Equally significant to progressive-era reform were the crusading journalists, known as muckrakers. Journalistic critics, including Ida M. Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens, were labeled "The Muckrakers". It became the base for leftwing intellectuals, otherwise known as Muckrakers. Muckrakers were journalists who encouraged readers to demand more regulation of business. One of the original "Muckrakers" was Ida M. Tarbell, an American author and journalist. Other muckrakers assailed the Senate, railroad companies, insurance companies, and fraud in patent medicine. His scholarly writings focused on muckrakers, abolition, and other reform movements. The muckrakers appeared at a moment when journalism was undergoing changes in style and practice. My Morning Jacket, The Muckrakers and Digby. As a corollary of the growing urban scene, aggressive newspaper reporters, named muckrakers, emerged. See History of American newspapers for Muckrakers in the daily press. The muckrakers played a highly visible role during the Progressive Era. The people who wrote them became labeled as "muckrakers". The Muckrakers continued playing and in 2004 were signed to Toucan Cove Entertainment/Label X. The Muckrakers were a rock band from Long Island, New York formed in 1997.