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The pen is something mightier than words.The first investigative journalists were known as Muckrakers. Writers whose exposés of corruption in business and government aroused public opinion and helped spur Progressive-Era reforms. Theodore Roosevelt popularized the term in a 14 April 1906 speech, in which he compared them to the Man with the Muck-rake in Banyan's Pilgrim's Progress, who remained so intent on raking the filth at his feet that he failed to look up and behold the celestial crown. Likewise, Roosevelt argued, the muckrakers remained so focused on the evils in society they failed to reaffirm the vision of America's promise. The usage stuck, and henceforth the term was applied to all those engaged in. It may be a "cliché" in Zimbabwe as  the investigative enterprise might bring a cost-cost out comes .The journalist might be arrested or left exposed to dangers while the culprit is left scot free,therefore no beneficial result is left to the society.

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