•  December, 2015
R.A.W.
Change for the better
spawned from
Industrialization
• AIM
• Why were
the
Muckrakers
so
?
influential
Investigative Journalists today lead
to change
I. How did the
Progressives get their
concerns PUBLIC?
• Muckrakers
• Journalists, writers,
artists, & photographers
A.Muckrakers
• TV? RADIO? COMPUTER?
• NEWSPAPERS – 2 Editions a
day!!
• Muckrakers in the turn of the
century satisfied our need for
expose journalism
•  Ida Tarbell--exposed John
Rockefeller’s monopoly.
•  Jacob Riis--the lives of the poor
in New York.
•  Lincoln Steffens--Corruption in
New York City’s government.
•  Upton Sinclair--the
mistreatment of immigrants in
meat packing plants(food!)
Jacob Riis’ How the
Other Half Lives
(1890)
Ida Tarbell’s
History of
Standard Oil
(1904)
Lincoln
Steffens’ The
Shame of the
Cities (1906)
Upton
Sinclair’s
The Jungle
(1906)
Frank Norris’
The Octopus
(1901)