• R.A.W. •AIM•Why were

the Muckrakers

so influential?Change for the better

spawned fromIndustrialization

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’sHistory of

Standard Oil(1904)

Lincoln Steffens’ The Shame of the Cities (1906)

Upton Sinclair’sThe Jungle

(1906)

Frank Norris’The Octopus

(1901)