Yellow Journalism

• Sensationalized

• Make quick money

• Grab attention

• Elicit emotions

• Tell the truth?

– Nah, just make money

Investigative Journalism

• Expose social ills and corporate and political corruption

• Ignorance is NOT bliss

• Turned newspapers into the “watch dog” for the people

How are the similar and how are they different?

Jacob Riis

• a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.

• Considered the “Father of Photography”

• How the Other Half Lives

• Advocacy for urban renewal

Ida Tarbell

• an American teacher, author, and journalist.

• She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the Progressive era

• The History of the Standard Oil Company

• Public outrage

• Prosecute companies for violate Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Upton Sinclair• American author• Exposed conditions in the U.S.

meat packing industry• The Jungle• Caused a public uproar • Pure Food and Drug Act and the

Meat Inspection Act.• a muckraking exposé of American

journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States.

• The first code of ethics for journalists was created

Theodore Roosevelt and Muckrakers

• The term "muckraker" was taken from the fictional character in Pilgrim's Progress, a man who was assigned to rake muck endlessly, never lifting his eyes from his drudgery

• Believed that some of the writers were going too far

– Too focused on what was going wrong in the world

• Liked what they were doing, but carefully monitored what was going on