{"id":12693,"date":"2010-01-16T20:55:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T04:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/01\/16\/buckraking.html"},"modified":"2010-01-16T20:55:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T04:55:56","slug":"buckraking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/01\/16\/buckraking\/","title":{"rendered":"buckraking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apparently, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/buckraking\">buckraking<\/a>\" refers to a journalist taking a lot of money for a speaking engagement, especially speaking to a group that has a particular agenda; such a payment may cast doubt on the journalist's objectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the etymology (a portmanteau of \"buck\" and \"muckraking\"), the term doesn't actually have anything to do with muckraking; the word \"muckraking\" is apparently a stand-in here for \"journalism,\" plus of course the pun\/joke that the journalist is raking in the bucks.<\/p>\n<p>I'd never heard the term before, but apparently it goes back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/diary\/167\/\">at least 2002<\/a>, when NBC banned it. (Though the phrasing of that piece is ambiguous; perhaps NBC banned the practice under a different name.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, &#8220;buckraking&#8221; refers to a journalist taking a lot of money for a speaking engagement, especially speaking to a group that has a particular agenda; such a payment may cast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}