A one-time 'conservative superstar' in California just went bankrupt
In the age of widespread internet use, many of the old fights about television’s depictions of sex, violence and profanity have fallen by the wayside. And now, one of the 2000s’ most prominent culture watchdogs is at its end as well. On Friday, the Parents Television Council declared bankruptcy.
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As the bankruptcy now winds its way through the legal process, it appears that the watchdog’s three-decade run is at an end. The council was formed in 1995 as a Hollywood outpost of Leo Brent Bozell III’s Media Research Center, a still-active group that aims to document liberal bias in the news media and beyond — Bozell is currently President Donald Trump’s ambassador to South Africa.
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But the council hit its stride in the mid-2000s, around the time it adopted its “Because Our Children Are Watching” tagline. It claimed to have driven a fourth of the 530,828 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission over Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl and to have driven away advertisers from edgy shows “Nip/Tuck” and “The Shield.” Its complaints about a raunchy bachelor party scene on the show “Married by America” led to a $1.2 million FCC fine for Fox stations. Another wave of complaints, over a suggestive episode of “Without a Trace,” delivered a $3.6 million fine against CBS stations from the agency.
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One figure who won’t be sad to see the council go? “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane. He said in a 2008 interview with the Advocate magazine that being on the receiving end of the council’s criticism was “like getting hate mail from Hitler.”
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On December 22, 2011, Bozell appeared on a Fox News Channel segment. After being showed a clip in which an MSNBC journalist said that a Republican candidate looked like a "car bomber", Bozell asked how media would react if someone said that President Barack Obama looked like a "skinny ghetto crackhead".
Bozell was an outspoken critic of Donald Trump during the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, describing him as "the greatest charlatan of them all," a "huckster," and a "shameless self-promoter". He said, "God help this country if this man were president."
After Trump clinched the Republican nomination, however, Bozell attacked the media for their alleged "hatred" of Trump. Politico noted, "The paradox here is that Bozell was once more antagonistic toward the president than any journalist." Bozell singled out Jake Tapper of CNN for being "one of the worst offenders" in coverage of Trump.
In August 2020, Bozell told a meeting of conservatives and donors that "leftists planned to steal this election." On January 6, after a mob of Trump supporters – including one of his sons – attacked the United States Capitol, Bozell appeared on Fox Business Network and denounced the riot, stating that "you can never countenance police being attacked. You cannot countenance our national Capitol being breached like this. I think it is absolutely wrong." Bozell also said that "Look, they are furious that they believe this election was stolen. I agree with them."
