Original sentence: ' During a speech in 1906 he likened the muckrakers to the Man with the Muckrake, a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678).In the early 1900s, muckrakers opened shed light on abuses within the public and private sectors.Popular magazines such as Cosmopolitan, The Independent, and McClure's funded and helped to expose scandals including fraudulent claims by makers of patent medicines, conditions in slums, hypocritical and lascivious behavior by politicians, prison conditions, and unsanitary conditions in food processing plants
Edited sentence: ' During a speech in 1906 he likened the muckrakers to the Man with the Muckrake character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678).In the early 1900s, muckrakers served as a social conscience and opened many people's eyes to the abuses within the public and private sectors.Popular magazines such as Cosmopolitan, The Independent, and McClure's funded and helped to expose scandals including fr.audulent claims by makers of patent medicines, horrific conditions in slums, hypocritical and lascivious behavior by politicians, prison conditions, and unsanitary conditions in food processing plants