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Muckraker vs Buckraker - What's the difference?

muckraker | buckraker |

As nouns the difference between muckraker and buckraker

is that muckraker is 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 while buckraker is a well-connected journalist who uses his or her connections to earn a large sum of money from endeavors outside of ordinary work.

muckraker

English

Noun

(s)
  • (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.
  • (British) A sensationalist, scandal-mongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
  • (US, historical) One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the (the 1890s to the 1920s)

    • Derived terms

    * muckraking

    buckraker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A well-connected journalist who uses his or her connections to earn a large sum of money from endeavors outside of ordinary work.

    • Derived terms

    * buckraking