Who is this muckraker?
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Muckraker
Synonyms for "muckraker" (49 found)
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French
1 entries- fouille-merde noun (A scandal-mongering person who is not driven by any social principle)
German
2 entries- Muckraker noun (One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values)
- investigativer Journalist noun (One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values)
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For three years on that most sensational of the New York dailies he had been the star man, the chief muckraker, the chief sleuth.
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The paper gave a start to the theater critic Hilton Als and the novelist Colson Whitehead, both recipients of the Pulitzer Prize. 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.
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"Oh, in many ways. There are two classes of people who are not welcomed on the Canal Zone—magazine writers and applicants for positions who have political influence back of them. The former are regarded as muckrakers, the latter as spies."
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