The Watchdog with David Bozell

If a government-funded research project helped trigger a global pandemic that killed millions of people, wouldn’t you want to know?

If federal officials misled the public about it, wouldn’t you want answers?

If powerful people spent years dismissing legitimate questions, wouldn’t you expect journalists to investigate? 

Strange, isn’t it? The biggest story of our lifetime produced remarkably little curiosity from many of the people who claim curiosity is their profession.

COVID was the biggest story of our lifetimes. It shut down schools, businesses, churches, and entire countries. It cost trillions of dollars. It changed the course of history. 

Yet when newly released documents about the origins of the virus and whether U.S. taxpayer dollars helped fund risky research in Wuhan, much of the media seem content with not knowing.

Trust in the media didn’t collapse overnight. It collapsed because people watched journalists abandon the habits that made journalism valuable in the first place. Skepticism. Curiosity. Persistence. A willingness to challenge powerful institutions.

When those instincts disappeared, so did the public’s confidence.

The Media Research Center has spent years documenting that failure. We will continue to expose what the media ignore, highlight what they dismiss, and ask the questions they would rather leave unanswered.

I often tell our team that every piece of content we produce should do one of three things: educate, inspire, or entertain.

The corporate media increasingly does none of the above.

Our job is to do all three.

Educate Americans with facts they aren’t getting elsewhere.

Inspire the public to challenge conventional wisdom.

And occasionally remind Americans that many of the most powerful people in journalism deserve a little ridicule when they abandon their own standards.

After all, left to their own devices, many reporters would happily devote a six-part series to the reflecting pool while ignoring one of the biggest unanswered questions of the pandemic.

Thank you for standing with us in the fight for truth.

Take it easy,

David Bozell
President