L. Brent Bozell III

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. 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 2007.  His previous book, Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media, was released in July 2004.

In 1998, Mr. Bozell launched CNSNews.com, an online news service with an emphasis on investigative journalism. CNSNews.com has become a major Internet news source with a full staff of journalists in its Washington, D.C. metro bureau, with other correspondents around the world. In October 2006, Mr. Bozell founded the Culture and Media Institute (CMI), whose mission is to thwart the efforts of the liberal media to subvert America’s culture, character, traditional moral values and religious liberty. CMI complements the MRC’s Business and Media Institute (BMI), founded in 1992 to bring balance to economic reporting and to promote fair portrayal of the business community in the media.

Mr. Bozell has also launched a number of other websites under the MRC umbrella including www.mediaresearch.org, www.timeswatch.org, www.mrcaction.org and www.Newsbusters.org, a “blog” site that became one of the top 15 blog sites in America within two months of its launch in 2005.

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. The PTC at http://www.parentstv.org features the “Family Guide to Prime Time Television,” which aids parents in making informed viewing decisions for their children. PTC conducted the largest national newspaper ad campaign in history with late Honorary Chairman Steve Allen, and has mobilized almost one million parents and other concerned members behind its efforts.

In February 2014, a former employee claimed that Bozell did not write his own columns or books and has relied on a Media Research Center colleague, Tim Graham, to write them.

Richard S. Newcombe, the founder of Creators Syndicate who began syndicating Bozell’s column in 1991, said it was a total distortion to claim that Brent Bozell did not write his column. Newcombe said that after the syndicate had launched the column and it was appearing regularly in dozens of newspapers, Bozell asked if he and Tim Graham could have a joint byline since they were both writing the column. Newcombe said the syndicate was heavily invested in promoting Bozell and would add Graham’s name later. He said the blatantly false accusation that Bozell did not write his own column — because he co-wrote it with Graham all along — was corrected and the column appeared with a joint byline until Bozell stopped writing it in 2020.

The column that Bozell started today appears in 50 newspapers and websites with the sole byline of Tim Graham.

Newcombe said Creators Syndicate was encouraged by two heavyweights in the conservative movement to syndicate Bozell. Mary Lou Forbes, editorial page editor of the Washington Times, told the syndicate, “Brent Bozell is providing an invaluable service in exposing liberal bias in the media.” William F. Buckley said, “There is no other column in syndication like it, and many of us conservatives rely heavily on the Media Research Center."

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 Los Angeles 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 frequently invited to appear on Fox News Channel shows such as Fox & Friends, Hannity & Colmes and The O’Reilly Factor, and other appearances include NBC's Today show, CNN's Inside Politics and Larry King Live, ABC's Good Morning America, C-SPAN, CBN and Entertainment Tonight. He has appeared as a guest and guest host on hundreds of radio shows, from local talk shows to ABC Radio, NPR’s Morning Edition, the Michael Reagan Show and the Rush Limbaugh Show.

Named the 1998 Pew Memorial Lecturer by Grove City College, Mr. Bozell is a frequent speaking guest on school campuses and for civic and political organizations around the country.

Mr. Bozell received his B.A. in History from the University of Dallas, where he was named the 1998 Alumnus of the Year. He is married, with five children and two grandchildren.

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