muckraker

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Even Lincoln Steffens, the celebrated muckraker who testified on his behalf at trial, wrote in a private letter: “What do I care if he is guilty as Hell.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024

I suspect future culture historians will view "Soylent Green" in the same manner that they today regard the 1906 novel "The Jungle" by progressive muckraker Upton Sinclair.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023

Ida Tarbell, a pioneering muckraker turned Lincoln biographer, believed they were real.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2023

Its resident muckraker, Wayne Barrett, took aim at New York developers and politicians for nearly 40 years, and his obsessive work on Donald J. Trump has become a resource for reporters covering the president today.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2018

By age twelve, I was a devotee of the political columnist Mary McGrory and the muckraker Jack Anderson.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove