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muck·rak·ing
/ ˈməkˌrāking/
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n.
the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way:
candidacy was threatened by her opponent’s muckraking |
as [adj.]
a muckraking journalist.
DERIVATIVES:
muck·rake
/ -ˌrāk/ v.
muck·rak·er
/ -ˌrākər/ n.
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The muckrakers: Evangelical crusaders.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Newspaper Research Journal; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...The Paradoxical Muckraker; James Kates...Leonard, Did the Muckrakers Muck Up Progress...within a single muckraker. Inevitably, any discussion of the muckrakers and the Progressive...a return to the muckraker model as "a return...and spirit of the muckrakers - who were indignant...
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The Muckrakers: Evangelical Crusaders
Magazine article from: Journalism History; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the heart and soul of the muckrakers. Bruce J. Evensen of DuPaul...for instance, that the muckrakers were evangelicals, motivated...argues that at least one muckraker, Lincoln Steffens, was a...the good A large group of muckrakers were women who were spearheading...
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The Muckrakers: how a group of writers in the early 20th century exposed troubling cases of corruption in America.(AMERICAN HISTORY)
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic; 2/20/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Students should understand * The muckrakers were investigative reporters...America. * Writers such as the muckrakers are crucial to the process...an excerpt from one of the muckraker's work (see p. T-7 for...wore their nickname: the muckrakers. At the turn of the 20th...
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Ambrose Bierce Takes on the Railroad: The Journalist as Muckraker and Cynic / Ambrose Bierce: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources
Magazine article from: Journalism History; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...The Journalist as Muckraker and Cynic. Westport...twentieth-century muckrakers and as a cynic. The...of the writer as a muckraker was not so easy. To...investigative techniques of the muckrakers, especially during...successful in attaching the muckraker label to Bierce, his...
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Journalistic Advocates and Muckrakers/Three Centuries of Crusading Writers
Magazine article from: Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Journalistic Advocates and Muckrakers/ Three Centuries of Crusading...classifies as either advocates or muckrakers. He includes a short list of representative...informative look at advocates and muckrakers. He includes profiles of the famous...
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Muckrakers made mounds of trouble. (muckraking journalism may have aided in the increase of federal power)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 7/7/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...solution for America's problems. The muckrakers gave Americans exposes of corruption...and bad drugs were other issues the muckrakers seized upon and made their own: the...the time -- even ones carrying the muckrakers' articles: "Cancer cured with sooting...
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THE MUCKRAKERS: EVANGELICAL CRUSADERS.(Review)
Magazine article from: Columbia Journalism Review; 1/1/2001; ; 574 words
; THE MUCKRAKERS: EVANGELICAL CRUSADERS...Praeger. 182 pp. $65 The muckrakers of nearly a century ago...that they not be called muckrakers. The volume is much enhanced...prolific and persistent muckraker Charles Edward Russell...
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American business; Don't blame muckrakers for its image.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 10/20/1998; 700+ words
; ...the work of turn-of-the-century muckrakers. Some of them, the magazine's current...is wrong in excessively blaming the muckrakers for any bad business image yesterday...contributor was business itself. The muckrakers wrote about business avarice, debauchery...
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Profile: Prize-winning `muckraker' Jack Anderson dies
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 12/17/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Profile: Prize-winning `muckraker' Jack Anderson dies Host...known as one of the last great muckrakers, died today at the age of...one who coined the term `muckraker,' and he did not mean it...because he was so clearly a muckraker that he was sort of held apart...
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MODERN MUCKRAKERS.(investigative journalism)
Magazine article from: Book; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...hundred years old. They are MODERN MUCKRAKERS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT CAROLYN JOHNSEN...your way. That's the creed of the muckraker. Muckraking sounds messy, and it is...Wrestling Federation characters. Modern muckrakers aren't always easy to distinguish...
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Muckrakers
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
MUCKRAKERS MUCKRAKERS. Writers whose expos é s of corruption in business and government...and behold the celestial crown. Likewise, Roosevelt argued, the muckrakers remained so focused on the evils in society they failed to reaffirm...
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muckrakers
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
muckrakers name applied to American journalists...agreed with many of the charges of the muckrakers but asserted that some of their methods...Everybody's, and Collier's that the muckrakers were provided with sufficient funds...
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Patent-Medicine Advertisements
Book article from: American Decades
...investigative work of distinguished muckrakers such as Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell...for joining the ranks of irresponsible muckrakers, but the magazine's popularity picked...years in Congress, the work of the muckrakers in 1904-1906 created an irresistible...
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Ida Minerva Tarbell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1857-1944) is known as the muckraker who cracked the oil trust...McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers (1970), has extensive biographical...Regier, The Era of the Muckrakers (1932), and David Mark...and Political Ideas of the Muckrakers (1964). □
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Tarbell, Ida 1857-1944
Book article from: American Decades
TARBELL, IDA 1857-1944 Muckraker Born in an Oil Boom Ida Tar-bell...Brady, Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker (New York: Seanew Putnam, 1984...Nostrand, 1974); Louis Filler, The Muckrakers (University Park: Pennsylvania...
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