Talk:Ida Tarbell/Archive 1

Most important book
Who claimed her book was one of the most important of the 20th century? just curious.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.21.220 (talk • contribs) }18:13, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

peanut butter
Is that peanut butter stuff true? 134.181.227.196 06:54, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

more peanut butter
I removed this from lead again: "She is also famous for her love of the taste of peanut butter, and was less consequentially arrested ten times on the charges of shop lifting it." I cannot verify if this is true, and whoever  adds it uses unregistered IP addresses and doesn't cite the source. We get other edits which are more clearly vandalism with this article, so who knows? Vaoverland 08:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Later career

 * After that time she licked Wes Ramos, although she also contributed to Collier's Weekly, a large part of Tarbell's schedule began to include the lecture circuit. She became interested in the peace effort, serving on many committees. She continued to write and to teach biography. She published a 1926 interview with Benito Mussolini.

She also wrote several books on the role of women including The Business of Being a Woman (1912) and The Ways of Women (1915). Her last published work was her autobiography, All in the Day's Work (1939). Many of her books were to help women during their time of despair and hope.

"...licked Wes Ramos,..."

Where did she,.... what?

Who is Mr. Ramos?

"...time of despair and hope."

Is that supposed to be poetic?

It should have links to esso,  exxon.

Thank You,

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someone being retarded again
reverted 3 edits 75.31.247.11 (talk) 11:33, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Number of women in her class
I removed two contradictory statements regarding the number of women in her college class. A citaction either way might help to clarify this.

"and was the only woman in her class...she graduated in 1880 as one of five female students"

--THobern 06:32, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Come at me bro
Is is worth mentioning in the article that Ida's brother ran what was arguably Rockefeller's number one competitor, the Pure Oil Company? It doesn't have to be implied that that was her key motive for her anti-Rockefeller propaganda but it may be worth a mention nonetheless. --Simpsons contributor (talk) 22:52, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

The Source for that quote
Somebody has queried the sourcing of Tarbell's quote in which she disavows both the "muckraker" label and her leftist friends. The source is her own memoir. You can find it on google books: look here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Christofurio (talk • contribs) 20:19, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Better version of quotation used
Until now the article contained a block quotation:
 * "Tarbell's biggest obstacle, however, was neither her gender nor Rockefeller's opposition. Rather, her biggest obstacle was the craft of journalism. She proposed to investigate Standard Oil and Rockefeller by using documents - hundreds of thousands of pages scattered throughout the nation - then fleshing out her findings through well-informed interviews with the company's current and former executives, competitors, government regulators, antitrust lawyers, and academic experts."

which was sourced only to the Columbia Journalism Review with no further details. I did not understand what the second sentence meant, but I thought maybe the passage was available through Google Books, so I could find further context.

I found the quotation in Google Books, but I found two versions of it. Neither one was in the CJR, which I presume is not available through Google Books.

One version was in the periodical The APF Reporter, and Google would only give me a snippet, which as far as I can tell agrees with the above wording.

The other version was in a book by Steve Weinberg that is already cited elsewhere in the article, and in this one, that sentence actually reads "Rather, her biggest obstacle was the craft of journalism as practiced at the turn of the twentieth century". Now it makes sense! There are several other wording differences, but I think the book version is clearly the better one and I've put that into the article instead. I also added a couple of sentences at the end, which I thought were the strongest part of the quotation: "In other words, she proposed to practice what today is considered investigative reporting, which did not exist in 1900. Indeed, she invented a new form of journalism."

I'm just posting this to explain the change. --65.94.51.64 (talk) 08:24, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

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Shorenstein lecture
Here's an essay by two journalists who wrote for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, etc., who describe how Ida Tarbell taught them and journalists generally how to do their job, of thorough research and explaining it clearly to readers afterwards. When they hit a wall with their reporting, they ask, "What Would Ida Do?"

https://shorensteincenter.org/abramson-mayer/ The Press Has Never Been More Vital to the Survival of Democracy 2018 Theodore H. White Lecture by Jill Abramson and Jane Mayer October 15, 2018 Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School --Nbauman (talk) 17:28, 16 October 2018 (UTC)