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Reading a list recently compiled by the Media Research Center of Alexandria, Va. was one of those liberal moments. the Media Research Center, despite its objective-sounding name, is a conservative watchdog group. Earlier this month, they put out a Top 10 list of, to quote a Arkansas Democrat-Gazette media columnist, "the most egregiously offensive liberal series and [television] movies of the 1994-95 season...
...solution to the problem of politics,according to Ferguson, is to avoid making the BSAinto a "race watchdog organization" and instead"pick a concrete goal," such as raising the gradepoint average of BSA members or to encourage Blackstudents to "take over" existing newspapers suchas The Crimson and the Independent rather thancreating their own publications...
...recent months the debate has grown even more intense, thanks in large part to two books, one published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a watchdog organization dedicated to blowing the whistle on anti-Semitism, and the other by Reverend Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson, the former Republican presidential candidate and the founder and leader of the Christian Coalition...
Asked whether he saw his role as that of educator, political watchdog or entertainer, Marlette quipped: "As I see it there are 50 million people in this country that work for the government. I am a political cartoonists--I work against the government...
...police department that was a shambles," says Marc Morial, 37, who was elected mayor last year. "The first step is to expose it, and that is painful for the community." The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corruption in the department "pervasive, rampant and systemic." Jordan and several watchdog groups estimate that between 10% and 15% of the 1,500-officer police department is crooked...