The Media Research Center presents the first ever Bulldog Awards, which are presented in six categories. This honors conservatives who deserve praises but will not be recognized by the mainstream media.
The six winners of the MRC’s 2022 Bulldog Awards, as determined by the senior staff of the MRC who assessed recommended submissions from the readers of NewsBusters and supporters of the Media Research Center: Mark Levin and Dan Bongino Miranda Devine Luke Rosiak Stephen Gutowski and Drew Holden
Awards are given throughout the year to left-leaning journalists for their advocacy of liberal causes. The Pulitzer Prizes, the largest journalism award, were presented Monday. They honored liberal-minded journalists, as it was inevitable. (The Washington Post won “for its compellingly told and vividly presented account of the assault on Washington on January 6, 2021” and the Houston Chronicle earned a prize for how they “revealed voter suppression tactics, rejected the myth of widespread voter fraud and argued for sensible voting reforms.”)
In announcing the winners of the Bulldog Awards, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell explained: “Today’s MRC Bulldog Award recipients have been selected after careful consideration. Their impactful work is trusted and respected by Americans nationwide, unlike the work of the left-wing operatives that call themselves ‘journalists.’ As the liberal media celebrate themselves with Pulitzers, we wanted to shine a light on the real truth-tellers who are greatly dedicated to informing the American public on stories the legacy media ignores. Congratulations to this year’s winners!”
Details on the six winners of the MRC’s 2022 Bulldog Awards:
♦ MRC Bulldog Award: Outstanding Radio Talk Show Host Mark Levin
Mark Levin is the most popular talk-show host on evening radio. He shares nightly lessons about the limits of government and the excesses that liberalism can do to our country. His show is filled with hilarious takedowns and citations of left-wing media utterances. He also cites particulars from the Constitution to ensure that his audience learns something every night that links conservative policies to historical principles.
His knowledge is also available on TV through a Fox News Channel weekly program. He has also written influential, best-selling books such as Press freedom is not guaranteed, The Conservative Manifesto: Liberty and TyrannyHis latest work, American MarxismIt sold more than 1.2million copies and was the best-selling book in all formats. The book held the top spot in the New York Times bestsellers list for ten consecutive weeks. It was the seventh of his books to achieve the number-one spot. This feat is all the more remarkable considering how much the establishment presses ignore his books.
♦ MRC Bulldog Awards for Outstanding Podcast Dan Bongino
Dan Bongino became a respected conservative voice in national television and radio after just five years. He was a NYPD officer, Secret Service agent and NYPD officer. His mastery over podcasts was the key to his rise. He produced compelling daily products with a passionate conservative view on the news that attracted countless listeners eager to hear the most current version of the news.
He is a fierce advocate for liberals and holds them accountable. His conservative views of Washington DC and Hollywood, as well as the hate directed at former President Donald Trump by his supporters are solidly held to account. His ability to take on Big Tech’s hypocrisy and censorship actions is remarkable. Although he has now a three hour daily radio talk show that airs in the same timeslot as Rush Limbaugh’s, he produces an engaging hour-long podcast every weekday.
♦ MRC Bulldog award for outstanding columnist Miranda Devine
New York Post Daily Telegraph columnist and Fox News contributor, Miranda Devine has established herself as one of America’s most-trusted commentators on U.S. and foreign policy, especially on China, the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on individual rights, liberal hypocrisy, and, most notably, Hunter Biden’s life of corruption.
Devine is the #1-seller of The Laptop From Hell: Hunter Biden and Big Tech, as well as the Dirty Secrets that the President tried to hide, which chronicled the laptop’s contents and its saga from the initial story penned by colleagues in October 2020 through the rampant censorship of the story to its impact on the election and beyond.
Devine demonstrated deftness when using her Post column to break news on e-mails from Hunter’s laptop, such as one about Hunter having “sought a forever deal with China military-tied firm,” and another that he introduced his father to his “shady business partners” from Eastern Europe.
♦ MRC Bulldog Award in Outstanding Investigative Journalism Luke Rosiak
Daily WireAfter having worked in the same position with the, the investigative reporter. Daily CallerLuke Rosiak, the singularly responsible person for exposing the sexual assaults at Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia and subsequent cover-ups by far-left administrators and school boards.
On October 12, 2021, Rosiak published “Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says.” It redefined the Virginia gubernatorial and attorney general campaigns. Rosiak had multiple follow-ups, including one two days later that said the school district hadn’t followed proper reporting procedures for years and another showing a Terry McAuliffe-linked firm was fighting back against one of the accusers.
This is the author Race to the Bottom: Discovering the Hidden Forces That Destroy Public Education, he’s been praised by Ben Shapiro, who called him “an absolutely indispensable reporter” as well as by Mark Levin, who’s said his book is a necessary read for anyone who “want[s] to preserve a good life for your kids — and yourself.”
♦ MRC Bulldog award for outstanding blogger: Stephen Gutowski
Stephen Gutowski, the founder of The Reload, which launched in 2021 promising “sober, serious firearms reporting and analysis” about firearms, the firearms industry, and the Second Amendment from the pro-gun rights perspective.
It was a great effort to inform the public about the Second Amendment and defend it. In August 2021, his reporting was cited by Senator Chuck Grassley as integral in the sinking of President Biden’s nomination of David Chipman, an anti-gun extremist, to be the head of the ATF. He broke a story on how NBC possibly broke federal law by buying an incomplete “ghost gun” and had a third party finish the construction. He was presented with the 2021 Journalists of the Year award by The Second Amendment Foundation.
Gutowski has a long history of being a gun-safety trainer and is a respected voice on the pro-gun side. He was featured on Time magazine’s cover and made appearances on CNBC. Entertainment TonightFox News, Fox News, C-SPAN.
♦ MRC Bulldog Award: Outstanding Social Media Persona Drew Holden
Reporter for media with the Washington Free BeaconAfter stops at Capitol Hill, and the world of campaign strategies Drew Holden is best-known for having accumulated over 155,000 Twitter followers for his tweets which “spread receipts” by using his archival mind to showcase the many hypocrisies of the journalists and politicians, contrasting their takes today with what they said previously.
Over the past few years, he’s exposed liberal hypocrisy on issues ranging from the double standard on female Supreme Court nominees to the Covid lab leak theory to presidential fitness. Relying on tweets from accounts belonging to liberal journalists, pundits, and news outlets, Holden has earned respect across the political spectrum for his command of how the media covered a past story compared to a current one and how often the facts run counter to the liberal media’s poisonous distortions.
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