MY chosen speech is “The Man with the Mud-Rake” given by President Theodore Roosevelt. Its primary purpose appears to be an attempt to reign in sensationalistic and offensive investigative press reporters who were damaging his congressional allies (Rose, 2004, p. 469).

In his speech he makes illusions to the muckraker In the American classic, Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyun. The muckraker in the story, was so focused on the filth he was slinging that he refused to see the Celestial Crown which he was offered. Roosevelt goes on to talk about the damage done by those who would twist the truth in their relentless attack on a perceived enemy (whether guilty or innocent). Such attacks are a form of sensationalistic malicious gossip which