“His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.”
Harold Holzer“The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion“One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion“Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion“No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion“The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion“Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion“A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion“One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion“Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion“John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.”
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion