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b!. style of political campaigning popularized by theodore roosevelt!. c!. style of journalism popularized by lincoln steffens and ida tarbell!. d!. genre of fiction popularized by upton sinclair and theodore dreiser!. e!. form of utopian fiction adopted by henry george and edward bellamy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I believe it's a political forum, using your political opponent as a scape goat and, blaming him on all the problems!. I don't know where the term came from however!.Www@QuestionHome@Com b!. style of political campaigning popularized by Theodore Roosevelt!. The term muckraker most associated with a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics from the late 1800s to early 1900s, who investigated and exposed societal issues such as conditions in slums and prisons, factories, insane asylums (as they were called at the time), sweatshops, mines, child labor and unsanitary conditions in food processing plants!. Muckrakers often wrote about impoverished people and took aim at the established institutions of society, sometimes in a sensationalist and tabloid manner!.!. Muckrakers were often accused of being socialists or communists!. In the early 1900s, muckrakers shed light on such issues by writing books and articles for popular magazines and newspapers such as Cosmopolitan, The Independent, and McClure's!. The term muckraker now also applies to contemporary persons who follow in the tradition of that period, and now covers topics such as fraudulent claims by manufacturers of patent medicines, modern-day slavery, child prostitution, and child pornography!. Although the term muckraking might appear to have a negative ring to it, muckrakers have often served the public interest by uncovering crime, corruption, waste, fraud and abuse in both the public and private sectors!. An example of a contemporary muckraker work is Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) and one of the more well known from the early period is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, (1906) which, respectively, led to reforms in automotive manufacturing and meat packing in the United States!. Some of the most famous of the early muckrakers are Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Ray Stannard Baker!. The rise of muckraking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries corresponded with the advent of Progressivism yet, while temporally correlated, the two are not intrinsically linked!. President Theodore Roosevelt is attributed as the source of the term 'muckraker'!. During a speech in 1906, he likened the muckrakers to the Man with the Muckrake, a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678)!. While Roosevelt apparently disliked what he saw as a certain lack of optimism of muckraking's practitioners: …the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor!. His speech strongly advocated against the muckrakers: There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them!. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life!. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful!." further readings:http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/History_of_!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com C!. style of journalism popularizedby lincoln steffers and ida tarbell!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |