In publishing, a mucker (or muckraker) is a person who digs through the figurative feces (see On a farm) to find the truth.
She met the U.S. journalist and 'muckraker' Lincoln Steffens at the Versailles Conference, where she was secretary to US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.
Lebrecht was described by musicologist Richard Taruskin as "a sloppy but entertaining British muckraker".
In an April 20, 2007 article TPM muckraker reporter Paul Kiel noted:"the federal appeals court released its written opinion on the case. And it wasn't any more sparing than the verbal remarks (e.g. that the evidence was "beyond thin") of the judges when they made the ruling.
He was one of the early muckraker journalists, and gained fame when he discovered a secret weapons sale from Norway to Fulgencio Batista.
Some of the interviewees included musicians Chuck D and Will Oldham (AKA Bonnie “Prince” Billy), perennial St. Paul muckraker and political candidate Bill Dahn, and conspiracy theorist Jaye Beldo.