The Muckrakers wanted to raise American society's consciousness to the injustices placed on the working classes. The apparent wide spread prosperity of the era was limited to a select few and came at the cost of many. These journalists real

Through media correspondence, the Muckrakers raised public and government awareness to corrupt practices in government and business. The Muckrackers' role in the evolution of media set a standard of raising awareness to controversial issues undermining American morality.

ized that media reached a point where news is read by the working class American. In addition, what they say will not be heard by an elite few, but by everyone. Printing technology of the time enabled one to add illustrations to text and newspapers and magazines became affordable for lower class citizens. These three felt that Americans needed to know about the corruption and the suffering that went on daily in all major cities in the United States. Until the Muckrakers, Americans did not have a reliable source for information regarding politics or corporate America on a nationwide scale. Although these writers investigated corruption in many forms, all they could do is inform the nation but in some instances this was the best

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