muckrake
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She wasn’t there to muckrake but to grasp what happens when the object of laboratory study is not a molecule or a rat but a human being.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2018
And it’s not just foreign operatives that we must beware of - deep-pocketed special interests here can muckrake online with little or no accountability, too.
From Washington Times ● May 9, 2018
At the 1906 Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, President Theodore Roosevelt first likened crusading journalists to a man with "the muckrake in his hand."
From US News ● Mar. 17, 2015
In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt first likened crusading journalists to a man with “the muckrake in his hand” in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2011
Of Walt Whitman it is: "The dirty, clumsy paws of a harper whose plectrum is a muckrake."
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
Wells muckraked the failings of the press, in other words.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
Samuel Hopkins Adams muckraked the patent-medicine industry, and Congress swiftly enacted the Pure Food and Drug Act.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair once said it was pretty much impossible to convince somebody of something if their money depended on them not believing or understanding it.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
As Davis observes, no muckraking was required and the Remigration Summit involved no closed-door meetings at undisclosed locations.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
“The seasoned families will never live on apartment house terms, like larvae in a honeycomb,” wrote the muckraking journalist Will Irwin in 1927.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Woodward and Bernstein had just changed the world with their muckraking, and what was I doing with my brand-new degree in journalism?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2025
He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
