muckraking
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The great muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair once said it was pretty much impossible to convince somebody of something if their money depended on them not believing or understanding it.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
As Davis observes, no muckraking was required and the Remigration Summit involved no closed-door meetings at undisclosed locations.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
“The seasoned families will never live on apartment house terms, like larvae in a honeycomb,” wrote the muckraking journalist Will Irwin in 1927.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Woodward and Bernstein had just changed the world with their muckraking, and what was I doing with my brand-new degree in journalism?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2025
He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
