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The Press Investigates:
Newspapers exposed on national ill after another: poisoned streams, corrupt cults, tainted products and politics so dirty that they toppled a president. Not since the "muckrakers" of the early 20th century had the news media so eagerly takne up the mantle of public guardian. The celebrity achieved by some reporters and newspapers fueled a renewed interest in investigative journalism.
According to Doonesbury:
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" was so biting that many newspapers took the unusual step of moving it to the opinion pages or elsewhere. "Criticizing a political satirist for being unfair," Trudeau said, "is like criticizing a 260-pound nose guard for being too physical." |