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External LinksMORE LINKSMedia Week Brent Bozell's PTC files 99.8% of all FCC indeceny complaints!In an appearance before Congress in February ... Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell laid some startling statistics on U.S. senators. The number of indecency complaints had soared dramatically to more than 240,000 in the previous year, Powell said. The figure was up from roughly 14,000 in 2002, and from fewer than 350 in each of the two previous years. There was, Powell said, "a dramatic rise in public concern and outrage about what is being broadcast into their homes." What Powell did not reveal -- apparently because he was unaware -- was the source of the complaints. According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003 -- 99.8 percent -- were filed by [Brent Bozell's] the Parents Television Council, an activist group.
Brian Montopoli Propaganda Clothed as CritiqueWe'd like to take Brent Bozell's Media Research Center seriously. We really would...[but] Underlying every assertion by MRC...is the notion that the media is consciously and deliberately acting to distort the news, thanks to an overriding and all-consuming ideological bias.
MediaMatters.org Bozell wrote that anti-Kerry vets are "never invited" for "interviews with Ted Koppel," then noted that "Koppel sat down with an anti-Kerry veteran"
NY Times Shifting 'Reagans' to Cable Has CBS Facing New CriticsCBS's decision yesterday to drop its mini-series about Ronald and Nancy Reagan, after an impassioned campaign by Republican and conservative groups, roiled the television industry... ...On Oct. 28, the Media Research Center, a conservative group led by L. Brent Bozell ...wrote a letter to a list of 100 top television sponsors urging them to "refuse to associate your products with this movie."
Atrios This is a masterful bit of cheap propoganda by Brent [Bozell]...He [Bozell] actually has no idea if Connolly had other confirmations of this quote. Neither do I. But, I can do in 4 seconds what either Brent or Ceci could have done and find the Google archive of Thacker's website, where the word "deathstyle" sits proudly.
Media Whores Online Congratulations MWO Whore of the Week: Brent BozellNow that the rightwing has unleashed the "attack journalists" on David Brock’s Blinded By The Right, it shouldn't be too surprising that 'Media Watchdog" L. Brent Bozell has weighed in
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PERSON PROFILEL. Brent Bozell IIIBrent Bozell, a zealot of impeccable right-wing pedigree, is the nephew of columnist William F. Buckley and the son of L. Brent Bozell, Jr., who assisted Barry Goldwater with the writing of Conscience of a Conservative. A close associate of the late Terry Dolan, the closeted gay founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, Bozell served for several years as the Dolan organization's finance chairman and president. In 1991, he helped orchestrate a smear campaign directed at the opposition to Clarence Thomas's appointment to the Supreme Court; in 1992, he was the chief fund-raiser behind Pat Buchanan's unsuccessful bid for the Republican Presidential nomination. The Media Research Center provides Bozell with a platform from which to bash the arts and popular culture. Recently (1996) Bozell has been part of the drive to eradicate PBS. The garish portrayal of our culture by Bozell, such as the claim that the film version of Last Temptation of Christ showed Jesus "engaging in sex acts and committing adultery," are sometimes entertaining, but the accretion of drivel can be wearing.
BoomanTribune.com Brent Bozell, Chicken?...Apparently, Mr. Bozell is a coward. He told MSNBC he would not appear if I was on the show, even if they scheduled me before or after him. He couldn't handle a man-to-man debate. Typical conservative coward. I think the term is "Girly Man". Tough talker when he is alone but unable to handle an informed debate. What is really sad is the MSNBC is caving into Bozell, rather than insisting that its audience hear both sides of an issue. Terry Krepel Brent Bozell, Pundit Without a ClueThe Media Research Center's Brent Bozell is at his most entertaining when he's asserting something that has no basis in fact or making claims on which he has done no research. He recently accomplished both in a two-day span The Raw Story / Blue Lemur Source of claims CBS documents faked runs Conservative Victory CommitteeInternet 'journalist' Matt Drudge has posted a claim which suggests that the new documents that indict President Bush’s failures in the National Guard are actually fakes.The source of his story, Cybercast News Service, is a well-known conservative 'news' machine headed by L. Brent Bozell III, who also serves as the head of the Conservative Victory Committee. Paul Waldman How I got a disturbing view of Brent Bozell's undying rageLast night I appeared on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor, debating Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center ... [after the debate] Bozell looked at me angrily and said, "That was horseshit, what you said!" MediaMatters.org Bozell repeated lie that Lay slept in Lincoln Bedroom during Clinton yearsThough he was introduced by CNN ... as "part of the truth squad [at the DNC]," L. Brent Bozell III repeated the lie that former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay stayed in the White House's Lincoln Bedroom during Bill Clinton's presidency. James Kuhnhenn As war and the economy influence election, conservatives turn their sights on the mediaConservatives across the country decry news coverage of the war as relentlessly and unfairly negative. Last week Brent Bozell, a conservative activist, launched a $2.8 million advertising and talk-radio campaign to discredit the "liberal news media." Also see:Kevin Drum comments on this story at Washington Monthly: "The Conservative War on Truth" Democratic Underground.com The MRC and Liberal Media Bias: Creating Their Own Enemy"..Bozell has been charged with what may be the most important job in conservative circles: verifying that Liberal Media Bias exists, and therefore vindicating the overwhelming amount of conservative punditry that we are subjected to daily. Washington Post Bozell-created and run org forced to pay $3.5 millon for false claims against WWE SmackdownThe Parents Television Council (PTC), created and run by Bozell, has been forced to pay $3.5 million to the WWF, for falsely claiming that televised wrestling was responsible for the deaths of four children.
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MORE LINKSL. Brent Bozell at SourceWatch
MediaMatters.org Olbermann named Bozell "Worst Person" for claiming "100 generals ... would disagree" with NBC's characterization of Iraq as "a civil war"
Eric Boehlert Brent Bozell, unhingedGuess we should've seen this one coming.
Editorial Times' bashers are reckless and wrongSometimes lies should be called what they are.
MediaMatters.org Ignoring evidence, Bozell claimed the "hardened historical narrative" on Iraq WMDs "needs to be amended"In his syndicated column, Media Research Center president L. Brent Bozell III claimed that "[t]he hardened historical narrative" on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq "needs to be amended" because of the assertion by Sen. Rick Santorum and Rep. Peter Hoekstra that a recently declassified report found there were WMDs in Iraq prior to the U.S.-led invasion. Bozell ignored conclusive declarations by intelligence officials that the degraded chemical munitions hyped by Santorum and Hoekstra were not, in fact, in the category of "weapons of mass destruction."
MediaMatters.org Why is C-SPAN hosting Brent Bozell?The December 3 edition of the program After Words on C-SPAN2's Book TV featured an interview with former CBS producer Mary Mapes conducted by L. Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the conservative Media Research Center (MRC), an organization that purports to "prove -- through sound scientific research -- that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values." Yet at no point did C-SPAN identify Bozell or his organization as conservative, nor was it noted that Bozell and the MRC have long criticized Mapes for her role in the controversial CBS 60 Minutes II story on President Bush's alleged failure to meet his Vietnam-era Texas Air National Guard (TANG) requirements. In the C-SPAN interview, Bozell confronted Mapes with unsourced "criticisms" of the TANG story, leaving viewers unaware that the "criticisms" Bozell offered were actually drawn from MRC research and his own nationally syndicated columns.
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