Buzz Aldrin (who went to the Moon with Armstrong), Peter Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepherd, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John W. Young, Charles Duke, Eugene Cernanâ¦ and Harrison Schmitt - just twelve people have been to the Moon.
Muckrakers were investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business or government, or examined serious societal issues. Several of the most well-known muckrakers worked for McClureâs Magazine, where they wrote exposÃ©s on large companies, meat slaughtering houses, and city governments. These prominent and influential reporters included Ida M. Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and Ray Stannard Baker.
These men and women came to be known as âmuckrakers.â Although the term started out as a pejorative, it has since become a heroic moniker for anyone who digs and digs to find the truth. Here are ten of the best muckrakers in the history of the American press.