On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:46:31PM -0600, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: > An important part of Lincoln's propaganda machine was simply to imprison > anyone who criticized him. He imprisoned any newspaper editor who had > the gall to criticize him. Other newspapers he put out of business by > instructing the Post Office not to deliver their publications (mail was > the most common means of receiving the paper at the time). He had a
And has been rewarded thusly: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/1ds-1/lincoln-memorial-statue-2.html (Off-topic: That's from the first batch of photos I've placed online from the Canon 1Ds camera I reviewed, which is a very nice 11 megapixel SLR. If folks would like to see an excerpt from the full-size image, let me know. Justice Taney, who stood up to Lincoln and was promptly ignored, got a far less impressive statue here: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/12/chief-justice-roger-taney.html It's sad but predictable that journalists tend to lionize Lincoln without realizing that he was hardly a friend of a free press. Of course such a situation could never arise today. -Declan
