Posted on 01/23/2025 8:40:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
You may or may not know the name "Brent Bozell," but surely you know his work as the founder and president of the Media Research Center.
They are the guys who have worked the longest and accomplished the most to expose the Left-wing bias of the Pravda Media. Back when the only thing we could do was bitch about how biased the media was, Brent went to work documenting and exposing it. No doubt you have seen tens or hundreds of MRC clips online exposing the idiocy of the Pravda propagandists. I have used those videos countless times over the years.
Bozell was just named the CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
I am honored to be chosen by President Trump to serve as the next CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
There is lots of work to be done. I look forward to meeting with Senators ahead of my confirmation hearing to explore how best to ensure the priorities of the President are met.Thank you, Mr. President!
pic.twitter.com/2x3zC4lt19— Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) January 23, 2025
Few of you could recognize the name 'U.S. Agency for Global Media," but you surely know their products. Don't feel bad for not knowing the specifics of the agency, by the way. I couldn't have named it until I looked it up. Here are the names you do know:
The agency also runs the Open Technology Fund, which is supposed to enable free speech in places where it is not allowed. Imagine how useful that wasn't under Joe Biden and how useful it will become under the new Trump administration. I suggest targeting Western Europe first, since free speech is on the wane there.
Donald Trump is THE free speech president.
It is shocking we need an executive order telling the government to stop violating the First Amendment.
This executive order is a great step towards protecting free speech, but Congress needs to step up and make these changes…— Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) January 21, 2025
Bozell is a superb choice for this position. The VOA and these other outlets are the public face of the American government worldwide, and ensuring that the messaging they put out is ideologically aligned with the President is especially important.
I wouldn't expect any of these media outlets to become pure Trump boosters, though. That would defeat the purpose over the long term. While the job is to portray the news in a way that is ideologically sympathetic with the views of the US government, it also has to remain largely credible. No Baghdad Bobs allowed, and I am certain that as a man who has fought ridiculous propaganda nearly all his life, Bozell understands that point, too.
One note of irony, of course, is that Bozell has been the face of the movement, fighting and exposing Pravda Media propaganda and now he will be in charge of American propaganda. After all, the mission is to spin the news to make America look good--everybody knows that, and it is no different in kind than what press secretaries do every day, but it is propaganda nonetheless.
Bozell has seen enough of it in his day, so he should be good at it.
And I thought Kari Lake was going to get the VOA spot....
Wow! He’s been preparing for something like this for 30 or 40 years!
For a long time I kept a copy of the totally prescient statement Bozell made that no matter what the current (1990s) GOP set as campaign strategy, none of it will matter if the leftist news media kept up its continuous biased slanderous propaganda.
So right.
Bozell is a million times better.
Didn’t his son also just get a pardon from Trump? What a week!
“Wow! He’s been preparing for something like this for 30 or 40 years!”
Try 55+
Brent Bozell, as a teen, was writing for National Review c. 1970. His uncle was Bill Buckley.
Wow. I do remember the articles he wrote for NR in the 1970s.
YAY!!!
been reading Brent’s stuff for more than a decade. God is now blessing this man and his family. this appointment and his beloved son was just pardoned from prison for j6 nonsense ‘crimes’ by President Trump as well.
Oh, this is great! Winning!
It can no longer be said that the BBC is an unbiased source of information. Their day of international greatness is over.
The BBC committed suicide when political correctness and leftist ideology became their standard.
THE BBC IS DEAD.
The BBC's "News in Special English" was listened to intently by those in Communist-controlled countries. Maybe Bozell's VOA will do the same.
He’s a great one.
Speaking of his Media Research Center:
BREAKING: TikTok Permanently Removes MRCTV Account Without Explanation
NewsBusters ^ | 8/1/2022 | Joseph Vazquez and Gabriela Pariseau
Posted on 8/1/2022, 9:29:06 AM by JV3MRC
The Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok reached the climax of its lengthy battle with the Media Research Center’s video division by entirely axing it from the platform without notice.
An MRCTV staff member opened the TikTok App to find that the account was “banned” — again — but not before the platform removed five more videos.
TikTok’s latest censor blitz came just three weeks after the platform permanently banned MRCTV on May 26. TikTok reduced the initial sentence from a permanent ban to a weeklong suspension, but one week after the suspension ended, the Chinese-Communist Party-tied platform removed MRCTV. Between Aug. 25, 2021 and June 15, 2022, TikTok censored MRCTV a total of 45 times....
Brilliant move, IMHO. I can hardly keep up...
A Never Trumper of the highest order.
Almost as bad Cheeto faced drama queen Glenda Beck.
Bozell wrote a column on Breitbart during the 2016 primaries pathetically begging the Breitbart crowd to not vote for Trump.
Almost as pathetic as Pierre Delecto begging for a brokered convention, I believe that was in Wisconsin where he got out of all of Trump’s products and mocked them.
Bozell is and was PATHETIC.
Bozell will be CEO of US Global Media, of which VOA is just one entity, which Kari Lake will head.
Wow.
Good post. Thanks.
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