muckraking

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If the prime minister was unaware of this muckraking, the Tories say, he should have known; and it reflects badly on the culture of his administration that his aides thought such practices acceptable - particularly as they involved MPs 'families.

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  • He had never regarded himself as a muckraking journalist. —  SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES MAGAZINE
  • American political muckraking is nothing new, but to drag an innocent disabled baby and a 16 year-old girl into it is nauseating in the extreme … —  politicalbetting.com
  • Cohen and Park School Dean Dianne Lynch have brought in several speakers from the world of independent media over the past 14 months or so, including a documentary filmmaker, a muckraking author and a highly influential blogger. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
  • Just so, inquiring into Bristol Palin's pregnancy and her personal choices out of curiosity or a desire to shame is the height of offensive, invasive muckraking, fit for Teen People or US Weekly, but beneath even this modest publication. —  Yes To Democracy
  • Samuel Freedman in the Jerusalem Post: "[T] the scandal of Agriprocessors has been chronicled from Stephen Bloom's book Postville to Nathaniel Popper's investigative reports in the Forward to Julia Preston's coverage in The New York Times to the muckraking blogger FailedMessiah. com." —  FailedMessiah.com
 

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