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Corruption, beware; Rumors of the death of investigative journalism are greatly exaggerated.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20031118
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Byline: Steve Weinberg

American history courses across the nation usually devote at least a few minutes to a group of journalists who wrote about 100 years ago and collectively became known as "muckrakers." The best-known of the bunch, then and now, are Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, David Graham Phillips, and Upton Sinclair.

Although Theodore Roosevelt had been friendly with many of these journalists, by 1906 the president believed many of them had become a menace to society. His term "muckrakers" was not meant as a compliment.

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