WATCHDOG

The primary role of a watchdog journalist is to bark loud enough for the proper authority figures to take action. Here is an example of this role from Obama's first Press Conference.

Turmoil associated with Williamson County (TX) and its Commissioners Court has given rise to The Wilco Watchdog, a new 'Å"watching over Williamson County for you' web site and Wilco Watchdog Facebook page.

Family Watchdog is a useful site that consolidates data already available on local sex offender lists, and allows the user to search by address or name. This information being so readily available raises issues of privacy and a false sense of security.

An article about Family Watchdog, a website that locates sexual offenders in your neighborhood, and the news about it.

Every year, Australian consumer watchdog organization Choice releases its list of Shonky Awards. These awards are for bad quality, suspect practices and misleading claims for products and exorbitant charges for various services.

The longest surviving octuplets have a court appointed watchdog looking out for their financial affairs. Is this an overreaching infringement of parental rights or a much needed invasion of family privacy?

The Family Watchdog group allows quick search of all sex offenders near you.

As the parent of a teen girl and with little ones coming up, I worry about who lives in my neighborhood and who is moving in. One way to get some piece of mind is to search the National Sex Offenders Registry at Family Watchdog.

Family Watchdog is a website that shows sexual offenders in your area. Awareness is key to safety.

America's Watchdog says 2008 will see millions of Americans lose their homes to foreclosure as more mortgage lenders go out of business, home builders go bust and commercial real estate investment trusts collapse.

A conservative military watchdog has criticized a New York Congressman for being flippant and disrespectful toward United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during recent testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

For true movie lovers who would like to know something more than who stars in the movie and how much money it made on its opening weekend there is a nifty little magazine called Video Watchdog.

Rush Limbaugh says Obama and Democrats don't care for people who work, and that they are trying to destroy the country.

Whenever a horrible incident like the Jaycee Lee Dugard case appears in the media and capture the nation's attention for more than the MTV standard three minutes, one remark that is commonly heard is: So why isn't there a national sex offender...

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The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, co-founded by the Church of Scientology and Dr. Thomas Szasz, has opened an exhibit in Philadelphia. The exhibit depicts atrocities that have been committed by psychiatrists

Experts claim it's not a question of if there will be a mass casualty as a result of counterfeit tobacco products coming from China or counterfeit drugs coming from China or India. Rather, it's just a question of when or how soon and can anything be done to stop it.

Despite warnings of an impending real estate and economic disaster, mortgage lending practices didn't change. Greedy mortgage lenders and homebuilders had their way with unsuspecting consumers, leaving the U.S. economy on the verge of a serious recession or worse.

Because of the internet, cable and satellite television, the face of journalism today is unrecognizable in comparison to what it was when I was growing up.

Watchdog group The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is concerned that Scholastic is misusing it's access to school students to sell them more than reading material.

Americas Watchdog and US Drug Watchdog are investigating Vioxx and Trasylol use when less riskier and inexpensive alternative drugs were available.

The National Association of Realtors recently said home prices will gradually start to increase in 2008. Americas Watchdog says this is "another lie, from a desperate trade group willing to say anything to improve sales for starving real estate agents."

The national media has been accused of a double standard in its coverage of the Bush Administration's firings of eight United States attorneys it was reported today. A watchdog group noted the same media virtually ignored President Clinton's firing of 93 attorneys.