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Watchdog.org is a network of conservative American news websites that feature reporting on state and local government. It is a project of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, an online news organization. Watchdog posts stories on Watchdog websites and syndicates them. == Background == According to the Watchdog.org website, the organization's mission is "to restore oversight of our state governments, to hold politicians and bureaucrats at all levels accountable for their handling of taxpayers’ dollars and to promote individual liberty and free markets." According to the ''Columbia Journalism Review'' (CJR), Watchdog websites' reporting reflects the Franklin Center's focus on government waste and public employee unions. CJR characterized the productivity of the Watchdog sites as "impressive," and noted the commitment to original news reporting as opposed to news aggregation or punditry.〔 〔 Watchdog.org reports that it has state-based investigative reporters in more than 40 states.〔 In 2012, Watchdog had sites in 18 states.〔 In 2014, the Franklin Center said they had one reporter in each of 14 state capitols and two in Nebraska and Virginia. Most of the Watchdog sites have one staff reporter in addition to accepting contributions from citizen journalists through Watchdog Wire.〔 In 2009, the Watchdog site in New Mexico analyzed data published by the administration of President Barack Obama regarding the expenditures authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Watchdog.org reported that millions of dollars of federal stimulus funds were allocated to projects in congressional districts that did not exist; for example, to the twenty-second congressional district in New Mexico, although New Mexico has just three congressional districts.〔 The national Watchdog.org site expanded the story, calling such districts "phantom districts."〔 ABC News picked up the story.〔 The Associated Press later reported that the phantom districts were the result of data entry errors in the government data.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Watchdog.org」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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