We Need Muckrakers to Take on Plutocrats Like Jeff Bezos. Instead, We Got David Pecker.

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John D. Rockefeller’s cartel was brought down by a lone woman reporter in defiance of a president. How much things have changed.

Published Feb. 16 2019 9:56PM EST

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As Jeff Bezos faces down the squalid celebrity tabloid machine of David Pecker, it gives him at least one thing in common with an earlier American plutocrat, John D.

Clive Irving

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We Need Muckrakers to Take on Plutocrats Like Jeff Bezos. Instead, We Got David Pecker.

John D. Rockefeller’s cartel was brought down by a lone woman reporter in defiance of a president. How much things have changed.

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Clive Irving