us president theodora roosevelt, speaking before the senate on april 14, 1906, called, one might evens muckrakers. according to opinion. president, these people are nothing they didn’t see any good around them, they just delved into various types of dirt of american society, that is, in the problems of vices, carefully and scrupulously recording everything and putting it on display for general discussion, and these people were all mostly well -educated, had well-paid, interesting jobs, but despite all this, they voluntarily buried themselves up to their ears in this mud. youtube channel history bins remembers the muckrakers, an important cultural and political milestone of american progressivism. at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century a group of prominent investigative journalists, joseph lincoln and stephens, upton sinclair, jacob rees, sinclairs and others, set out to expose corruption and abuse.