Chapter 6, April 26th

During the late Nineteenth century, the economy started to expand a large amount of business. The energy that America was showing was one that had never been seen before. The country had also been establishing the founding fathers and laissez-faire policies had been adopted.

The section about attacking municipal corruption spoke about how Lincoln Steffens was the first muckraker and his career writing at the New York Evening Post covering and muckraking Wall Street and the politics in New York. In the section Busting the Trusts, Ida Tarbell's history of him being surrounded by derricks, tanks, and pipelines. She created the series "History of the Standard Oil Company." Tarbell has been called the queen of muckraking by the public. Awakening the Public to Dangerous Foods and Drugs was an in-depth look at the journalistic approach at presenting the public with the information of drug and really health awareness in general. The power that the press had was finally being combined with new information about dangerous issues. Exposing "Treason" in the U.S. Senate was a section that spoke about the earlier years of the twentieth century and how the upper house Congress was widely known as the body of America to take action and actually have major reactions. Lastly, Muckraking: An Unparalleled Legacy raps up the chapter with a section that speaks about the era of muckraking.

I think that Muckraking was a necessary form of journalism at the time. The public needed to know what was really going on in their own states and was interested to know the opinions of the writers and the journalists were happy to do that. If I lived in that era, I would probably want to see more muckraking going on because it was a more raw interesting form of news at that time.

 

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