Muckrakers In The 1920's

The primary sources used by Buk-Swienty consist of primarily excerpts from Riss’s journals, letters, or articles. These pieces of evidence provide descriptions of events that occurred from the perspective of Riis. This use of evidence is very beneficial because it provides proof that the events described by Buk-Swienty are not fictitious and truly occurred. Moreover, the primary sources also contribute to the description and perspective of Riis developed by readers. As a result of reading Riis’ journal entries and articles, readers are able to learn more about Riis’ character. His writings demonstrate his values as an individual as well as his own opinions. Not only does Buk-Swienty include primary source evidence fro Riis’ journals but he also displays numerous photographs taken of Riis and by him. These photos show the artistic abilities of Riis as well as adds further value to Buk-Swienty’s high opinion of the journalist. The photos taken by Riis illustrate the poverty in the slums, which demonstrates to the reader just how wretched poverty was in the tenements. Therefore, the primary source evidence presented by Buk-Swienty offers more insight into Riis’ life and demonstrates his opinions and

The history of the muckraker’s started when a group of reporters and Journalist uncover and reveal unformal and discrimination of wrong doing so serious that it made the peoples blood over flow,1902 started the strike of Lincoln Steffens that was published in the McClure’s Magazine call “Tweed Days in ST. Louis”. Steffens uncover how city officials work in large business to keep their contract and power, taken money from the public treasure, while other article began to emerge, so Steffens wrote a book call “The Shame of the Cities”. The Muckraker’s came up with the truth fact about the Socio – economic, and political problem that was happen in American. There were many changes far as social and politics across the board from the19th century to the start of the 20th century raising the public opinion by the way of sickness that were brought on by industrial revolution for examples; the arrangement between large organization, political machines, and bad working conditions. There were four main muckraker’s who started it all, Ida Tarbell, Thomas Lawson, Ray Stannard and Steffens. The Muckraker’s was famous about doing wrong and telling on very important people in the society, they were call dirt and grime because they would stool to their lowest about political corruption, business, and government problem, they also put an end to advertising by boycotting, while the magazines fell into

How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle classes. This work inspired many reforms of working-class housing, both immediately after publication as well as making a lasting impact in today's society. Vivid imagery and complex syntax establish a sympathetic tone which Riis uses to expose poverty to the general public and calls upon them to take action and make a difference.

During the 1890s to the 1920s cities began to grow, younger people, often children started working in factories, and muckrakers can to be. Many children had to work for their family instead of going to school. People started moving to the cities to get better jobs. Children often had to work in factories instead of going to school because they needed to help their family make money. Since children were working so young, muckrakers came about.

Being labeled a muckraker is a label I would not mind having. Without muckrakers how would we find out the whole truth about individuals and businesses, not just the stuff they tell us. Muckrakers find out information that is needed to be made public, but for whatever reason, is not told to the public. I support Mitford’s view that it is an honor to be called a muckraker.

This is a book was written by Jacob Riis, who was a muckraking journalist. Muckraker was a journalist who pushed for reform in publications that covered the issues of society for the middle and wealthy classes. In this book, Riis made a photographic report about the life of poor people in the tenements of New York.

The muckrakers wanted change and that is exactly the end result. Popular magazines, such as McClure's and Cosmopolitan, competed for readers and fueled the push for the provocative material. The bottom line for publishers was: the more shocking, the better (Click, n.d.). Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt, president of the United States from 1901-1908, nicknamed these investigative journalists muckrakers. He borrowed the term from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, in which a rake was used to dig up filth and muck.

Investigative journalism has brought to light the many horrible things that were happening behind closed doors. Without investigative journalism and muckrakers, when would we have ever become aware of what was happening. Up until the early 1900’s, food and medicine industries were not as regulated as they are today. Muckrakers such as Upton Sinclair experienced the reality of meat packaging plants. He found how unsanitary the food was handled and how horribly the workers were being treated. Sinclair was disappointed that people only got to realize that their food was being mishandled rather than how harsh the workers were being treated. He famously quoted “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”(gilderlehrman.org). Samuel Hopkins Adams exposed that patent medicines were dangerous. He explained that they were harming people rather than helping them

A cramped, smoky room filled with people working. A mother holding her child and gathering rags. The sick sleeping on the ground. What do these images have in common? They are all examples of photographs taken by a turn of the 19th century photographer named Jacob August Riis. Riis was not only a photographer, but also a reporter, a writer and a reformer. He used his skills to spur reforms and spur the minds of the public and the government throughout his life.

Her work for this magazine caught the attention of Samuel Sidney McClure, the founder of McClure’s Magazine, who was looking for writers for his new monthly publication. Tarbell was hired as an editor in 1894 and quickly became McClure’s Magazine‘s most successful writer. She became very successful due to her series on Abraham Lincoln which nearly doubled the number of magazines sold. Later on, a whole new generation of investigative journalists called “muckrakers”, given the name by President Theodore Roosevelt, began a campaign to expose corruption in businesses. Theodore Roosevelt gave these opinionated journalists the pessimistic label ‘muckrakers’ in a speech in 1906. Despite this negative label, Tarbell campaigned with the other journalists.

The first thing I will write about is a person, Jacob Riis. A esteemed author of the book “How the other half Lives”, published in the 1890s. Riis was a pioneer in the time when photography was first starting to catch on. In Riis’s photos he took pictures of people who lived in the slums of the major cities and how they lived. He was termed a Muckraker by our late president Theodore Roosevelt, because journalists like him would, as he would say, rake through all the good things and bad on the ground and only report the bad of the world. But Riis was one of the men of his era

Jessica Mitford, investigative journalist, believes that muckraking is a n act of “searching out and publicly exposing real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business.” However, this is not always the case. Whilst it is true that they (the media) go out to expose events that could be potentially dangerous, they are often trying to grasp at straws that may not even exist.

In the Progressive Era, influential journalists wanted to expose the government and big business of their flaws to American citizens with using factual and proven evidence against them. Muckrakers, who are journalists that seek out the truth of corruption among the government and business leaders, became well known due to how many people were amazed by the revealed injustices and dishonesty in the

Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and Upton Sinclair were part of the muckrakers, investigative writers who exposed bad conditions in the Americans factories, political corruption in city machine, and financial deceit of corporations. The New Freedom used the government to destroyed, big businesses and give smaller businesses the greater

Racism has been a huge problem in the U.S. for many decades now, and a big action that