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because the newspaper's editor was presumed by readers to be the writer, editorials were almost never signed. Editorials often openly attacked staff of rival newspapers and members of opposing political parties, and intentionally incited the public to riot. The most popular editorials during this period were those published in the New York Sun, The New York Herald and the New York Tribune by Benjamin Henry Day, James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley

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