Muckraker

Author : W. Sydney Robinson
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781849543880

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Muckraker by W. Sydney Robinson Pdf

A major work by a brilliant young biographer, Muckraker details the tenacity and verve of one of Victorian Britain's most compelling characters. Credited with pioneering investigative reporting, W. T. Stead made a career of 'muckraking': revealing horrific practices in the hope of shocking authorities into reform. As the editor of the Northern Echo, he won the admiration of the Liberal statesman William Gladstone for his fierce denunciation of the Conservative government; at the helm of London's most ininfuential evening paper, the Pall Mall Gazette, he launched the career-defining Maiden Tribute campaign. To expose the scandal of child prostitution, Stead abducted thirteen-year-old Eliza Armstrong (thought by many to be the inspiration behind Eliza Doolittle, from friend George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion), thrusting him into a life of notoriety. Labelled a madman in later life for dabbling in the occult, W. T. Stead conducted his life with an invincible zeal right up until his tragic demise aboard the Titanic. Revealing a man full of curious eccentricities, W. Sydney Robinson charts the remarkable rise and fall of a true Fleet Street legend in this enthralling biography.

Author : Ann Bausum
Publisher : National Geographic Kids
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015073865746

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Muckrakers by Ann Bausum Pdf

Tells how investigative reporting began with the muckrakers in the early 20th century.

Author : Louis Filler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0804722366

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The Muckrakers by Louis Filler Pdf

This edition of Louis Filler's classic account carries the muckraking tradition through World War II, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, Korea, Vietnam, Ralph Nader, and Watergate.

Author : James O’Keefe
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1637580908

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American Muckraker by James O’Keefe Pdf

This seminal work of nonfiction recounts the new journalistic mass movement of today. Compiled from over a decade of investigative reporting coupled with a vast reference of philosophical research, American Muckraker is the definitive guide of truth-telling in the video age. ON POWER They do have tremendous power. But in part it is because we give it to them. We are nothing, but we are not alone. Awe cannot live in fear. The moment you stop caring about what the media establishment thinks of you, is the moment you become truly free. ON INSIDERS The USPS whistleblower, a Marine Corp combat veteran said, “I would rather be back in Afghanistan, getting shot at by Afghans, honest to God,” than be interrogated by federal agent Russell Strasser—who coerced him by saying, “I am trying to twist you a little bit because your mind will kick in…. I am not scaring you, but I am scaring you.” ON PRIVACY The right to record is closely tied to the right to speak or even to take contemporaneous notes about what one sees and hears. As 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt quipped, “People committing malfeasance don’t have any right to privacy…. What are we saying—that Upton Sinclair shouldn’t have smuggled his pencil in?” ON MEANS & ENDS Whereas the novelist Ernest Hemingway said, “What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after,” Thomas B. Morgan of the 1960s New Journalism contends, “Morally defensible journalism is rarely what you feel good about afterward; it is only that which makes you feel better than you would otherwise.” ON LITIGATION “Polling does not decide the truth nor speak to evidence…. The New York Times have not met their burden to prove that Veritas is deceptive…claiming protections from an upstart competitor armed with a cell phone and a website. There is a substantial basis in law to proceed, to permit Project Veritas, to conduct discovery into The New York Times.” —Project Veritas v. New York Times Company; New York Supreme Court, March 18, 2021

Author : Robert C. Kochersberger
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870499343

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More Than a Muckraker by Robert C. Kochersberger Pdf

Rockefeller's Standard Oil and the fight for antitrust legislation, she was also a thorough biographer, a social commentator and speaker, and a women's rights advocate - of sorts - during a time when most women did not work (or write) outside the home.

Author : Aileen Gallagher
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1404201971

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The Muckrakers by Aileen Gallagher Pdf

Learn about the journalists who helped change America.

Author : James O’Keefe
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781637580912

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American Muckraker by James O’Keefe Pdf

ON POWER They do have tremendous power. But in part it is because we give it to them. We are nothing, but we are not alone. Awe cannot live in fear. The moment you stop caring about what the media establishment thinks of you, is the moment you become truly free. ON INSIDERS The USPS whistleblower, a Marine Corps combat veteran said, “I would rather be back in Afghanistan, getting shot at by Afghans, honest to God,” than be interrogated by federal agent Russell Strasser—who coerced him by saying, “I am trying to twist you a little bit because your mind will kick in…. I am not scaring you, but I am scaring you.” ON PRIVACY The right to record is closely tied to the right to speak or even to take contemporaneous notes about what one sees and hears. As 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt quipped, “People committing malfeasance don’t have any right to privacy…. What are we saying—that Upton Sinclair shouldn’t have smuggled his pencil in?” ON MEANS & ENDS Whereas the novelist Ernest Hemingway said, “What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after,” Thomas B. Morgan of the 1960s New Journalism contends, “Morally defensible journalism is rarely what you feel good about afterward; it is only that which makes you feel better than you would otherwise.” ON LITIGATION “Polling does not decide the truth nor speak to evidence…. The New York Times have not met their burden to prove that Veritas is deceptive…claiming protections from an upstart competitor armed with a cell phone and a website. There is a substantial basis in law to proceed, to permit Project Veritas, to conduct discovery into The New York Times.” —Project Veritas v. New York Times Company; New York Supreme Court, March 18, 2021

Author : Ellen F. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0312089449

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Muckraking by Ellen F. Fitzpatrick Pdf

Printed together for the first time since their original publication in 1903, Ray Stannard Baker’s piece on the coal strike, "The Right to Work"; Lincoln Steffens’ exposé of political corruption, "The Shame of Minneapolis"; and Ida Tarbell’s story of corporate villainy, "The Oil War of 1872"; along with an editorial from S. S. McClure and the narrative of Ellen Fitzpatrick, invite students to explore and understand "muckraking."

