Critical book review of the Jensen work, Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century - Essay Example

longest running research project, which annually explores news media censorship.” (Jensen, About the Author) His forty five years of extensive experience in the field of media has provided him with nationwide fame. Since the commencement of his career he worked as, “daily newspaper reporter, weekly newspaper publisher, public relations practitioner, advertising executive, and educator.” (Jensen, About the Author) Apart from undertaking such roles he also did hold important position in several advertising agencies of international repute and received several awards for his excellent performance as copywriter, supervisor of accounts of those firms and vice president.

After receiving such overview about the career of Dr. Carl Jensen his becomes easy for us to understand his actual motivation behind writing and editing this book, containing research based stories from some of the most eminent U.S. journalists and writers, whom he considers of having such power of presentation and reflection that though their analysis of the socio-politico-economic condition of the nation, have changed the course of life of the general citizens. Being into the media and from his personal experiences of his life he has developed an insight that has helped him to see the affairs around him from an analytical perspective.

At the same time, his extensive experience in the field of media has helped him to understand that through the power of creativity and making people conscious about their rights over their nation these processes of political, economic and social corruption can be stopped. He strongly believes that the writers, whom have been identified as “Muckrakers” by president Roosevelt, were actually eminent people of that era who, empowered by “Their words led to a nation-wide pubic revolt against social evils and a decade of reforms in anti-trust legislation, the electoral process, banking regulations and a host of other social programs.

” (Jensen, 18) Such