muckrake

Example Sentences

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He made a fortune on PayPal and Facebook, sued the satirical muckraking publication Gawker into its grave and has spent the last several years funding or building a nearly invisible media empire.

From Salon

"The smear campaign and muckraking against me is one thing, but questions about my son have crossed the line, and I will not tolerate it," he added.

From Salon

All of those issues were not imagined by a muckraking, scurrilous news media; they are not proof of some sweeping anti-Barcelona and yet somehow also anti-Madrid conspiracy.

From New York Times

In other words, as the muckraking novelist Upton Sinclair used to say: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

From Salon

But for the past 12 months, they have been under the harsh spotlight of muckraking online investigators and of police blotters.

From New York Times