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Who first applied the term muckraker to journalism?
John Bunyan
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
President Theodore Roosevelt
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President Theodore Roosevelt.
He used the term in a 1906 speech, borrowing the image of the "man with the muck-rake" from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to describe investigative journalists.
He used the term in a 1906 speech, borrowing the image of the "man with the muck-rake" from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to describe investigative journalists.
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