(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.
Sensationalist
Definition:
(n.) An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.
(n.) One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) We had achieved so much in just a few hours, if the Liberal Democrats and Tories believe that the sensationalist reporting of a small minority's actions will somehow distract from the whole they are wrong.
(2) Stone says she sees a connection between sensationalist headlines and the kind of abuse she used to encounter regularly six years ago in Cambridge.
(3) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(4) The film woudn’t have had to become sensationalistic, but finding some sources of conflict, either internal or external, that went beyond the usual Republican-Democrat sparring would have saved it from some longuers .
(5) India's often ruthless and sensationalistic media had agreed to stay away.
(6) "We are the first to concede that much more work lies ahead of us, but we refuse to accept the sensationalist, media-oriented declarations of any group, especially when they are carping and filled with incorrect information.
(7) Osborne told the BBC in an interview recorded last Thursday after his remarks about Philpott: "I think where there's been division is when you get pressure groups and sensationalist media reports.
(8) Now that the first step has been taken and the problem has been acknowledged, the debate about how to reconcile our cherished rights and values is too important and intricate to be left to the simplified and sensationalist slogan of 'the right to be forgotten'.
(9) To me it wasn't titillating, sensationalist, or even entertaining, but in terms of the way female servants were treated by those above and below stairs, it was accurate: many were raped, mistreated or subjected to abuse.
(10) We are really frustrated with the number of sensationalist claims that are being made, not just about TalkTalk as a company but more importantly about customers losing millions and millions of pounds,” she said.
(11) "The ever-increasing pressures on the Parole Board to 'get it right' all the time are at least partially driven by sensationalist and relentless reporting of cases where people released by the Parole Board have gone on to commit appalling crimes," the report says.
(12) The coverage of Muslims in mainstream media continues to be very negative and there are too many sensationalist headlines that generalise about Muslims.
(13) This misguided, sensationalist and uncorroborated journalism only serves to direct attention away from the actual perpetrators in Egypt.
(14) The author examined four weeks of stories on the Associated Press Videotext service in early 1986 in an effort to evaluate the validity of critics' charges that journalists were over-emphasizing the role of homosexuals in the progress of the disease, and that their stories were laden with negative or sensationalistic terms.
(15) In 2007 I was accused of being a “sensationalist and scaremonger” by the UK Department of Health’s chief nursing officer after I’d said the problem of antibiotic resistance affected thousands of hospital patients – and would get much worse if something wasn’t done.
(16) In recent years, more and more interpersonal problems and issues have been discussed using highly sensationalist analogies with slavery.
(17) Then she vanished, sparking a police hunt, a murder inquiry and a narrative that has gripped the nation, culminating in an arrest that caused such a media stir that the attorney general warned against sensationalist reporting.
(18) Stewart Frater (@stewart_frater) Ed Miliband has the charisma of a shoelace #Miliband January 17, 2014 @SymonHill seemed to take issue with the reactionary and sensationalist commentary found on social media, particularly in the context of bipartisan politics.
(19) However, I do think that there has been a lot of sensationalist material put out there and maybe the time is coming that the government tries to start putting forward a constructive public health message that prepares the population with the correct information because knowledge is power essentially and if you have the right knowledge then you can feel secure in yourself.” “The essence to a public health message would be to keep it simple.
(20) The governing body described the claims as “sensationalist and confusing” while Lord Coe, an IAAF vice-president who is running for the organisation’s presidency, described the accusations as “a declaration of war on my sport” .