Sentence examples for muckraker from inspiring English sources

The appointment of Mr Olivera, an outspoken and erratic muckraker, was greeted with derision.

The White House has painted him as a partisan muckraker, and most Americans have accepted this.

Having discovered his vocation as a cultural muckraker, he eventually secured an audience, a market and even the offer (which was refused) of Westminster Abbey as a final resting place.

If every reporter was asking hard questions then they couldn't just isolate a Helen Thomas [the long-time White House reporter, now a columnist, whose seat in the White House press room was taken away after one confrontation] and make an example of her".How's Mr Stark going to convert every reporter into a muckraker?

The name muckraker was pejorative when used by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in his speech of April 14, 1906; he borrowed a passage from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, which referred to "the Man with the Muckrake…who could look no way but downward".

Also well regarded were Kaplan's Lincoln Steffens: A Biography (1974), about the prominent journalist and muckraker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and Walt Whitman: A Life (1980), which won a National Book Award.

He then went on to call Guru-Murthy a "bottom-feeding muckraker" after pointing out his history of run-ins with interviewees including director Quentin Tarantino.

But muckraker also came to take on favourable connotations of social concern and courageous exposition.

Rich Gottlieb, the owner of Rock and Snow, in New Paltz, and a wise man of the Shawangunks, said that he considers Robert "almost a physical muckraker, there to just break us right out of our shells".

Pro-military lobby group Move America Forward is campaigning to "Stop Michael Moore from profiting in his attacks on America and our military"; Michael Wilson is making a documentary called Michael Moore Hates America; and the website www.moorelies.com is out "to expose America's fakest pseudo-muckraker".

So it didn't take long for TPM Muckraker to reveal that the Atlantic, a low-profile though influential public-policy magazine, had held about 100 similar events since 2003, sponsored by corporations such as General Electric, Microsoft and the insurance company Allstate.