Muckraker Definition
muckrakers
noun
muckrakers
(US) One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.
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(UK) A sensationalist, scandal-mongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
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(US, historical) One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s)
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Synonyms:
- mudslinger
- scandalbearer
- exposer
- meddler
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muckrakerPlural:
muckrakersOrigin of Muckraker
Believed to have been coined following a 1906 speech by United States President Theodore Roosevelt, in which he likened the investigative journalist to ‘the Man with the Muck-rake’, a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
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