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But it is probably true that the quality of politics in America has suffered from the erosion of public trust in institutions that used to act, to at least some degree, as watchdogs.
An article forecasts that commercially available high-resolution satellites will make the world safer by enabling watchdogs to monitor troublemaking countries.
Technology watchdogs call the egg auction another chapter in the cultural slide marked by Jennycam (a Web site featuring live video of a young woman undressing and doing other normal activities in her apartment), the promised Webcast of a man and woman losing their virginity together (which turned out to be a hoax), and a human kidney auction that was conducted and aborted on eBay last month.
Soon after the working group convened, the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons Inc. and two government-ethics watchdogs filed suit, arguing that the closed meetings violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 . FACA, designed to check the power and proliferation of presidential commissions, requires that the meetings of working groups appointed by the executive branch be open to the public.
And the mass media, remarkably free to report on shortcomings in election administration, have been reasonably effective in their role as watchdogs.