Robert Fisk is a Middle East correspondent for British newspaper The Independent. He is regarded as one of the most well respected and well known foreign correspondents in international journalism. Fisk was born in Kent, England where went to school at Lancaster University and then earned his PhD in Political Science at Trinity College in […]
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Teddy Roosevelt: the man who coined the “muckraker”
Posted by: Alex Howard | December 2, 2009 | 3 Comments |When people think of the term, “muckraker,” what comes to mind are some of the people that changed the history of the world forever. Some of those people include Nellie Bly, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Upton Sinclair, and plenty of others. According to the dictionary, a muckraker is someone who seeks to expose corruption […]