In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was an epic fight of so-called muckrakers — journalists and novelists such as Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell, along ...

In the early 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt used the term “muckraker” as an insult to journalists whom he believed had gone too far in their pursuit of the truth. The term has been ...