news has been about sensationalism at all cost. Sadly, newspapers in the 19th and early 20th centuries were even worse, and unlike today, you had no way to ind

news has been about sensationalism at all cost. Sadly, newspapers in the 19th and early 20th centuries were even worse, and unlike today, you had no way to independently research if you were being lied to. (Hearst was a classic example.)