All throughout the history of America business people and their companies have gotten away with manipulation and corruption. Some people didn’t know about the corruption, while others chose to ignore it. However, there were some people called Muckrakers, who dug up the truth and shared it with the world. Ida Tarbell was one of those people. Ida Tarbell helped to invent modern journalism, presented the truth about many political ideals, and exploited John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company. Tarbell’s life made America a better place.
Tarbell helped to invent modern journalism. She was one of the nation's first influential female reporters. She did not intend to become a journalist; but as she struggled to find well enough paying work, …show more content…
She focused on the world around her, such as the Standard Oil Company, the injustices of the tariff system, and the sufferings of the factory worker. Her hard work in journalism and investigative research helped her to become one of the most well-known muckrakers that ever lived. In one of Tarbell’s writings called “A Tariff-Made City”, she talks about a man working for twelve hours a day for seven days a week. She explains that this is why men who have no family “drown fatigue at night in saloons and brothels”. She then shares the wage problems, horrible working condition, child labor issues, and the poor school system. She is giving out true information for everyone to read. Tarbell made it possible for her readers to experience the painstaking detail some of the important but distant issues affecting their lives. This information helped change the future of …show more content…
Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company. Tarbell is best remembered for her work on Standard Oil and its Rockefeller. Between 1902 and 1904, she wrote a series of articles that exposed the lengths to which Rockefeller went to build and maintain his oil empire. Concerned that modern day political machines and laissez-faire capitalism were undermining traditional American values, Tarbell committed herself to rooting out and exposing corruption. In 1904, she published The History of the Standard Oil Company. In it, she tells the story of how he illegally put her father, and many other small oil business owners, out of business. Rockefeller’s plan was enough that it could prevent any one in the future going into the business. Tarbell ultimately exposed to everyone just how much corruption in the oil business was going
Tarbell helped to invent modern journalism. She was one of the nation's first influential female reporters. She did not intend to become a journalist; but as she struggled to find well enough paying work, …show more content…
She focused on the world around her, such as the Standard Oil Company, the injustices of the tariff system, and the sufferings of the factory worker. Her hard work in journalism and investigative research helped her to become one of the most well-known muckrakers that ever lived. In one of Tarbell’s writings called “A Tariff-Made City”, she talks about a man working for twelve hours a day for seven days a week. She explains that this is why men who have no family “drown fatigue at night in saloons and brothels”. She then shares the wage problems, horrible working condition, child labor issues, and the poor school system. She is giving out true information for everyone to read. Tarbell made it possible for her readers to experience the painstaking detail some of the important but distant issues affecting their lives. This information helped change the future of …show more content…
Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company. Tarbell is best remembered for her work on Standard Oil and its Rockefeller. Between 1902 and 1904, she wrote a series of articles that exposed the lengths to which Rockefeller went to build and maintain his oil empire. Concerned that modern day political machines and laissez-faire capitalism were undermining traditional American values, Tarbell committed herself to rooting out and exposing corruption. In 1904, she published The History of the Standard Oil Company. In it, she tells the story of how he illegally put her father, and many other small oil business owners, out of business. Rockefeller’s plan was enough that it could prevent any one in the future going into the business. Tarbell ultimately exposed to everyone just how much corruption in the oil business was going