Modern Muckrakers

Modern Day Muckrakers

           The term muckraker was used during the Progressive Era in order to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They were able to do this  by writing stories on the many  different issues of the Progressive Era and putting them in local newspapers for everyone to see. In todays modern times you can still see people who voice their opinions and concerns about society. 
           An example of a modern day muckraker is Jason Horowitz with The New York Times. He is the Rome bureau chief of The Times, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece and other parts of Southern Europe. He previously covered the 2016 presidential campaign, the Obama administration and Congress, with an emphasis on political profiles and features. 
           Jason Horowitz covered a story in The New York Times about police brutality. He wrote about the protest over Catalonian independence. Once the protests got more and more serious the police started to get involved. There was a certain attempt to stage an independence referendum. This just resulted in complete chaos, with hundreds injured in clashes with police. "National police officers in riot gear, sent by the central government in Madrid from other parts of Spain, used rubber bullets and truncheons in some places as they fanned out across Catalonia, the restive northeastern region, to shut down polling stations and seize ballot boxes." The reason Horowitz did a story on this brutality is because it's gotten out of hand, and if he speaks out then more people will with him. He is advertising the event, so that things can be done about it.






You can find videos covering this subject through the links below:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/world/europe/catalonia-independence-police.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FPolice%20Brutality%20and%20Misconduct&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

https://www.nytimes.com/by/jason-horowitz

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