Read the excerpt from future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis’s Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It, published in 1913, and answer the question.
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. And publicity has already played an important part in the struggle against the Money Trust. The Pujo Committee1 has, in the disclosure of the facts concerning financial concentration, made a most important contribution toward attainment of the New Freedom. . . . But there should be a further call upon publicity for service. That potent force must, in the impending struggle, be utilized in many ways as a continuous remedial measure.
1Pujo Committee: A congressional subcommittee convened in 1912–1913 to investigate the influence of the banking industry over the country’s finances.
During the Progressive Era, who were the people that sought to use publicity “as a remedy for social and industrial diseases” and reported on corruption in US politics and businesses?
(1 point)
Responses
muckrakers
yellow journalists
anti-imperialists
suffragists