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...prejudging of matters that might come before the Federal Communications Commission. So anyone filing a complaint had to agree not to sue for libel or take his case to the FCC later. If the council censured a newspaper, that paper did not have to print the findings. The watchdog could bark but was not allowed to bite...
Although the panel strongly praised the watchdog efforts of State Department of Public Health, the department can only do "a certain amount of monitoring to enforce the limit it's set," said Nancy Ridley, who directs the EDB testing program in Massachusetts...
...officially reported cost of the 357 "fact-finding" missions that Congressmen took to 85 countries last year seemed high enough: $5.9 million. But an investigation by United Press International and a Washington watchdog group, the Better Government Association, indicates the real bill was closer to $22 million. Flights on military planes and services arranged by the State Department accounted for huge hidden costs to the taxpayer...
...purported watchdog agency demonstrated its change in approach at the new group's first meeting last week. In sharp contrast to previous Commissions' vigorous support for affirmative action and desegregation, Reagan's Commission voted 6-2 against the use of numerical goals as a method of redressing past discrimination and against the use of busing as the last alternative to segregation. It also made its "top priority" a proposed study of the effects of affirmative action programs on Americans of Eastern and Southern European descent. More disturbing than these actions' political content, though, is the way the group simply parroted...
Sure, the press has its faults. But God help us if the press, the only watchdog we have on the Goverment and other institutions, ever loses its freedom...