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: --
He also wrote that his intentions are to move to screenwriting or muckraking.
The media have long operated as agents of moral indignation, even when they are not consciously engaged in crusading or muckraking.
The muckraking style fell out of fashion after 1917, as the media pulled together to support the war effort with minimum criticism of personalities.
The paper was a scandal sheet during the first years of publication, with a reputation for muckraking, sensationalism and criminal libel.
By the dawn of the muckraking era, employers increasingly turned to espionage services.
It is muckraking at its best and astonishingly prescient in its critique of the coziness of big media and other corporate interests.
Lippmann argues the increasing scope of government and integration of society led to the proliferation of muckraking.
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.
