English Dictionary

muckraker

名詞

アメリカ英語 歴史的 イギリス英語 軽蔑的

(US) One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.

日本語の意味

（主にアメリカ）政治や社会の腐敗、不正、倫理に反する状況を調査し、その実態を暴露する人物、つまり調査報道ジャーナリストや告発者としての意味を持つ

The muckraker spent months sifting through public records to reveal the company's bribery scheme.

その調査報道記者は、企業の贈収賄の実態を暴くために何ヶ月も公的記録を精査した。

意味（1）

(US) One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.

The paper gave a start to the theater critic Hilton Als and the novelist Colson Whitehead, both recipients of the Pulitzer Prize. Its resident muckraker, Wayne Barrett, took aim at New York developers and politicians for nearly 40 years, and his obsessive work on Donald J. Trump has become a resource for reporters covering the president today.

意味（2）

(US, historical) One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s).

Oh, in many ways. There are two classes of people who are not welcomed on the Canal Zone—magazine writers and applicants for positions who have political influence back of them. The former are regarded as muckrakers, the latter as spies.

意味（3）

(Britain, derogatory) A sensationalist, scandalmongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.

muckrakers （ plural ）