The journalist was curious and slipped into the skin of such or such person, for example an insane woman or a worker, to understand her reality. Then she expounded the truth in the eyes of the world and enriched it with her experiences, commentaries, impressions. In 1880, the life conditions for the poor proved horribles. The average worker earned only one or twos dollars a week. In the rare asylums, the nurses sub-fed their patients, beat them. They offered them no care. So, Nellie Bly, during her experimentations, easily found suggestion to bring changes and insisted for their application. In fact, the interest of the woman for the mystery carried her away to discover the dregs of her society. Her exposures necessary created a pressure on
