Word: watchdogging
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Wicker said the importance that the investigation of Agnew is receiving in the press is an example of how "an institution that is supposed to be a watchdog can be used by those with the power...
...with Watergate] the press has justified on a wide scale its reputation as a watchdog," Wicker said. "There has been no reliance on official spokesmen. The press has shown a great deal of imaginativeness and boldness--after a brief period of initial hesitation...
When the movie version of Jesus Christ Superstar opened in New York City this month, Jewish organizations were outraged. Most outspoken was the American Jewish Committee. The committee's watchdog for anti-Semitism in Christian materials, Presbyterian Gerald Strober, called the film "much worse" than the play. For one thing, said Strober, the mob at Jesus' trial is specifically labeled as "you Jews" in the film script. And as on the stage, the Jewish high priests are deep-dyed villains...
...Senate's self-appointed constitutional watchdog, Ervin, for all of his courtliness and mirth, approaches his investigation with a relentless seriousness. He told TIME'S Neil MacNeil last week: "As. an American who loves his country and venerates the institution of the presidency, I indulge the presumption that the President has no connection with the Watergate affair or its coverup. Candor compels me to say that the President is making it very difficult to entertain this presumption if he withholds from the committee the records and the tapes which I believe contain information which is relevant to establish...
...outset of the Nixon Administration, Haldeman was first among equals, the dour watchdog at the Oval Office gates who determined who and what the President saw and heard. Ehrlichman began as no more than an important secondary player. During that first year as the President's counsel, Ehrlichman was engrossed in working out details of the President's real estate transactions at Key Biscayne and San Clemente, and other peripheral matters and issues regarding possible conflicts of interest...