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What is MUCK RACK? Following a group of conservative people i know. Looks leftist. Organized opposition??www.muckrack.com
06.18.21 | Soup

Posted on 06/18/2021 5:05:08 PM PDT by Chickensoup

What is MUCK RACK? Following a group of conservative people i know. Looks leftist. Organized opposition??

www.muckrack.com


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To: Chickensoup

Idiots.

The term was,

Muck-RAKE.

Raking muck. Not racking muck.


21 posted on 06/18/2021 6:47:35 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: Openurmind

or semi skilled liars


22 posted on 06/18/2021 6:50:21 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Chickensoup

Public school kids that were never corrected ... muck rake .... just what it says .... stick a rake in the muck and pull back ... a muck raker


23 posted on 06/18/2021 7:03:14 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: Shoefus

Mike Wallace was a muckraker, in my opinion.


24 posted on 06/18/2021 8:28:54 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: M1911A1

And it’s nothing new. It’s just a 21st century brokerage site for the lowest sort of Hollywood humanity, i.e. Public Relations flacks. The Under-Assistant West Coast Promo Men of song and legend.

Never limited to show business. About 1985 I was involved in a “placed” story in an industrial trade magazine. My boss found the rag, who sent ‘round a “reporter”, and I was delegated to write the article for him.

Politics, same-same.

At racetracks they were called “touts”.


25 posted on 06/18/2021 8:49:53 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: Chickensoup

The web site is for Public Relations and press releases.

Muckraking was investigative journalism in to corruption and scandal in the late 1800’s early 1900’s.

Nellie Bly is a famous muckraker.

The website obviously just took the term for its name, but it has nothing to do with muckraking.


26 posted on 06/18/2021 11:47:26 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Shoefus

That’s muck raker as in a yellow journalist


27 posted on 06/18/2021 11:48:59 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Thanks RACPE.

28 posted on 06/19/2021 3:20:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Robert DeLong

I read that. But who developed it and who is it really for?

We live in a world of media manipulations and increasing evil.


29 posted on 06/19/2021 4:57:13 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Openurmind

Media manipulations?

Leftist narratives?


30 posted on 06/19/2021 4:57:59 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: PapaBear3625

Remember the leftist talking points emails during the Clinton years? I am trying to remember who sent them. Limbaugh uncovered it I think.

Looks like that onsteroids here.

The department of truth.


31 posted on 06/19/2021 5:01:21 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Celerity

Easy answer. They are reporters and they know nothing about anything

,............

But with the power to destroy


32 posted on 06/19/2021 5:02:48 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Don’t minimize.

Today the stakes are much higher.


33 posted on 06/19/2021 5:04:24 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup
Muck Rack Co-Founder Gregory Galant

Co-founded by Greg Galant and Lee Semel.

Muck Rack

Hope that is the information you are seeking, or at least helps you. 8>)

34 posted on 06/19/2021 5:32:14 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Chickensoup; xp38

Media manipulations?

Leftist narratives?

Would they conspire? You can bet they would, and have been for years now. “Well, let’s see what anti-trumper narratives are on the wire that I can repeat today in my article too”.

Same with “climate Change”. You can bet they feed off of each other to keep the narrative within controlled parameters.


35 posted on 06/19/2021 5:55:44 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Chickensoup

Know what? I am considering joining just to see what kind of Communist propaganda they are pumping each other up with in there... lol :)


36 posted on 06/19/2021 6:03:35 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Chickensoup

I think it is. I’ve run across them before.


37 posted on 06/19/2021 7:48:32 AM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: Chickensoup

I can tell you about my experience. I am a journalist, and recently almost lost a lucrative article assignment after a federal agency expressed concerns that I was a “muckraker.” I had no idea what they were talking about. After researching my name on that site (which included several of my articles) I found a way to contact them and have my name and articles removed.

I had no idea what this site was about or that my articles were on it.


38 posted on 06/19/2021 8:07:23 AM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: PapaBear3625

That site listed some of my articles without my permission. These articles were about government malfeasance. They had nothing to do with public relations.


39 posted on 06/19/2021 8:11:45 AM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: Chickensoup

Its a somewhat useful place to research a journalist’s professional background.

Important stuff like where/when a journalist attended college who their spouse is, and where they grew up is often missing.

A database that combined all those elements would be truly useful.


40 posted on 06/19/2021 8:22:15 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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