THE MUCKRAKER

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• THE MUCKRAKER
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• From Critic to Muckraker From Bystander to
  Witness
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• Friedrich Engels (1844) Ethnography of English
  working class lives to scare Germans about the
  real consequences of capitalism.
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• The Dreyfus Affair (1894-99) Zola, Séverine and
  Durkheim ? the male intellectual, the female
  witness and the sociologist
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• American style muckraking (circa 1900) Robert
  Park and Lincoln Steffens ? the need for a
  scientific (i.e. empirical) approach to
  journalism based on the emerging European
  sciences of sociology and psychology.
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• Steffens career as exemplary of the fate of
  muckrakers ? the move from the facts to the
  system Is everyone corrupt, even the poor? The
  yearning for revolution as the cure?
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• Muckrakings Death Knell (1920) Lippmann and the
  Realism/Objectivity Divide in Journalism
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• Muckrakers Heirs Investigative Journalism ?
  Turning the Wiretaps and the Tapes against the
  Tappers and Tapers.
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