Muckrakers

Muckrakers are people provide factual information about corruption. Unlike other journalist who cover an array of stories including the positive and negative, muckrakers cover just the negative and glamorize those topics.

                The muckraker name was popularized by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, when he compared them to the Man with the Muck-rake in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, who was so focused on raking the filth at his feet that he failed to look up and accept the celestial crown.  Roosevelt felt that the muckrakers of his time were so focused on bring out the bad of the nation that they did not provide information to help promote or support the nation.  However, newspapers and magazines written by muckrakers did provide the hidden information that many papers and magazines did not present to the people. In current times, muckraker papers would be called tabloids.