“The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.”

“The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.”

“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.”

“Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.”

“No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of 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”

“Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?”

“A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.”

“One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.”

“Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.”

“John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.”