Muckrakers were a new breed of journalist, ones who tired to install social change as the new goal of the media. they would publish exposes on atrocities committed at factories and in mines, chronicling the horrors of labor with photographs. They tried to make a difference for the working man, working to inform both the people, and then in turn the policy makers, about the troubles in the workforce so that an answer might be prepared. They also tried to fix general living conditions. One of the things that muckrakers especially focused on was the working conditions of children, which were, at the time, horendous. They cared about their fellow humans, and used the power of the media to enact change.
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