Reporter uncovers trucks full of bodies: ‘Just doing my job,’ he says

By   /  March 15, 2013  /  Commentary  /  1 Comment

Mexico Drug War

 
By Tom Steward  | Watchdog Minnesota
As anyone who’s tuned in for our Watchdog series on Sunshine Week can verify, government officials — as a general rule — tend to hoard information. You don’t need unidentified sources to confirm it goes with the territory.
Reporters can get pretty worked up about their right — and your right — [...]

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NPR criticizes Obama’s attention-seeking

By   /  March 4, 2013  /  WatchBlog  /  No Comments

TWEET: Michelle Obama went back and forth with Jimmy Fallon on Twitter before her Late Night appearance.

By Dustin Hurst Hurst | Watchdog.org
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — Since 2008, President Barack Obama’s foes have criticized him as a narcissistic attention-seeker always on the lookout for his next media cameo.
Now, an unlikely source seems to have joined that chorus: National Public Radio.
A few days ago, NPR unloaded on the president and First Lady Michelle Obama for invading America’s [...]

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WI: Is the media an accomplice in mass shootings?

By   /  December 17, 2012  /  Censorship, Ethics, Featured, Journalism, Journalism & Media, News, Public Safety, Transparency, Wisconsin  /  No Comments

IN MOURNING: A Newtown, Conn., resident shows her support in a sign. (AP photo)

MADISON – Within a few hours after the first shots rang out at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., ABC News revved up its marketing machine.

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Video: How reporters got Michigan’s right to work story wrong

By   /  December 12, 2012  /  Media, Video  /  No Comments

There were a lot of reporters in Michigan for the right to work protests, but not all of them got the story right.

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VA: Week in review — Candidates, voting controversies and tax preferences won’t leave the state alone

By   /  October 19, 2012  /  2012 General Election, Elections, Federal Government, Journalism, Journalism & Media, Local Government, News, Open Records, Public records, State Government, Tax Reform, Taxes, Transparency, Virginia, Voter Registration  /  No Comments

HEAD ON: That's how Virginians are going to have to meet some pressing decisions in the coming weeks.

By Kathryn Watson | Watchdog.org Virginia Bureau
ALEXANDRIA — With less than three weeks to go until Election Day on Nov. 6, the intensity of the federal election frenzy is tightening its grip on Virginia.
In a supposed “voter protection effort,” a labor union sought out the names of Virginia citizens who had requested voter lists from Fairfax County [...]

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