Brent Bozell: On Media Bias, the Death of Local News, and the 30-Year Decline of the News Industry

Jan Jekielek

Senior Editor

Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”

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February 20, 2020Updated: February 23, 2020

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How has the media industry changed over the last 30 years?

Can media bias be empirically measured?

Despite the information revolution, how are people actually getting less information instead of more? Why is local news no longer being covered?

And how have social media and big tech transformed the media landscape and American politics?

This is American Thought Leaders ??, and I’m Jan Jekielek.

In this episode, we’ll sit down with Brent Bozell, the founder and president of the Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog that, by its own account, measures and identifies left-leaning bias. Bozell is also the publisher of NewsBusters and CNSNews.com.

American Thought Leaders is an Epoch Times show available on Facebook and YouTube.