Pennsylvania newspaper retracts 1863 editorial criticizing Gettysburg Address

[HoneyBadger]

Seven score and ten years ago, the forefathers of this media institution brought forth to its audience a judgment so flawed, so tainted by hubris, so lacking in the perspective history would bring, that it cannot remain unaddressed in our archives.

We write today in reconsideration of “The Gettysburg Address,” delivered by then-President Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the greatest conflict seen on American soil. Our predecessors, perhaps under the influence of partisanship, or of strong drink, as was common in the profession at the time, called President Lincoln’s words “silly remarks,”deserving “a veil of oblivion,” apparently believing it an indifferent and altogether ordinary message, unremarkable in eloquence and uninspiring in its brevity.

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[Benevolent One]

Nice. Is that where CNN came from? It's funny that people act like the media today is so biased, which it is, but that the media of yesterday wasn't, when it clearly was in examples like this.