watchdog

Definition

  • noun: a dog that is trained to guard a place
  • noun: a dog kept to guard property
  • synonyms: guard dog, bandog, porter

Examples

  • consumer/environmental 'watchdogs'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) or care about the real issues that are out there. Well I think this is just one more piece of evidence of the degree to which the media, supposedly the watchdogs, has become the gatekeeper of the system. Mainstream media are first of all, nearly all of them, corporations, nearly all of them now, (..)
    2009 Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup