brent Bozell (Jan 12, 2011)
Imagine the Saturday morning of congressional aide Mark Kimble. Kimble told of going to a Safeway for a typical meet-and-greet event with his boss, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.... more
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Brent Bozell (Jan 07, 2011)
The Super Bowl is more than just a huge day for professional football fans. Part of the game's massive audience is there for the chance to see how mega-corporations... more
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Brent Bozell (Jan 05, 2011)
Our national media elite reviewed 2010 with great sorrow for how America has besmirched itself in the eyes of the world with its "seething hatred" of Muslims. CBS anchor... more