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Investigative Reporting
I Cor. 4:5 "Therefore judge nothing before the
time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and
will make manifest the counsels of the hearts..."
Investigative reporting often places long-entrenched and
gross injustices before the spotlight of public scrutiny. At the Lord's return he
"brings to light the hidden things of darkness" - personal and public wrongs are
exposed.
Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes, is
credited as being the trend-setter. His work began with the purchase of Staats-Zeitung
in 1874 [German language paper] and the St. Louis Post and Dispatch papers in
1878.
The continuous exposes began arousing public consciousness.
1904
• History of the
Standard Oil Company by Ida M. Tarbell - exposed the corrupt practices used to form a
great industrial monopoly. |
| • Children in Bondage by Edwin Markham -
a major attack on child labor. |
| • The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln
Steffens - on corrupt city and state politics. |
1904-05
• Frenzied Finance by Thomas W. Lawson - a major
expose of stock-market abuses and insurance fraud. |
1905
•
The Greatest Trust in the World by Charles Edward Russell led the reform
writers. |
1906
• The Treason of
the Senate by David Graham Phillips - led to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment
to the Constitution, providing for popular senatorial elections. |
| • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and 1906
- Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams combined with the work of Harvey
W. Wiley and Senator Albert J. Beveridge - brought about passage of the Beef Inspection
Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. |
1907
• Uprising of the
Many by Charles Edward Russell -- reported methods being tried to extend democracy in
other countries. |
1907
• The Turn of the
Balance by Brand Whitlock - a novel opposing capital punishment. |
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