muckraker.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s).
A sensationalist, scandalmongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
Where this word comes from
From muck + raker. 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 The Pilgrim's Progress.
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