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The most important daily newspapers in France are : Ouest-France Le Monde. Le Figaro. Libération. The free newspapers are also very successful in Paris - Metro, 20 minutes or Direct Soir
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Few might think that the US Civil War issues were conducted in Washington DC in great secrecy. For the most part it was not. Although the Lincoln administration suspended habeas corpus, intercepted private mails, suppressed newspapers at one time or another, there was no real truly effective censorship. The Confederacy received more information from Northern newspapers than from southern spies. The locations of US Grant's cannons secretly placed against Vicksburg, became published public information. General Sherman's operations and plans for example, were also published in newspapers. For a time General Sherman was disposed to treat war correspondents as spies. He decided not to however. Foreign policy issues during the US Civil War also "leaked out".
they had most of the similar topics like the ones we have today
The two most influential newspapers during the US Civil War era were the New York Tribune and the New York Herald. Both had a national readership, and were located in New York City.