muckraking

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.

“For the past six years, the public has been reading and hearing a prosecution and muckraking narrative about this case that is simply fundamentally wrong,” Morrison wrote in an email.

Jack Newfield, an editor who elevated the Voice’s muckraking, compared his investigative reporting on a story about children who died from lead poisoning to “method acting.”