One of the main impacts that the efforts of muckrakers had on life in the United States today was that they made it more acceptable to use journalism as a tool to expose corruption in both government and business, since this was their original intent.
The conflict between Protestants and Catholics was an open one with both sides seeking the support of the public.
The printing press became an important weapon in the Reformation.
Both the Protestant and Catholic propagandists made use of the printing press as a means of influencing the public.
Protestants used the printing press to proliferate revolutionary theological material at a popular level, while the Catholic Church produced large quantities of anti-Reformation texts.
