Money is always behind everything in the world, even the newspapers. The book mentions that the heavy advertisers were often the same people that the muckrakers were going after. This is very similar to this situation we are in today. It is very annoying how often the phrase history repeats itself can come to mind. The newspaper in the early 20th century paid the consequences for writing such compelling stories by losing many of their biggest advertisers. We need to see this now, one newspaper/ news station that will stand out from the rest because of their muckraking reporters. They need to trust that the people want to hear the truth and would be compelled to read the rest of the story once the bait has been hooked.
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Photo 1: ({{Information |Description=Amy Goodman, award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now! addresses the 2010 Chicago Green Festival. |Source=[http://www.flickr.com/photos/18195735@N05/4656549814/ Amy Goodman] * Uploaded by Edward |Date=2)
Photo 2: ({{Information |Description=w:Lincoln Steffens, American muckraking journalist |Source=http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf696nb55m/?layout=metadata&brand=calisphere |Date=May 1894 |Author=Rockwood, New York, New York |Permission={{PD-US}} }} [[Cat)
Photo 3: Source:http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonview.asp?search=site&catref=lfon596&NC_Category=&ANDkeyword=corporation+newspaper+cartoon&ORkeyword=&TITLEkeyword=&NEGATIVEkeyword=Author: Foyle, Lindsay
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