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Definition of muckraking in English: muckrakingnoun ˈmʌkreɪkɪŋˈməkˌreɪkɪŋ mass nounThe action of searching out and publicizing scandal about famous people. 搜集并揭发名人丑事 as modifier a muckraking journalist 揭丑记者。 Example sentencesExamples - Instead, Snider's point is that both sides settle for easy answers to complex problems, finding their solution in pointless blame-placing and muckraking.
- Rumours and muckraking is the stock in trade of the government and it came out public.
- That doesn't mean it shouldn't be done simply because this kind of muckraking exacerbates cynicism about public officials.
- They want you to think they're just investigating muckraking fools and tracked down this bust through a series of astute analyses and fancy footwork, when probably the total extent of their exertion was picking up a phone.
- The rest, though is a collection of opinion, commentary and muckraking, with a distinctive conservative bent.
- As usual, Jack has done a first-rate job of muckraking, but there is no way to disguise that boxing is planned savagery.
- Mainstream journalists used to leave such muckraking to the denizens of the swamp where tabloid reporters reside. Not any more.
- Meanwhile, I await your examples of innuendo, ad hominem attacks, muckraking, uncharity and namecalling in my article.
- It includes samples of muckraking, the classic literature of exposure of a hundred years ago, as well as generic muckraking - investigative reporting.
- This week on the Media Report we talk to prominent US journalists trying to halt the slide from genuine investigation to sensationalist muckraking.
- Schlosser does nothing more than repackage some of the same tired old myths about capitalism that earlier generations of muckraking socialists perpetrated.
- The rise of mass-circulation monthly magazines with an appreciative, national middle-class audience in the 1890s brought yet another sign of the reporter's authority: muckraking.
- They didn't want to inflame the envy of common people; they didn't want to expose themselves to muckraking scrutiny; they didn't want to endanger the security of their families.
- Do you have any muckraking journalists over there?
- Since then, the magazine has gained fame for its relentless muckraking.
- It is so unfortunate that there is still a need for journalistic muckraking.
- Forgive Green if he's still learning the art of muckraking.
- To bring it up now is surely muckraking is it not?
- Like old-fashioned muckraking, smearing people for political advantage is nothing new but it has recently become ‘respectable’ enough for the smearing to be done proudly, with no holds barred.
- But I hope that here we can avoid that kind of simplistic muckraking and have a serious discussion about judicial philosophy.
Synonyms malicious gossip, malicious rumour, malicious rumours, slander, libel, scandalmongering, calumny, defamation, aspersions, smear campaign
OriginCoined by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech (1906) alluding to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the man with the muck rake. Definition of muckraking in US English: muckrakingnounˈməkˌrākiNGˈməkˌreɪkɪŋ The action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way. 搜集并揭发名人丑事 as modifier a muckraking journalist 揭丑记者。 candidacy was threatened by her opponent's muckraking Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, I await your examples of innuendo, ad hominem attacks, muckraking, uncharity and namecalling in my article.
- The rest, though is a collection of opinion, commentary and muckraking, with a distinctive conservative bent.
- Rumours and muckraking is the stock in trade of the government and it came out public.
- Do you have any muckraking journalists over there?
- Instead, Snider's point is that both sides settle for easy answers to complex problems, finding their solution in pointless blame-placing and muckraking.
- This week on the Media Report we talk to prominent US journalists trying to halt the slide from genuine investigation to sensationalist muckraking.
- Like old-fashioned muckraking, smearing people for political advantage is nothing new but it has recently become ‘respectable’ enough for the smearing to be done proudly, with no holds barred.
- It includes samples of muckraking, the classic literature of exposure of a hundred years ago, as well as generic muckraking - investigative reporting.
- Mainstream journalists used to leave such muckraking to the denizens of the swamp where tabloid reporters reside. Not any more.
- The rise of mass-circulation monthly magazines with an appreciative, national middle-class audience in the 1890s brought yet another sign of the reporter's authority: muckraking.
- That doesn't mean it shouldn't be done simply because this kind of muckraking exacerbates cynicism about public officials.
- Since then, the magazine has gained fame for its relentless muckraking.
- As usual, Jack has done a first-rate job of muckraking, but there is no way to disguise that boxing is planned savagery.
- Schlosser does nothing more than repackage some of the same tired old myths about capitalism that earlier generations of muckraking socialists perpetrated.
- They want you to think they're just investigating muckraking fools and tracked down this bust through a series of astute analyses and fancy footwork, when probably the total extent of their exertion was picking up a phone.
- But I hope that here we can avoid that kind of simplistic muckraking and have a serious discussion about judicial philosophy.
- Forgive Green if he's still learning the art of muckraking.
- To bring it up now is surely muckraking is it not?
- It is so unfortunate that there is still a need for journalistic muckraking.
- They didn't want to inflame the envy of common people; they didn't want to expose themselves to muckraking scrutiny; they didn't want to endanger the security of their families.
Synonyms malicious gossip, malicious rumour, malicious rumours, slander, libel, scandalmongering, calumny, defamation, aspersions, smear campaign
OriginCoined by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech (1906) alluding to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the man with the muck rake. |