apr 20, 1906 - TR popularizes term "Muckrakers" (Apr 1906)

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Editors financed research, encouraged quarrelsome writing by writers. had lots of circulation, most scandalous exposures published as best-selling books; Lots of targets for muckrakers - like insurance companies, tariff lobbies, beef trust, “money trust”, RR barons, amassing of Amer fortunes; mostly aimed at social evils; signified much of progressive reform mvmt, Didn’t call for drastic political change, wanted to right social wrongs, counted on publicity, aroused public conscience, Wanted to cleanse capitalism, emphasize democracy

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