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Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:06:47 David Rosenthal A amazing pioneering woman journalist named Ida Minerva Tarbell, who's a writer for McClure's magazine, National Magazine, which is going to be important, National Magazine, uh, starts working on a new project that she pitches to the…
- ▶ 1:07:14 Ben Gilbert Now, one might say Ida has an axe to grind from, uh, her own past.
- ▶ 1:08:10 David Rosenthal Um, she becomes, uh, I, Tarbell, uh, and her colleagues at McClure at McClure's become known as the muckrakers.
- ▶ 1:08:46 David Rosenthal Yeah, so where, where is, uh, where is Ida from?
- ▶ 1:10:27 David Rosenthal Ida's brother.
- ▶ 1:11:19 David Rosenthal So Chernow writes, uh, from the perspective of nearly a century later, Ida Tarbell's series remains the most impressive thing ever written about Standard Oil.
- ▶ 1:15:09 David Rosenthal So, uh, in the history, Tarbell uncovers and documents exactly how the Cleveland massacre went down.
- ▶ 1:15:40 Ben Gilbert Like, this whole, all this stuff we said in part one, like, we wouldn't know without Ida, because the only other real account is Rockefeller talking to his official biographer, William O.
- ▶ 1:16:23 Ben Gilbert So, like, it really is Ida Tarbell who discovered all the stuff that we've talked about.
- ▶ 1:17:32 David Rosenthal They don't, they don't respond, they don't mount a counter campaign, even though there's a lot of stuff in, in the, in Tarbell's history that's wrong, that they very legitimately could have taken issue with.
- ▶ 1:18:44 David Rosenthal Um, so the other, so that's how they respond to the, the tar bell piece.
- ▶ 1:23:56 Ben Gilbert You even have executives at Standard Oil talking and giving first party accounts to Ida Tarbell.
- ▶ 1:24:02 David Rosenthal To Tarbell, yes.
- ▶ 1:24:06 David Rosenthal So the, the primary guy who, who talked to Tarbell and did this was a executive, and I think a board member, um, named Henry Rogers.
- ▶ 1:24:15 David Rosenthal I think he gave this, I think he sent this to Tarbell, uh,
- ▶ 1:27:16 David Rosenthal Uh, two, uh, Tarbell, uh, and the muckrakers in public opinion, uh,
- ▶ 1:43:30 David Rosenthal Uh, Roosevelt and, like, Tarbell and the muckraking crew and all the, you know, progressives, they really, like, they wanted all the Standard Oil people to go to jail.
- ▶ 2:20:58 David Rosenthal When the Tarbell articles came out and Rockefeller and everybody was like, oh, we don't need to say anything here.
Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30:23 David Rosenthal So as Ida Tarbell, who we're going to talk much about next time, uh, wrote in, in, uh, her investigative reporting on standard oil, this is what she claimed that the, the standard pitch was to, uh, to other folks about joining the scheme,…