Muckraker

hard-hitting job that takes integrity and honor to accomplish. To be a muckraker would be a commendation to any prominent individual or business. Muckraking is a demanding job that requires guts and imperative values from risk takers due to the menace that large corporations can be. Muckraking originated in the Progressive Era, which caused many reformations to be made so, naturally, it was a job for muckrakers to do. Muckrakers unfolded the truth about many corrupt politicians and rich…

elements each movement largely focused on its own goals. The Muckrakers (a group of Journalists and writers) were responsible for the spark that ignited the progressive movement. Muckrakers exposed problems in the American society and urged the public to identify solutions for them. No matter what the problem was the Muckrakers bought to the light and provoked outraged response from Americans. President Theodore Roosevelt knew many Muckrakers journalist well and consider himself as progressive.…

Upton Sinclair was one of the most influential muckrakers, a term coined by President Roosevelt. Sinclair was most known for his account of the meatpacking industry called The Jungle. The Jungle detailed the inhumane conditions workers in the meatpacking industry had to endure. Whether it was subjecting their skin and nails to acid in order to clean the meat or covering spoiled meat with chemicals to hide the rotten smell. Either way Upton Sinclair inspired President Roosevelt to pass the Pure…

of a lot of change in our government, sociality, and rights. People called Muckrakers solved problems that people didn´t realize that were happening. Muckraking is the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way. Muckraking journalism had a positive effect on the Progressive Era in the early 20th, but today it stills has the same effect. Some examples of muckrakers of today and in that time are Nellie Bly, Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair,…

writes for newspapers or magazines or prepares news to be broadcast on radio or television. I believe that Mitford did exactly both of those things to get the title “Queen of Muckrakers.” I agree with her view in saying that it is an honor to be called a muckraker. From someone who has no inside view in politics, I thank muckrakers, for letting people, like myself, know what’s going on, on the inside. For example, around 1963 funeral directors had been taking advantage of shocked and grieving…

they need.” (Anton et al). As described in this quote, Florida’s mental hospitals have turned into dangerous places for employees and patients. New levels of violence and major budget cuts have turned hospitals upside down, and thanks to these muckrakers it is now exposed to the public. Muckraking does still exist as demonstrated by Leonora LaPeter Anton in her series of articles published by the Tampa Bay Times (Anton et al). The series of articles has three authors, the first one being…

There were many problems during in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s. It was a very bad time for many. There was child labor, bad treatment in asylums, monopiles, muckrakers and more.These problems were later changed. Child labor was a major problem during the progressive era. Families who couldn't afford much had their kids work. From them being small they could climb into small areas and fix what's needed that adults can't do. The kids got payed less than adults which is why were…

In the "Man with the Muckrake", Roosevelt appeals to the journalists of withdrawing themselves from the position of a muckraker by connecting the action of publicizing a false image about someone to stealing. Roosevelt's use of diction conveys the immoral act the muckrakers are committing collectively. "The eighth commandment reads, 'Thou shalt not steal.' It does not read, 'Thou shalt not steal from the rich man.' It does not read, 'Thou shalt not steal from the poor man.' It reads simply and…

political power, wealth, and corporate control grew—causing an increase in dishonest methods of achieving power. Fighting to find the source of an increasing gap between the rich and the poor, muckrakers, or investigative journalists who worked to expose political scandals,…

a type of journalist known as a ‘muckraker’, one who looks to specifically investigate and reveal abuses kept hidden during the gilded age. Sinclair set his eyes on the meatpacking industry with The Jungle, providing abhorrent descriptions of the conditions in which American food was kept. The novel caught the attention of the nation and managed to get all the way to President Theodore Roosevelt. While Roosevelt had previously verbalized his distaste for muckrakers, the novel’s lurid…