The Ford Foundation's announcement last month that it is providing $500,000 to help The Washington Post strengthen its coverage of government-accountability issues is inappropriate and a waste of money.
A citizens' group for media reform, Voice for New Jersey, says the lack of broadcast coverage hampers accountability of public officials and reduces awareness about news in local communities.
It was revelatory coverage and a benchmark performance of accountability journalism.
The ENAP will lead to practical standards for quality of care, improved measurement of births and deaths, and increased programmatic coverage with accountability for results.
Maybe there's still a bit of accountability out there somewhere.(We have more coverage of the spill report here. Photo credit: AFP).
However, most of the studies in this area have been limited by their design (i.e. cross-sectional design, small sample size, limited SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) coverage of small candidate genes, and poor accountability of environmental factors).
Mensch, who attributed her win in what was a marginal Labour seat at the last election to local newspaper coverage, said that such community-level stories "held [MPs] feet to the fire" in terms of accountability.
Primary health care requires structural re-organisation, multidisciplinary team approach with clear lines of accountability, clear referral patterns in a two-way direction, improved access to health insurance to improve health coverage, and developing effective public-private partnerships.
Television coverage has made politicians more responsive to public opinion, opened new debates on previously taboo topics and introduced a new level of accountability — even among the all-powerful military.
The lack of accountability is galling.
