Assess the role of the muckrakers in progressive reform. What valuable

Assess the role of the muckrakers in progressive reform. What valuable service did they provide? Why were they despised by people like Theodore Roosevelt? What do you think about their kind of journalism? Why?

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Muckrakers performed a public service by investigating corrupt practices, exposing them to public view, and arousing the public to act or demand action. Roosevelt and others disliked the muckrakers because they offered no solutions to the problems they exposed, and they eventually tended toward exaggeration and making unsubstantiated charges.