muckraker
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Even Lincoln Steffens, the celebrated muckraker who testified on his behalf at trial, wrote in a private letter: “What do I care if he is guilty as Hell.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024
I suspect future culture historians will view "Soylent Green" in the same manner that they today regard the 1906 novel "The Jungle" by progressive muckraker Upton Sinclair.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2023
Ida Tarbell, a pioneering muckraker turned Lincoln biographer, believed they were real.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2023
Despite the uproar caused by “Titicut Follies,” Wiseman has never considered himself a muckraker or a journalist.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2020
By age twelve, I was a devotee of the political columnist Mary McGrory and the muckraker Jack Anderson.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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