muckraker

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.
2. isim One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s).

   “"Oh, in many ways. There are two classes of people who are not welcomed on the Canal Zone—magazine writers and applicants for positions who have political influence back of them. The former are regarded as muckrakers, the latter as spies."”

3. isim A sensationalist, scandalmongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.