Political parties rise. The parties in Jacksonian America Parties and Press in Jacksonian America. Editors emerge as party leaders. Newspapers compete with each other in political debate. Serious, sustained debate.
News is political advocacy.
Argument, counter argument common. Neutrality disdained . It pretends to be all things to all men . Now we would wish to be civil to the editor, but we can never consent to an exchange with any such paper, for we verily think they should all, one and all, be thrown out of the pale of the press. If we are asked why, we answer, that the Editor must be doing violence to his own opinions or else he had none to abuse .