Read the quotation by Theodore Roosevelt.. “There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed . . . The men with the muck rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society.” According to this quotation, which of the following best describes Roosevelt's view on journalism?
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Over a century ago Washington laid the corner stone of the Capitol in what was then little more than a tract of wooded wilderness here beside the Potomac. We now find it necessary to provide by great additional buildings for the business of the government.
ANSWER:
Theodore Roosevelt states the journalism is like a muckrake in the society
EXPLANATION:
Muckrake tool is used to scrape up the dirt on the floor, Muckraker means the person who exposes the corruption and scandals. The former U.S President here expresses his views on the journalism that it should be like muckrake in the society and scrape up the dirtiness in the society.
Thus He tells the importance of the Journalism to the well being of the society and also he describes the duty of a journalist is indispensable to the improvement of the society.