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The Media's Price on Morality

Independent journalism like Lincoln Square is critically important — now more than ever.

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Lisa Senecal
Dec 24, 2025
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Illustration by Riley Levine

In 1896, an era of sensationalized and hyperpartisan journalism, Adolph Ochs purchased The New York Times. Addressing the readers of what he envisioned becoming the paper of record – and in a clear rebuke of financier efforts to exert editorial influence – Ochs wrote that it would be his “earnest aim to … give the news impart…

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