In 1901, legendary muckraking journalist Frank Norris wrote The Octopus, about Standard Oil's chokehold on the California economy.
Today, we need new muckrakers to make sense of a whole new wave of corporate scandals, most of which involve big business getting into bed with big government. A case in point is Jeff Immelt's relationship with Barack Obama, and, more to the point, General Electric's relationship with the US government.
