MUCKRAKER

Muckraker

The term muckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United States after 1900 and continued to be influential until World War I, when through a combination of advertising boycotts, dirty tricks and patriotism, the movement, associated with the Progressive Era in the United States, came to an end.

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muckraker

Noun

  1. 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.
  2. A sensationalist, scandal-mongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
  3. One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the (the 1890s to the 1920s)


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