Most of the early American newspapers were owned and written by men who were highly partisan. When you're in D.C. I recommend that you visit the James Madison Library (across the street from the main, Jefferson Building) and go to the reading room with microfilms of all the surviving copies of colonial newspapers.
You'll be surprised to see that they much more resembled the supermarket tabloids of today, than either the Washington Post or the Washington Times.
John / Billybob
So - you are saying they printed partisan, but unvarnished TRUTH!!!!!
(much like the National Enquirer?)
You'll be surprised to see that they much more resembled the supermarket tabloids of today, than either the Washington Post or the Washington Times.
As a collector, I own a number of original copies of colonial newspapers and your comments are spot on.