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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He had by then become a figure of fun, having embraced mysticism and suffered two nervous breakdowns, but Muckraker acknowledges modern journalism's debt to him.
Although authorities have launched a criminal investigation of Navalny, the digital muckraker remains defiant, publicly taunting his enemies.
TPM Muckraker obtained a copy of a letter the Justice Department sent to Sens.
For readers too young or otherwise too removed from the decades-long, poisoned relationship of Anderson, the syndicated columnist, and Nixon, the politician and President, I offer a few of its building blocks: Anderson learned some of his trade from mentor Drew Pearson, also a widely published muckraker based in Washington.
Moses Avalon has staked out his journalistic turf as a muckraker, a crusader who uncovers the evils of the mighty record companies.
"Becker attributed the new adroit, lighter, elegant style of play that has become a trademark of trainer Joachim Low's players to their homosexuality, in contrast to the typically more aggressive and offensive German style of past years," reported TPM Muckraker. The claim is interesting because it reverses the usual logic of such accusations.
Ida M, Tarbell--best known today as a muckraker (a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt to describe journalists who exposed abuses in American business and government)--was born in 1857 in Erie County, Pennsylvania; she received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Allegheny College.
The onscreen cynicism is provided by British muckraker Oswald Granger (Peter Gunn), who's looking to uncover Hannah Montana's "secret." He gets to do a lot of the pratfalls in the film.
The site grew to include a group blog, TPM Cafe, a campaign blog, Election Central, and an investigative arm, TPM Muckraker, with full-time Washington and New York reporters digging up political dirt under Marshall's direction.
Little writes the Muckraker column on environmental politics and policy published in Grist.org and Salon.com, as well as the Code Green column for Outside magazine.
However, unlike Upton Sinclair, Tim Carney is no socialist muckraker, for this book is not a novel, but an investigative report that reveals a dirty secret of American politics, namely, how Big Business works with both Republican and Democratic politicians to erode the freedom and economic well-being of consumers, taxpayers, and small businesses.
1934 California business interests declared war on Upton Sinclair, the socialist muckraker turned Democratic gubernatorial nominee.
The meat industry was unregulated, and the only person with the stomach to look closely at the resulting product was Upton Sinclair, muckraker extraordinaire.
If you wanted to be a muckraker, I bet you could find lots of bad things to list as the side effects of publishing a paper in our civilization.