10 Quotes by Harold Holzer about bias
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Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.
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One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.
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President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.
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A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.
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One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.
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Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth.
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A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspaper's circulation approached General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War with information that could help him. He was unwilling to get help from someone in petticoats.
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The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans
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One of the cost of holding a Federal office was geographic isolation in the nation's capital.
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