“Now, how would you like to be a reporter, if you have got nothing better to do?”

This is the story of a reporter–a muckraker–answering a boy who wants to know if Santa Clause actually exists. And somehow, it’s an answer that manages to mention Theodore Roosevelt. 

This is Jacob Riis’ Is There a Santa Clause?

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