Ida Tarbell's Issues With The Standard Oil Industry

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Ida Tarbell was an investigative reporter who exposed evidence of corruption, bribery, and illegal price-setting by the Standard Oil Company. Her main issue with the Standard Oil Company was the founder John D. Rockefeller, for he was monopolizing the oil market in her hometown of Titusville, Pennsylvania. She publicized her anger and issues with the Standard Oil Company and also the South Improvement Company into the pages of the magazine the McClure. In researching about the companies, many of important papers were missing and many highly placed officials refused to speak with her. This did not stop her because she spent the next two years reading, collecting, and checking information. Finally, in 1902, the McClure published the first article
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