Word: watchdogging
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Twice a month the center publishes Notable Quotables, a compendium of sometimes embarrassing, often idiotic but always verbatim quotes from various journalists. It also confers such dubious honors as the Linda Ellerbee Awards for Distinguished Reporting on the journalists making the dumbest remark in various categories. Why did the watchdog group single out the TV newswoman and best-selling author for its scorn? Says Bozell: "She epitomizes a liberal blowhard who has nothing...
...nothing else, the media hounds are a colorful group. The Washington newsletter Between the Lines bills itself as "your bi-weekly watchdog on the politics and personalities of the entertainment and news industries." Included among the menaces to the national well-being are Cher, Barbra Streisand, Martin Sheen, Debra Winger, Tom Cruise, Tyne Daly, David Crosby, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Weaver and Morgan Fairchild...
...sheer wackiness, the most intriguing watchdog publication is the Repap Media Guide, a mammoth annual affair that rates publications and journalists as if they were low-fat frozen yogurts. (Repap is the name of the Canadian paper company that underwrites the project.) The guide is compiled by former Wall Street Journal editorial writer Jude Wanniski, who helped convince Ronald Reagan of the merits of supply-side economics and has spent a good deal of time ever since trying to persuade the public that the deficits thus created do not really matter...
...called in to a Denver talk-radio program and asked to be reviewers. A man who has accepted money from felon Milken, has gone on Asian junkets paid for by felon Moon and has relied on media ratings supplied by proteges of felon LaRouche, Wanniski is the media watchdog with the most serious credibility problem...
...Watchdog publications allow hobbyists and rank amateurs an opportunity to get their digs in at well-paid professionals. These periodicals bristle with jeremiads by professors from obscure universities, by authors whose books have been published by Asklepios/Pagan Press, and by unheralded theorists such as the project director of Redstockings Women's Liberation Archives for Action, whatever that...