Word: watchdogging
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...looking beyond 2008? We're also trying to get people to form Congress watchdog-type groups in state after state and focusing on their representatives and Senators - to take it from the election year '08 and moving it into '09 and to move these platforms, these issues into Congress. To make it a broader redirection of Congress as it truly represents the people has not been tried before... Any kind of social justice proposal has to be premised on a shift of power, and that's what happened with slavery and the women's right to vote and worker standards...
Take yesterday’s exposé on John McCain’s political-careerful of indiscretions small and large. The probable Republican nominee for president and historically, McCain apparently didn’t let his self-styled reputation as the Senate’s most adamant ethics watchdog slow him down when Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg offered him a plane ride. The Arizona senator—who is becoming more and more like his constituency with each passing year—was celebrated when he helped birth the Reform Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping corporate money...
...Parents Television Council (PTC), a TV-decency watchdog, is not so charmed. When CBS picked up Dexter as a strike replacement from sister network Showtime, it cut out the most graphic violence and language, but the group is pressing advertisers to boycott the show anyway. Edits or no edits, says PTC president Tim Winter, "it's the entire premise that's the problem. You are in a disturbingly queasy way rooting for a mass murderer to kill somebody...
...penalties on those who foment racism within sports. But even this new law may not be enough to combat a larger problem. "The real issue is that Spaniards have a habit of not taking this kind of thing seriously," says Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement against Intolerance, a watchdog group. "There's a banalization, a permissiveness in the face of racist incidents that worries me more than the incidents themselves. As long as society as a whole continues to see these crimes as insignificant, they're going to recur...
...Montclarion receives roughly one-third of its funding from the student government, but like most collegiate papers it has historically been allowed to challenge the misuse of that government’s authority. A meddling student government undermines the fundamental role of the newspaper to operate as a watchdog. Here, the SGA’s funding freeze was a blatant attempt to stifle the paper’s criticism, and thus threatened the integrity of both institutions. The affair at Montclair State is indicative of a much larger problem—that media outlets are too often funded by those...