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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by hoorayimhelping on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:54PM (#11878387)
I'm American and I've only heard a muckraker described as number 2.
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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by smt88 on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:57PM (#11878425)
ProPublica, one of my favorite investigative news sources, describes some of their articles as "muckreads". They use the word proudly, with the implication that they've gone to lengths that the general public would/could not to find out important information.

As someone said, it was a pejorative term that was reclaimed, and that makes a lot of sense to me now.

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by johnpowell on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:00PM (#11880448)
Talking Points Memo does the same.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by omonra on Friday June 10, 2016 @03:31PM (#11879286)
It was part of the American History 11th grade course I took in HS in the early 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker

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