Overall, Nellie Bly’s mission to reform New York’s treatment of the mentally ill through journalism was a success. Ten Days in a Mad-House is a shining example of “muckraking” reportage, which was a staple of news in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Later, this type of reporting lost some of its esteem; muckraking reports were increasingly seen as intrusive and biased. Do you think Nellie’s brand of investigative reporting would play out differently today? How so? Make a claim in answer to these questions the argue how Nellie Bly’s work would be received in modern society.