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There is bias in the elite media! How often do you hear that on cable talk shows? Yes Cheap Jerseys China Wholesale ,George Bush gets criticized by the press. Clinton before him took it on the chin and every president before him felt the sting of slings and an and Roosevelt got it, Lincoln certainly did and so did Adams and Jefferson. It started before all the aforementioned presidents because the very first"victim" of presidential 聯media?bias was none other than George Washington.

And what provoked the media bias that plagued the man who has been revered thoughout our nation's history?

First a little background...

The tap root of American journalism was sunk into partisan soil when Patriot and Tory hurled invectives across a widening line of intolerance over the Stamp Act in 1765. The twenty three papers in the colonies then were four- page weeklies of local advertising, local here-say and large sections of European news, cut verbatim from the London press. News as we know it was non-existent.

When the Stamp Act created the furor in the colonies, letters of opinion were published by printers who would run pieces submitted by someone - anyone - who had something to say. As the patriot presses from Boston to Charleston rattled out words of defiance to the British crown, the idea of being a British subject was being replaced by a new self-image as writers in journals began to refer to themselves and everyone else as Americans. Led by the printers and their contributing writers Cheap Kids Jerseys , this new mind-set was being developed as opposition to the crown grew.

After the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766, the power of the press was realized. Colonials, intrigued with the idea of independence from Britain, saw it as a weapon and in Massachusetts, the Boston Gazette and Country Journal were in the forefront of agitation. Two fiery coals in the 聰hotbed of sedition,聰Benjamin Edes and John Gill Cheap Youth Jerseys , opened their doors to a deliberately obscure group called the Caucus Club. Consisting of men like Sam Adams, his cousin John Adams, James Otis and John Hancock, club members would meet at the Gazette where they 聯cooked up paragraphs,?and ?worked the political engine.?frustrating the Tories who, so embittered Cheap Womens Jerseys , circulated a letter to British troops quartered in Boston urging ?those Trumpeters of Sedition, the printers Edes and Gill,?and their writers for their paper, should be put to the sword.?br >
And one of them , James Otis, perhaps the least radical of the patriots Cheap Mens Jerseys , suffered such an assault after writing an article for the Boston Gazette in which he took the Governor and some of his commissioners to task for accusing he and Sam Adams of treason. Shortly after the piece appeared, Otis entered a coffee house for some morning refreshment and came upon one of the commissioners and several British army, naval and revenue officers. Robinson, the commissioner, it was reported, led the charge at Otis with his cane Cheap Jerseys Wholesale , the sword-wielding military right behind amid shouts of 聯God damn him! Kill him! Kill him!?After Otis took a beating and a sword slash to the head, the combatants were separated by others present fearing Otis would be killed. Otis sued and won damages of three thousand shillings but gentleman that he was, he refused the money on the basis that Robinson had atoned for his action

Otis?gentlemanly gesture and Robinson聮s mea culpa were rare for the dividing line was stretching towards Lexington and Concord. Rancor in the press came from both sides, intolerance under- lining every word. 聯Tories are,?one man wrote to the Boston Gazette ?.the most despicable beings, that ever appeared in human shape.?A Tory writing to the New York Gazette penned a poem in which he wrote of the Patriot values Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping , ?Cheating and lying are puny things, Rapine and plundering venial sins.?br >
And the 聯venial sin?of plundering did came to pass right after Lexington and Concord. When James Rivington a Tory publisher wrote of the battles at Lexington and Concord in his newspaper "Rivington New York Gazeteer", partisanship showed up at the newspaper office in the guise of Isaac Sears and a cavalry contingent. The press was plundered and the type was carried off to melt down for patriot bullets. Partisanship had taken a firm hold in the colonial America. It would never let go. Looking back thirty two years after Yorktown, John Adams, the nation聮s second president, wrote:

聯What do you mean by the Revolution? The War? That was no part of the Revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The Revolution was in the minds of the people Cheap Jerseys From China , and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.?br >
The few had influenced the many. And the newspapers were there.

Stay with this now and we聮ll soon get to George Washington.

After the War for Independence, the tap root of the partisan press had sunk deep into American soil and the tree growing from it was struggling to find the sun. Most of the papers that had beat the drum of revolution, or tried to muffle it with opposition, did not survive. Perhaps their reason for being no longer existed but a few survived the turn of the century passing on the legacy of partisanship to a new form of newspaper Cheap Jerseys China , the party organ, and a new form of partisanship, that of the political party.

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