Donald Trump has chosen right-wing activist L. Brent Bozell III to guide the U.S. Company for World Media. The company is impartial of the federal authorities and oversees the Voice of America broadcast community in addition to different taxpayer-funded information and data providers focusing on Asia, the Center East, and Europe.
Bozell would require Senate approval to change into CEO of USAGM.
Trump’s newest decide is greatest identified for creating the extremist Media Analysis Middle, which has claimed for many years that mainstream media is liberal and doesn’t present sufficient of a platform for conservative views. MRC has stood by this declare whilst mainstream media organizations furthered lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, superior falsehoods about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails, and are at the moment buckling to Trump.
Alongside along with his campaign in opposition to the “liberal media,” Bozell and his group have additionally repeatedly complained that motion pictures and tv exhibits generally acknowledge the existence of LGBTQ+ folks and infrequently regard them as completely acceptable members of society.
In a 2013 column, Bozell lamented that homosexual characters on motion pictures and TV exhibits “never face any real opposition to the gay agenda on these so-called ‘inclusive’ programs.” He additionally railed in opposition to a undertaking by the advocacy group GLAAD which tracked the variety of LGBTQ+ folks depicted in leisure.
He referred to GLAAD as “trend-enforcers” who “want children indoctrinated.”
A couple of years earlier than that, Bozell wrote that he was upset that actors and media retailers expressed sympathy for homosexual teenagers who face bullying, describing them as “evangelists for a revolution of sexual immorality.”
Bozell’s Media Analysis Middle additionally complained that Yahoo! deleted anti-gay hate feedback, that the media didn’t depict sufficient “ex-gays,” and was incensed at CNN for purportedly supporting “homosexual causes.”
MRC even boycotted the notoriously right-wing CPAC convention as a result of a bunch that supported homosexual equality was allowed to attend.
At one level, Bozell even demanded a congressional investigation of an artwork exhibit on the Smithsonian Establishment in Washington as a result of it depicted “images of an ant-covered Jesus, male genitals, naked brothers kissing, men in chains, Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts.” The exhibit was pulled after Bozell and different conservatives complained.
On overseas coverage issues, Bozell was amongst the contingent of conservatives who insisted that weapons of mass destruction had been present in Iraq. Bozell made the declare in 2006, lengthy after it had been found that no such weapons existed. He’s additionally a dependable presence spouting right-wing speaking factors on Fox Information applications.
Trump’s determination to faucet Bozell for the publish echoes his alternative of conspiracy theorist Kari Lake to go Voice of America. These choices make it clear that Trump intends to infuse the federal government’s media infrastructure with extremist right-wing values and speaking factors.
However it appears that evidently extremism runs within the household. Bozell’s son L. Brent Bozell IV, was sentenced to 45 months in jail for assaulting legislation enforcement, destroying authorities property, and different expenses stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot instigated by Trump.
Bozell’s son was among the many 1,500 individuals who have been pardoned by Trump on Tuesday for his or her participation within the rebel.
