muckrake
Example Sentences
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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
Wells muckraked the failings of the press, in other words.
From Salon
Ron Kaye, a longtime Los Angeles Daily News editor known for civically inspired muckraking and boosting the San Fernando Valley — including a failed bid for the Valley to secede from L.A. — has died.
From Los Angeles Times
“For the past six years, the public has been reading and hearing a prosecution and muckraking narrative about this case that is simply fundamentally wrong,” Morrison wrote in an email.
From Seattle Times
Jack Newfield, an editor who elevated the Voice’s muckraking, compared his investigative reporting on a story about children who died from lead poisoning to “method acting.”
From Los Angeles Times
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