0 the activity, especially by newspapers and reporters, of trying to find out unpleasant information about people or organizations in order to make it public:
At the end of the nineteenth century muckraking journalists and popularizers began to pick up on the methods and the information of government quantifiers.
Muckraking and mudslinging: the joys of deposit-feeding.
I have little doubt that, when it comes to the test, such muckraking will get them nowhere.
How can raising the hardship and misery of individuals and others, and the possible failure to act properly, be regarded as muckraking?
Behind all the muckraking about the privileged position of civil servants lies a deep and serious concern.
Very clumsily done, with all the familiar techniques of exaggerated language, quotations taken out of context, generalisations from one or two bad examples and rather obscure muckraking.
In an era of... muckraking, the commission raised the technique to an unprecedented height.
As the city became a centre for gambling, illegal activity became rife and many muckraking scandals emerged in the press during the 1950s and 1960s.
