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  • noun Plural form of muckraker.

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  • The advent of industrialization and the transformation of living space brought a host of ills, which in turn became the target of a group of investigative journalists known as muckrakers.

    THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998

  • The advent of industrialization and the transformation of living space brought a host of ills, which in turn became the target of a group of investigative journalists known as muckrakers.

    The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998

  • What made me an honest admirer of the muckrakers was my appointment in 1983 as executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a membership organization of about five thousand journalists.

    CJR 2008

  • Let the American public see that these Republican "muckrakers" would rather gamble with the nation's future than choose the "better safe than sorry" approach to climate change.

    Edward Flattau: Bring it On Edward Flattau 2010

  • But we have now been threatened, called "muckrakers" and told that if we do the wrong thing and broadcast the material, they will make our "immoral decision a bane rather than a boon to [our] nascent career[s]."

    Lisa Desai: Would You Want To Know What Your Child Was Doing? Lisa Desai 2010

  • Let the American public see that these Republican "muckrakers" would rather gamble with the nation's future than choose the "better safe than sorry" approach to climate change.

    Edward Flattau: Bring it On Edward Flattau 2010

  • Let the American public see that these Republican "muckrakers" would rather gamble with the nation's future than choose the "better safe than sorry" approach to climate change.

    Edward Flattau: Bring it On Edward Flattau 2010

  • | Reply | Permalink oh, oh dear, but then you ruin it in the last sentence, which basically says "or maybe he has it coming. film at 11." ugh, why does every valid charge made by any of the posters at TPM get totally walked back before its even put out there? why always, always, always, everything in such measured tones? it is ok to get angry sometimes, even for journalists, especially for 'muckrakers'.

    Who's Really Playing The Race Card? 2009

  • The "muckrakers" were at the height of their activity; and the tariff, as one instrument of corruption and privilege, was suffering with the popular condemnation of all big interests.

    The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor Oscar Douglas Skelton 1909

  • Unfortunately, neither Feinstein nor the "muckrakers" at the Post acknowledge why these problems continue to grow: We're in a war we can't fight without contractors.

    Latest Articles 2010

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