What is an example of muckracking?

Answer 1

it's when someone brings into public attention shady practices like bribery or other corrupted behaviour for example in the form of journalism ============================================= Muckraking is a sleazy way for a politician or journalist to gain attention by stirring up something, whether real or merely alleged or insinuated, about another politician's past.

Answer 2

Muckracking is when writers whose exposés of corruption in business and government aroused public opinion and helped spur Progressive-Era reforms.