Muckraking

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Ultimately, over time, muckraking has become a harder thing to be honored for due to the lack of human’s attention span on current events. Before news and current events were this easily accessible people would focus on one topic at a time because there was nothing else. There are too many stories from a day-to-day basis for people to recognize a problem and actually do something about it. The stories that used to make people want to make change are now just documentaries that people recommend on rainy days. This makes it hard for muckrakers to really get a grasp on peoples attention and be recognized as a savior.

Another aspect of society that interferes with muckraking is social media. Social media bombards people with so many different viewpoints and problems that our minds are now comfortable with the everyday bad news. If the human race adapts to these everyday tragedies, we will eventually become immune to bad news and won’t try to change anything. Once humans do this, muckraking will be pointless because the journalists will realize that these stories are pointless. This is why muckraking has become difficult to be recognized as a true “honor.”

To wrap things up, it is apparent that muckraking is both a good and bad thing in society, depending on the content and time period you are referencing. Muckraking can be beneficial if the intent is a good one and it’s purpose used to make things better, but when used for wrongful gain by people with bad intentions it can be harmful to those involved. It could make or break society at this point, only time will tell.