muckraking
noun
[ ˈmʌkreɪkɪŋ ]
• the action of searching out and publicizing scandal about famous people.
• "a muckraking journalist"
Origin:
coined by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech (1906) alluding to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the man with the muck rake .
muckrake
verb
• search out and publicize scandal about famous people.
• "independent media are not afraid to muckrake and set their own agenda"
