Word: watchdogging
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...publishers and editors resist criticizing themselves in public, but rank-and-file newsmen are more than ready to do it for them. Since 1968, when the Chicago Journalism Review was begun by a group of local journalists, at least ten similar watchdog publications have been launched or are in planning stages across the country. The latest to appear is The Unsatisfied Man, put out by 55 newsmen in Colorado...
...Echo, which sounded the theme for Barry Goldwater's disastrous 1964 campaign, is a Republican candidate for Congress in Illinois. A blunt conservative who advocates a military establishment beyond the wildest dreams of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she also sees her role as that of a "congressional watchdog" over excessive govern mental expenditures...
...Watchdog Onus. In some larger cities, blacks now have the power to turn an election their way by voting as a bloc, much as have labor unions, ethnic groups and businessmen. No one knows that better than Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell, who was elected with more than 90% of the black vote last fall-fully half of his overall total. Much of the rest of his support came from labor unions, attracted by the promises of economic progress held out by the liberal Massell. In New Orleans last April, Mayor Moon Landrieu was elected on a similar black-labor-liberal...
Died. Milburn P. Akers, 70, longtime (1949-65) managing editor and editor of the Chicago Sun-Times; of injuries suffered when the car he was driving collided with a truck; near Hopedale, Ill. Akers saw the press as society's watchdog and became famous for his Chicago crusades against brutal police and crooked politicians...
...budget has been trimmed by $10 billion to meet the scrutiny of a Congress alerted by Proxmire's probing. Proxmire gives too little credit to honorable men within the Administration, both in and out of uniform, who are as earnestly devoted to keeping down costs as any congressional watchdog...