Also, muckrakers did not offer many solutions for all the issues they were able to describe in such precise detail. The writers were usually “optimists who believed that their society needed reform, but not sweeping institutional change, and that merely exposing wrongdoing to the public would lead to improvement.” (Chalmers 47) This signifies that while the muckrakers did raise awareness to many of these corrupt issues, they were usually unable to offer a way to fix them because often times they were powerless against the greater powers within the government because these political leaders had power. Roosevelt was angry at the muckraker movement because the muckrakers were exposing the poor sanitation in meat making business which was obviously nit a positive for business. “The government doesn't care about the people; they care about business.” (Swados 34) Roosevelt didn't really like the muckrakers because they always got the public’s attention for all the negative things that were occurring around them but they never attempted to demonstrate how anything that was being done at this time had a positive effect on the American
Also, muckrakers did not offer many solutions for all the issues they were able to describe in such precise detail. The writers were usually “optimists who believed that their society needed reform, but not sweeping institutional change, and that merely exposing wrongdoing to the public would lead to improvement.” (Chalmers 47) This signifies that while the muckrakers did raise awareness to many of these corrupt issues, they were usually unable to offer a way to fix them because often times they were powerless against the greater powers within the government because these political leaders had power. Roosevelt was angry at the muckraker movement because the muckrakers were exposing the poor sanitation in meat making business which was obviously nit a positive for business. “The government doesn't care about the people; they care about business.” (Swados 34) Roosevelt didn't really like the muckrakers because they always got the public’s attention for all the negative things that were occurring around them but they never attempted to demonstrate how anything that was being done at this time had a positive effect on the American