muckrake

Woodward and Bernstein had just changed the world with their muckraking, and what was I doing with my brand-new degree in journalism?

Wells muckraked the failings of the press, in other words.

Ron Kaye, a longtime Los Angeles Daily News editor known for civically inspired muckraking and boosting the San Fernando Valley — including a failed bid for the Valley to secede from L.A. — has died.

What if the American mainstream news media exercised even one-tenth of the scrutiny, rumor mongering and muckraking, personal and professional invective and score-settling towards Donald Trump that they directed at President Biden?

The report is the latest sign of the muckraking and personal mudslinging expected in the election.