Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to business or special interest groups, especially when viewed as compromising the objectivity of journalists.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There is, in fact, a massive new truckload of baggage yet to be unpacked: the buckraking that former President Clinton has done in countries like Kazakhstan and Colombia.
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James Fallows and I have long followed the adventures of ABC's buckraking Cokie Roberts here, who, together with her husband Steve Roberts, accepts massive payments for speeches from industries with powerful stakes in issues she alleges to discuss without prejudice on ABC's "This Week" and elsewhere.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: Conflicts of Interest by the Wealthy and for the Wealthy 2009
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--- Between just the two of us, how did you get your husband to agree to such apparently full financial disclosures and curtailment of his oratorical mega-buckraking?
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Certainly Hillary Clinton feels aggrieved, though part of the problem with Clinton's critique is that her life in politics is so much longer and more controversial than Obama's that there is simply more to examine: it is the rare presidential contender, for instance, who is married to a buckraking former president who lobs grenades at the first plausible African-American candidate.
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This episode — which combines buckraking with pandering — brings back the Clinton years at their worst: the me-me-me selfishness, the occasional presumption that humanity exists to serve Team Clinton.
March 2006 2006
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So aides have come up with a plan to make the buckraking more fun: hit the resorts.
Fun Money 2008
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After the buckraking and the memoirs, Clinton says he wants to do some serious good in the world.
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This episode — which combines buckraking with pandering — brings back the Clinton years at their worst: the me-me-me selfishness, the occasional presumption that humanity exists to serve Team Clinton.
Archive 2006-03-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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You sit in Washington, in your secure and undisclosed location, sending our soldiers off to die, enriching the pockets of your buckraking pals at Halliburton who fleece us, making up crazy theories to justify your misdeeds, and now you allege that the current leadership of the Democratic party is one with terror?
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You sit in Washington, in your secure and undisclosed location, sending our soldiers off to die, enriching the pockets of your buckraking pals at Halliburton who fleece us, making up crazy theories to justify your misdeeds, and now you allege that the current leadership of the Democratic party is one with terror?
chained_bear commented on the word buckraking
"It's So Nice to Be Here: How Bill's big-dollar foreign buckraking is causing headaches for Hillary's campaign." Newsweek, April 21, 2008, p. 28
April 22, 2008