Newspaper History & Details
The hugely partisan era of newspapers continued well into the 1820s when campaigns waged by candidates John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson played out on the pages of newspapers. Vicious attacks, such as in the controversial presidential elections of 1824 and 1828, had been carried in newspapers which had been basically controlled by candidates. The 57th annual Planet Newspaper Congress, held in Istanbul in June 2004, reported circulation increases in...
