To muckrake or not to muckrake? 1. recently you interviewed a close friend of a well respected u. s. senator. you were told that the senator has a sérious gambling problem, is an alcoholic, and often cheats on his wife. do you publish this story? why or why no?

No not as it stands. It is so one sided that it is not worth reading. This man is a senator. Out of 330,000,000 people only 99 others can make that claim. What I want to know is, how well does he do his job. He has tremendous power and I don't want to waste my time reading about his affairs. If his wife  can tolerate him, so can I.

That was the Problem with Bill Clinton. Thousands of line inches were written about Monica, almost nothing about the fact that he was the last president to consider balancing the budget. That's what we need every President to do -- his job. And we need to be interested when such a story appears.

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years

8 years 100% positive

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