Word: watchdogging
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...heart of the conflict is a fundamental, perhaps irreconcilable disagreement over the role of the press. To the West, the press is the independent Fourth Estate, watchdog of the other three, and profit-making servant of an informed electorate. To the Communist world, the press is an apparatus of the state charged primarily with educating the masses about state policies. Third World leaders may prefer the Western model, but believe they need a controlled press to promote economic development, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. Observes Chicago Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick: "I hear the same complaints from the Third...
Many Third World governments do not exactly encourage better coverage. The London-based International Press Institute, a watchdog group that monitors press freedom, reported in 1976 that 15 developing nations had expelled or refused entry to foreign correspondents in the previous year, and the rate has probably increased since then. Nigeria has booted out nearly all resident foreign journalists; the last Reuters man there was put into a dugout canoe with his wife and eight-year-old daughter and advised to start rowing toward neighboring Benin...
...really care, there is a state auditor. Essentially, the state auditor should be a watchdog over government in the Commonwealth. But the rash of public service scandals in the State House does not lend much credibility to the state auditor these days...
...reality, Thurmond has been an aggressive watchdog for corporate interests on several fronts. He fought hard to defeat the labor law reform bill, for example, and has even gone so far as to actively discourage companies that were less than rabidly anti-union from locating in South Carolina...
...latest opposition of the Dark Ages-style Muslim mullahs to the Shah's government [Sept. 18] comes as no surprise to those of us interested in progress and in seeing Iran enter the 20th century. The mullahs' theocratic demand to watchdog parliament in the name of democracy is a mockery of the right to freedom. The mullahs ought to be reminded that their "overseeing" the parliament is just as repugnant as the ban on the freedom of the press, for which they criticize the Shah's regime. The separation of church and state is essential to democracy...