10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUCK-RAKING»
Discover the use of
muck-raking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
muck-raking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
In America muck-raking depended directly on the development of popular
newspapers and mass- circulation magazines. The publishers of magazines
such as McClure's, which touched off the whole muck-raking movement by
printing articles ...
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Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... both the times I have mucked it up Muck-raker: Person who is always looking
for scandal * A muck-raker is despised by everyone Muck-raking: Anything
disgusting or dirty * Those who involve themselves in muck-raking cannot save
their ...
MOORE: Pardon me for saying so, Mister President, but I feel that somehow, with
this muck-raking business and all, what you're in fact saying has some deep
spiritual connotations. Am I right? ROSSEVELT: “Spiritually and ethically we must
...
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Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words that Shaped Our Age
The derived muck-raking is first recorded in 1911. 1911 New York Evening Post:
The same articles brought President Roosevelt to the defence of the Senate, and
led him to apply the word 'muck-raking' to the literature of higher exposure.
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Who Said That First?: The Curious Origins of Common Words ...
Muck-raking. Long before the age of tabloid sensationalism or election campaign
dirty tricks, John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress was published in 1678. In it we are
shown: ...a Man that could look no way but downwards, with 223.
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Prejudices: First Series
... answers, but all of them fail to answer. In this emergency I offer one of my own.
It is this: that the muck-raking magazine came to grief, not because the public
tired of muck-raking, but because the muck-raking that it began with succeeded.
Many ingenious plans were evolved without avail, until "muck-raking" attacks
upon big businessmen and politicians were launched. These magazines, in
attempts to command public attention, directed assaults upon American politics
and civic ...
[Originally army slang.] muck-raking (derog) the activity of searching for and
making public scandalous information about a person or people: The politician
said that the incident referred to in the article had occurred twenty years ago,
before ...
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Annotated Texts for Translation: English-German : ...
The historical connotation of 'muck-raking' (in 1906, the American President
Roosevelt called critics of the social system 'muckrakers') is not relevant here and
might not even be obvious to ST readers. Moreover, 'muck-raking' was intended
in ...
Christina Schäffner, Uwe Wiesemann, 2001
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The Donation of Constantine: A Vision at the Roman Church ...
Muck-raking. News. reporters. The world and its affairs could not, for long, be
ignored, and once the clergy~sex~abuse~controversies settled down, the pope
and the Holy See were faced with new global challenges. The next round of
issues ...
Frederick Martin Fields, 2005
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUCK-RAKING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
muck-raking is used in the context of the following news items.
Hong Kong's civil service is among the best in the world
Despite the muck-raking by Occupy Central activists and their sympathisers, our police are still among the least brutal and corrupt, and that's ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
Why Tim Farron's Record on Gay Marriage Matters
In so doing, I have been variously decried as 'negative', 'muck-raking', engaging in 'dirty tricks', 'push polling', and worse. But asking people to ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
Canada shipwreck claims another victim 170 years later: a muck …
Canada shipwreck claims another victim 170 years later: a muck-raking journalist. Pulitzer prize winner Paul Watson says Toronto Star editors ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Exploring the “rot in American politics” with Frost/Nixon
... an important moment in history and one that gave rise to muck-raking journalism obsessed with scandals, gossip and political bias. “This is ... «Ubyssey Online, Jul 15»
Cole re-enters commissioner race as Independent
“I intend to run a clean campaign and will not stoop to the level of muck-raking we've witnessed in former political campaigns.” Cole said he ... «Uniontown Herald Standard, Jul 15»
Hold the World Cup in Qatar? You'd be better playing it on an iceberg
Despite BBC muck-raking, The Sun trusts Fifa to put football first.” This must be why the FBI made its arrests, it's concerned that Fifa executives ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jun 15»
Fifa corruption: Welcome, Sepp Blatter, to the pantheon of evil …
Despite BBC muck-raking, The Sun trusts Fifa to put football first.” David Cameron and Sepp Blatter greet each other outside Number 10 in ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
Please, FBI, investigate the 1966 World Cup – if only to shut up Greg …
Despite BBC muck-raking, the Sun trusts Fifa to put football first.” Even our football-loving prime minister is just another Englishman whose ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
What happens if FIFA revokes Qatar's World Cup bid?
A potential flip-side for Qatar losing the tournament would be the spotlight being turn off on labour rights issues and other muck-raking stories ... «Middle East Eye, Jun 15»
The Guardian view on the black spider memos: Prince Charles has …
... it was a Scandal of massive proportion and it turns out it wasn't. It is purely The Guardian's fault for muck-raking and they should cough up. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
