The Brass Check

Upton Sinclair's scathing exposé of early 1900s mainstream media and journalism Written by acclaimed muck-racking journalist and author of The Jungle— which documented the inhumane conditions in meatpacking plants in the early twentieth century— The Brass Check is Upton Sinclair's piercing critique of mainstream media's biases in its reporting; how it was not interested in combatting misinformation, but was more heavily influenced by its wealthy owners and their own sociopolitical interests