Sentences with word «muckraker»

The state Board of Elections investigative unit subpoenaed Manhattan Commissioner Al Schulkin to explain his bombshell comments, recorded by an undercover muckraker for the conservative Project Veritas.

When muckrakers reported on the scope of the AP's fake news operation during the strikes in Colorado and West Virginia, the AP simply cried fake news and flooded the wires with sanctimonious defenses of their journalistic professionalism.

If you just want to play Let it Die and are weary of muckrakers like me bringing up Lily Bergamo, you can find it at Pax East this weekend.

Not to be ruled out is that Trump might want to further punish Democrats in a state that hasn't voted Republican since Reagan in ’84 by appointing some hound - dog latter - day Thomas Dewey - like muckraker.

It grew into a huge monopoly, controlling about 90 % of US refineries and pipelines by the 1880s, and was nicknamed «The Octopus» by muckraker journalists.

Professional muckraker Bruce Livesey, in his new book Thieves of Bay Street, puts the lie to that notion of Canadian exceptionalism.

«The West Coast sales manager from one of the nation's biggest school book sellers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, told an undercover muckraker with Project Veritas that «I hate kids.»

But hark, there's some good news for office muckrakers: Increasingly, academics are finding that gossip might actually be good for business.

According to muckraker Upton Sinclair, syndicated «news» banked on this and knowingly spread fake news on behalf of the powerful interests that bought ads in their periodicals.

The only difference is that righteous muckrakers were usually the ones deploying the term.

This earned Morgan the occasional distrust of the federal government and the enmity of reformers and muckrakers throughout the country, but he remained the dominant figure in American capitalism until his death in 1913.

Political Biography of the Year Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead by W. Sydney Robinson (Robson Press)

Would the result have been the same, or would the story immediately have become what evil homophobic muckrakers the tabloids are?

Mayor Mike Bloomberg said Barrett was a «tenacious reporter in the tradition of the old muckrakers who could sniff out corruption and special interest politics a mile away.

The gold standard for this sort of true - life journalistic muckraker is, of course, «All the President's Men,» a movie that took place in the»70s, was made in the»70s, and tapped the alternating current of corruption and idealism that helped define the»70s.

, Season 8: America's favorite muckrakers are back on track for a whole new season of Penn and Teller: BS!

Spoto gets snarky before he gives light Freudian analysis around crutches, cigarettes, and pistols, and he generally plays the role of muckraker in a room full of legends.

Maybe it's that Schlosser, who co-wrote the script with Linklater, is a better muckraker than he is a storyteller.

Let us now praise semi-famous muckrakers: Walter «Robby» Robinson (Michael Keaton, now officially in a career renaissance), the seasoned editor who runs the paper's investigative team, Spotlight; reporters Matty Carroll (Broadway stalwart Brian d'Arcy James), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams), and Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo); and incoming editor - in - chief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), freshly plucked from Miami in July 2001 to help bring the Boston paper into the 21st century.

Writer - director John Herzfeld keeps introducing new players — Tom Sizemore, Kesley Grammer, Danny Trejo — when we'd much rather hang with Jane's cracked avenging angel cop or Stallone's paint - slinging muckraker or Cary Elwes» creepy Brit actor prone to groping his female co-stars.

Pedigree: Ferguson won an Oscar nomination for No End In Sight, and looks like he's prepped to steal Michael Moore's mantle as the progressive muckraker of choice.

But in the nearly 50 years since that one - two punch, he's given us some of the most memorable turns in American movies: Watergate muckrakers and Judge Wapner - loving savants, existential detectives and enraged divorcees, psychopathic gangsters and profane stand - ups, two - bit crooks and first - rate schnooks.

Muckraker James O'Keefe is releasing undercover Common Core videos.

Currently, there is no bigger scammer in the publishing industry than Author Solutions, whom indie author and modern muckraker David Gaughran has wonderfully tracked and written about over the past two years on his blog.

In this groundbreaking, hilarious book, «benevolent muckraker» Morgan Spurlock debuts a wry investigative voice that will appeal to anyone interested in the health of our country, our children, and ourselves.

«She writes like a poet, tells stories like a novelist, and reports like the finest muckraker.

Among other start - up muckrakers, John Oakes and Colin Robinson's OR Books has sold paperback rights to their first title, GOING ROUGE, to Michele Matrisciani at HCI Books — which is reissuing the book today.

Not in the pages of a prominent science publication, or by an experienced muckraker.

Book review: Muckraker Bruce Livesey delves into how the Canadian government bailed out corporations in the latest recession.

Like the muckrakers, he cries fake news to erode confidence in the mainstream media; like Progressive Era politicians, he cries fake news when he gets bad press.

W Sydney Robinson's Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of WT Stead, Britain's First Investigative Journalist (Robson, # 20) shows that our own tabloid journalists have much to live up to.

Schulkin, captured in a secretly - recorded interview by a muckraker for the conservative group Project Veritas, claimed the municipal ID program was contributing to «all kinds of fraud» — including at the polls.

It was controversial and left Wiseman with the reputation of being a muckraker.

The muckrakers report to assistant managing editor in charge of investigations Ben Bradlee Jr. (John Slattery of Mad Men), whose lineage helps to link this great newspaper film to another, All the President's Men.

Brimelow considers himself a muckraker, the term coined by Theodore Roosevelt to describe writers who highlighted corruption in government.

In a 1906 speech, Roosevelt branded some of the muckrakers» methods sensationalist and irresponsible - an apt description for Brimelow's book.

For this project, Students team up individually or in pairs and become modern day «muckrakers».

Topics students will study include: Muckrakers and progressives Women's Suffrage Conservation Temperance - prohibition hygiene and sanitation - the jungle, pure food and drug act I have provided links that take your students to the website that provides the answers.

«We need a steady stream... of strong military leaders and wise political leaders, dedicated journalists and demanding teachers, judges and muckrakers, scholars and critics and artists.»

David Henry Sterry is an author, a performer, muckraker, educator, activist, and book doctor.

Many of these «muckrakers,» including Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens, worked for McClure's magazine.

Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative Journalism.

I'm not a muckraker.