The News Has Always Been Partisan

Just so you know, early newspapers in the U.S. were just as politically partisan as our news outlets are today, if not moreso.  Same with their political cartoons.   Such as those who resented Andrew Jackson's "tyrannical" effort to eliminate the Bank of the United States in 1834.  The U.S. Bank in those years was the cousin of today's Federal Reserve, a mis-named piggy-bank for politician's who could borrow money from private lenders as long as they paid interest on the debt.  The interest, of course, was owed by taxpayers.  Jackson didn't like that set-up.  He aimed to abolish it.  His political opponents, through their news outlets, took aim and fired, suggesting he was worse than the King of England, against whom Jackson himself had fought:

 

... much as today's NYTimes, in a crude and hypocritical slam at homosexuals, takes aim at Donald Trump and his alleged bromance with Vladimir Putin.  It's sickening, even by today's standards, but nonetheless typical of political news-speak over the centuries:

Pick your news carefully, pilgrim, 'cause there are many out for your scalp.

Many of those old newspapers, newsletters and serial pamphlets died out for lack of circulation and are lost to history.  But those that have been archived are a window to the past.  Politics were as lively in those days as they are today.  They knew the best way to sway opinion was by circulating the news.  Partisan news, at that.  Today it's called propaganda.  Or ideology.  Some things never change.  That's why I support competition in a free market.  There's no better way to judge the sentiment of a people than by one's paying audience.

If you are interested in old newspapers and have time to explore, I suggest you start here, at Readex.  Why Readex?  No particular reason, except I did some snooping and came across it.  I wasn't looking for an aggregation site.