Author : Kathleen Brady
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822980162

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Ida Tarbell by Kathleen Brady Pdf

In this first definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, Kathleen Brady, who is on the staff of Time, has written a readable and widely acclaimed book about one of America's great journalists.Ida Tarbell's generation called her "a muckraker" (the term was Theodore Roosevelt's, and he didn't intend it as a compliment), but in our time she would have been known as "an investigative reporter," with the celebrity of Woodward and Bernstein. By any description, Ida Tarbell was one of the most powerful women of her time in the United States: admired, feared, hated. When her History of the Standard Oil Company was published, first in McClure's Magazine and then as a book (1904), it shook the Rockefeller interests, caused national outrage, and led the Supreme Court to fragment the giant monopoly.A journalist of extraordinary intelligence, accuracy, and courage, she was also the author of the influential and popular books on Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln, and her hundreds of articles dealt with public figures such as Louis Pateur and Emile Zola, and contemporary issues such as tariff policy and labor. During her long life, she knew Teddy Roosevelt, Jane Addams, Henry James, Samuel McClure, Lincoln Stephens, Herbert Hoover, and many other prominent Americans. She achieved more than almost any woman of her generation, but she was an antisuffragist, believing that the traditional roles of wife and mother were more important than public life. She ultimately defended the business interests she had once attacked.To this day, her opposition to women's rights disturbs some feminists. Kathleen Brady writes of her: "[She did not have] the flinty stuff of which the cutting edge of any revolution is made. . . . Yet she was called to achievement in a day when women were called only to exist. Her triumph was that she succeeded. Her tragedy ws that she was never to know it."

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of James O’Keefe's American Muckraker by Milkyway Media Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The printing press, the telegraph, and the internet have all changed the way we communicate. But the act of journalism has not changed much over the years. #2 The press was supported in part by political parties in the 1800s, but with the emergence of papers like the New York Times, which still promises to report without fear or favor, this open partisanship began to fade. #3 journalists were only as valuable and efficient as their ability to be selfdirected, selfmanaged, and even self rewarded. In the best of days, reporters were kept on a short leash by management. #4 Until about 1950, the public received its news almost exclusively through print, radio, and cinema newsreels. Television was a cool medium that required more interaction from the audience.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22T22:59:00Z
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781669357698

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Summary of James O’Keefe's American Muckraker by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The printing press, the telegraph, and the internet have all changed the way we communicate. But the act of journalism has not changed much over the years. #2 The press was supported in part by political parties in the 1800s, but with the emergence of papers like the New York Times, which still promises to report without fear or favor, this open partisanship began to fade. #3 journalists were only as valuable and efficient as their ability to be self-directed, self-managed, and even self- rewarded. In the best of days, reporters were kept on a short leash by management. #4 Until about 1950, the public received its news almost exclusively through print, radio, and cinema newsreels. Television was a cool medium that required more interaction from the audience.

Author : Garna L. Christian
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780826355454

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El Paso's Muckraker by Garna L. Christian Pdf

This long-overdue biography restores this overlooked writer to the forefront of western history and journalism.

Author : Anya Schiffrin
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595589736

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Global Muckraking by Anya Schiffrin Pdf

Crusading journalists from Sinclair Lewis to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have played a central role in American politics: checking abuses of power, revealing corporate misdeeds, and exposing government corruption. Muckraking journalism is part and parcel of American democracy. But how many people know about the role that muckraking has played around the world? This groundbreaking new book presents the most important examples of world-changing journalism, spanning one hundred years and every continent. Carefully curated by prominent international journalists working in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, Global Muckraking includes Ken Saro-Wiwa’s defense of the Ogoni people in the Niger Δ Horacio Verbitsky's uncovering of the gruesome disappearance of political detainees in Argentina; Gareth Jones’s coverage of the Ukraine famine of 1932–33; missionary newspapers’ coverage of Chinese foot binding in the nineteenth century; Dwarkanath Ganguli’s exposé of the British "coolie" trade in nineteenth-century Assam, India; and many others. Edited by the noted author and journalist Anya Schiffrin, Global Muckraking is a sweeping introduction to international journalism that has galvanized the world’s attention. In an era when human rights are in the spotlight and the fate of newspapers hangs in the balance, here is both a riveting read and a sweeping argument for why the world needs long-form investigative reporting.

Author : Carola Dunn
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429999977

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The Case of the Murdered Muckraker by Carola Dunn Pdf

In late 1923, the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, come to America for a honeymoon visit. In the midst of a pleasure trip, however, both work in a bit of business - Alec travels to Washington, D. C. to consult with the U.S. government, Daisy to New York to meet with her American magazine editor. While in New York, Daisy stays at the famed Chelsea Hotel, which is not only close to the Flatiron Building offices of Abroad magazine, where she'll be meeting with her editor, but home to many of New York's artists and writers. After her late morning meeting, Daisy agrees to accompany her editor, Mr. Thorwald, to lunch but as they are leaving the offices, they hear a gun shot and see a man plummeting down an elevator shaft. The man killed was one of her fellow residents at the Chelsea Hotel, Otis Carmody, who was a journalist with no end of enemies - personal and professional - who would delight in his death. Again in the midst of a murder investigation, Daisy's search for the killer takes her to all levels of society, and even a mad dash across the country itself, as she attempts to solve a puzzle that would baffle even Philo Vance himself.

Author : Jack Anderson,James Boyd
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0345260252

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Confessions of a Muckraker by Jack Anderson,James Boyd Pdf