Upton Sinclair: A Lie Can Run All the Way Round the Earth ...

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), U.S. muckraking* journalist

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KISWAHILI

“Mark Twain, ninaamini, ndiye mwandishi wa msemo kwamba ‘uwongo unaweza kukimbia kuzunguka duniani ilhali ukweli ni [bado] kufikia viatu vyake.’”

- Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), mwandishi wa habari za uchunguzi*, mwandishi wa riwaya za kufichua, na mgombeaji wa ugavana wa Jimbo la California mnamo 1933-1934.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

“Mark Twain, I believe, is author of the saying that ‘a lie can run all the way round the earth while the truth is [still] putting on its shoes.’”

- Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), muckraking* journalist, social reform novelist, and one-time gubernatorial candidate for the State of California in 1933-1934.

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* A muckraker is a journalistic term associated with the Progressive Era (1890s to 1920s) of the United States that employed detailed, investigative reporting to expose abuses and unchecked exploitation occurring in new industries, politics, business, and the court systems, such as:

• unsafe and unsanitary working environments of the meatpacking industry;

• corrupt political municipalities;

• questionable sentencing and subsequent leasing of convicts for unpaid labor; and

• extrajudicial, lethal violence levied upon Black American citizens (lynching) as a means to obtain their land, businesses, and property at reduced prices.

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  Chanzo (source): Sinclair, Upton. The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism. Pasadena, California: published by the author, 1920, page 72. Accessed via the HathiTrust repository at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015186540&seq=3 on December 22, 2024.