The Watchdog with David Bozell

Before you open the digital flip book version of the report, yes, that's me on the cover. I objected. Apparently, presidents don't get a vote on these things.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, I'm excited to share MRC's 2025 Annual Report.

Every page tells the story of what your support made possible over the last year. And what a year it was.

In 2025, MRC helped drive a national conversation about left-wing activism in late-night television. Our research on the media's relentless negative coverage of President Trump became required reading inside the White House. And after decades of work exposing the partisan nature of taxpayer-funded media, Congress finally ended federal funding for NPR and PBS.

Those victories didn't happen by accident. They happened because MRC has spent nearly four decades building the facts, the archives, the research, and the credibility necessary to win arguments that many people once thought were unwinnable.

You'll find those accomplishments throughout this report, along with many others.

This past year also marked a major transition for our organization. My father, Brent Bozell, moved into the role of President Emeritus, and our Board of Directors entrusted me with the leadership of the institution he founded nearly four decades ago.

When he started MRC, it operated out of a rented townhome with a handful of staff members and a few VCRs. Today, MRC reaches hundreds of millions of Americans each year and serves as the nation's leading authority on media bias.

That legacy is something I think about every day.

I'm grateful for the confidence our Board has placed in me, but I'm equally grateful for the confidence you have placed in me. The warm welcome I've received from our supporters has been humbling, and I take seriously the responsibility of leading this organization into its next chapter.

The good news is that chapter is off to a strong start.

In many ways, 2026 is already exceeding the goals we set just a year ago. The media landscape is changing rapidly, and MRC is evolving right along with it. We are exposing new gatekeepers, new forms of bias, and new threats to free speech with the same determination that has defined this organization since its founding.

I hope you'll take a few minutes to read the report. More importantly, I hope you'll take pride in what you've helped accomplish.

Every victory in these pages belongs to you as much as it does to us.

With warm regards, 

David Bozell
President