muckraker

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

muckrakersmuck-rakermuck raker

1.
(US)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.
Đồng nghĩa: investigative journalist
2.
(US, historical)One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s).
3.
(British, derogatory)A sensationalist, scandalmongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.

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Đồng nghĩa

investigative journalist

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buckrakermuckrake

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Nguồn gốc từ

From muck + raker. Believed to have been coined following a 1906 speech by United States President Theodore Roosevelt, in which he likened the investigative journalist to ‘the Man with the Muck-rake’, a character in John Bunyan's ''The Pilgrim's Progress''.