Category: Newspaper People Clue: In 1987, her assignment for the New York World was an expose of the insane asylum on blackwell's island.
Answer: Nellie Bly
There isn't much that I remember from my two years spent as a Journalism major, but I do remember that Bly pretended to be insane to expose the horrible conditions of a New York insane asylum. She baited the police by carrying on like a raving nutjob in public, purposely got locked herself away in there, and then reported on the atrocities she saw. I think the most interesting part of her story is how she actually practiced acting insane, making weird faces in the mirror and scripting her incoherent babbling. That's so awesome. She just helps reinforce the (very true) notion that crazy is cool. Afterall, better deranged than boring.
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