muckraking
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- /ˈmʌkˌreɪkɪŋ/
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- After 10 years of editing my own paper in Flint... a California millionaire called and asked me to be the editor... of his muckraking magazine in San Francisco.
- muckraking journalist
Examples
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In 2010, a cadre of muckraking activists, including the artist Andrea Fraser, started a project called Artigarchy.
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The journalist was known for her muckraking, uncovering scandals about influential politicians.
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Although there are several thousand accredited reporters in Washington today, not much muckraking is actually going on.
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Muckraking has many attractions for reporters and editors.
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The initial impact of the progressive movement on journalism was the rise of muckraking in the first decade of the twentieth century.
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What muckraking did was promote a tradition of journalism that took as its task the unmasking of power.
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Initially, the muckraking journalists directed their attacks against the plutocracy and the business class in an attempt to expose corruption.
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Muckraking arose within magazines rather than newspapers, for the former had no affiliation with politics, let alone with a given political party.
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After his death, his deputy took over, and the paper, defying the obvious risk, bravely continued its muckraking pursuit.
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But in an article in Time magazine profiling Reid's muckraking, the scale of exposures became national news.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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Reporting illegal or wrong actions at work to people outside the company
Writing or media that looks for scandals to attract readers
Antonyms
How Investigative
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word muckraking comes from the image of someone using a rake to pull up muck ('dirt' or 'filth'), a picture used in the early 1900s for journalists who dug up dirty facts about the powerful. So, muckraking means searching out and telling the public about scandal, especially about public figures.