Hi my name is Kyle F. I am talking about muckraker for my blog in class in 20th century. A muckraker is a person who investigates and reports. Muckrakers were normally around in the early stages of America during 1890’s and 1930’s. The writer focused on a lot of the main points in the Progressive Era time. most of the issues were meat packaging, patent medicines, and child labor. The word muckrakers came from President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 when he was giving a speech. It can mostly mean to a person somebody that “could look no way but downward”.
There were many muckrakers in the US time some people got a lot of there stuff published. Nellie Bly is an original muckraker. She published “Ten Days in a Madhouse”. Muckrakers were pretty much just like a news reporter because they report true facts. They are not like the people that try to make people live’s miserable by making up lies. Muckrakers over all were good things back in the day.