muckraker

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Synonyms for muckraker

one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage)

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"'Muckracker and reformers' en la epoca de Theodore Roosevelt".
The System - Introduced by muckracker Thomas Lawson in his series "Frenzied Finance" in Everybody's magazine.
The result, in Horowitz's words, was a "return to the Jungle," where an exploited, transient, largely immigrant work force faces conditions comparable to those chronicled in turn-of-the-century Chicago by muckracker Upton Sinclair.
Sounding similar to a progressive era muckracker attacking the arrogance, privilege and elitism of government officials, Harkin attacked the Senate in general as an aristocratic body concerned with personal power: "I believe each Senator needs to give up a little of our pride, a little of our prerogatives, .
(Several of Mayor Marion Barry's top aides are in jail, and while Barry himself has not been formally charged with any crime, he has had to deny a host of accusations, including graft, drug abuse, and a relationship with a convicted drug dealer.) The Times not the Post has been the real muckracker. Five days passed before the Post got around to covering a Times story that the associate director of the D.C.