What's the difference between muckraker and mudslinger?
Muckraker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) From the early pamphleteers – Tom Paine for one – to the muckrakers who fought injustice such as Nellie Bly; from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed ; from Mother Jones to the Pentagon papers, the words that shook America mostly came from passionate reporters with a cause to champion.
(2) A series of muckraking TV documentaries accused Luzhkov of fleeing Moscow during August's devastating forest fires and caring more about his bees than the city's smog-choked residents.
(3) It suggests a shoulder to lean on when the going got tough a few months back following the muckraking.
(4) If the prime minister was unaware of this muckraking, the Tories say, he should have known; and it reflects badly on the culture of his administration that his aides thought such practices acceptable - particularly as they involved MPs' families.
(5) And of those who have heard of him, more than half trust his muckraking exposés of the corruption endemic among Russia's elite.
(6) That's tough competition, but in hindsight, it is clear that "A Bunny's Tale" complements Friedan and Plath and deserves to be honored, rather than forgotten as it has been, for the serious muckraking journalism it is.
(7) Because of his role as a muckraking reporter, Brown has attracted defenders like Glenn Greenwald and Rolling Stones' Michael Hastings, who died last week in a car accident.
(8) It would be a worrying sign if the architect of our new system of press regulation were to dismiss evidence of a possible breach of professional standards in a public inquiry merely as muckraking by certain elements of the press and unworthy of proper consideration.
(9) Pravda.ru also sponsors politonline.ru , a website known for its muckraking smears against Russia's opposition.
(10) Long before the internet had been invented, the legendary muckraking reporter Claud Cockburn explained why.
(11) It does not even knock politely, but kicks it off its hinges, trampling taboos, totems, rules and privacy in its muckraking wake.
(12) In 1957 the well-known Washington journalist Drew Pearson, known as a muckraker, pronounced of Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage, published the previous year: "Jack Kennedy is … the only man in history that I know who won a Pulitzer prize on a book which was ghostwritten for him."
(13) In 1951 when muckraking Liberian school-teacher and journalist Albert Porte wrote an open letter to the Liberian president questioning his purchase of a luxury yacht on the nation's dime, William Tubman wrote back, accusing Porte of having an anarchical spirit and inviting him for a cruise: Your spirit appears to me to be anarchical.