muckrake

• “HOFFER: And it has a kind of muckrake -- or a sort of -- you know, muckrakers at the beginning of the 20th century were attacking the robber barons, the great industries, for their abuses, the way they abused their workers, they way they abused public trust, and so on.”

  Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin

• “It is neither our purpose nor our desire merely to "muckrake" Pittsburg or any other city.”

  "Instead of an Article : About Pittsburg and, Incidentally, about Editing a Magazine"

• “The noun "muckrake" (literally, a rake for "muck," i.e., manure) rose out of the dung heap and into the realm of literary metaphor in 1684.”

  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

• “Come on, every year the Globe and the Herald muckrake the dozens of Boston Police officers whose overtime and detail pay pushes them over the $100K/year mark.”

  In the ballpark

• “Irrespective of the director's stated intent (see my interview below) to not muckrake (for lack of a better phrase) he inadvertently does, while straddling a fine line, also inadvertently serving the company's interest, by structuring a grand apologia and cautionary note to the future.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Vazquez: Weekend Film: On Into Eternity

• “CNN stop covering this moron just to muckrake Palin, practice some responsible journalism .... heck, even the liberals I know are getting tired of your sensationalism.”

  Johnston says Palin lost his vote

• “If you want to muckrake old business, let's talk about the Kennedy's and Marilyn Monroe or Chappaquiddik.”

  Obama uses Daschle to make blue-collar pitch in new SD spot

• “But there's a problem: if you are going to muckrake with science, you need to be able to refute scientific evidence which doesn't agree with your hypothesis.”

  Trevor Butterworth: The Case Against Worrying About Phthalates in Children's Toys

• “It's one thing to muckrake with our military under the guise of a threat to our nation's security, but that excuse went out the window years ago.”

  Barack Obama Redefines the "Center" of our Nation's Defense Against Terror

• “In the widely disseminated April speech, Roosevelt indicted a type of journalist who, he said, "never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muckrake, speedily becom [ing] not a help to society, not an incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller'

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