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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by idlewords on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:44PM (#11878285)
The term was coined as a perjorative (by Teddy Roosevelt) and then co-opted as a term of honor by the journalists he was attacking.
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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by davidmr on Friday June 10, 2016 @03:35PM (#11879324)
At least in my schooling, Upton Sinclair was held up as the very model of a muckraker, and he was certainly anything but (2) above. Perhaps sensationalist on occasion, but strongly principled.
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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by idlewords on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:15PM (#11880074)
Roosevelt was applying the term to journalists at publications like McClure's. There's a great book about this period by Doris Kearns Goodwin (The Bully Pulpit) that I can't recommend highly enough.
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