Question

Muckraker Ida Tarbell’s work to expose Rockefeller’s unethical business practices in creating Standard Oil marked the beginning and served as a model for

tabloid sensationalism


yellow journalism


investigative journalism


propaganda

Answer 1

I am taking the same test and I believe the answer is investigative journalism

Answer 2

The correct answer is: "investigative journalism".

Ida Tarbell was one of the leading muckrakers in the Progressive Era (late 19th and early 20th century) . In 1904 she published her most famous book; The History of the Standard Oil Company.

The term muckracker was used to describe a generation of journalists who aimed the reformation of corrupt institutions and leaders during the Progressive Era. Nowadays this term has been actually substituted by the expression "investigative journalism".