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Editorial
December 4, 1790
Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
What is this article about?
Editorial critiques the motley and unclear state of European affairs as reported in British newspapers, which are filled with unfounded speculations and irrelevant details, making it difficult for Americans to discern facts from rubbish.
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The face of European affairs exhibits a very motley appearance, according to the accounts from Great-Britain, the only medium through which the long columns of recent foreign intelligence has been received: But such is the present state of news-paper publications in that country, that it is utterly impossible to form any precise ideas on political subjects from them, any further than they detail stubborn acts, and these are so thinly interspersed in their multifarious lucubrations, that you have to pioneer through whole columns of rubbish to find them—conjectures, suppositions and speculations, which are generally void of foundation and which, if plausible, are connected with contingencies, that the people of the United States are as uninterested in, as in the dreams of the Bramins of Hindostan, form the aggregate of these accounts.
What sub-type of article is it?
Foreign Affairs
Press Freedom
What keywords are associated?
European Affairs
British Newspapers
Foreign Intelligence
Political Speculation
Unreliable Reporting
What entities or persons were involved?
Great Britain
United States
Bramins Of Hindostan
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Unreliability Of British Newspaper Reports On European Affairs
Stance / Tone
Critical And Skeptical
Key Figures
Great Britain
United States
Bramins Of Hindostan
Key Arguments
European Affairs Appear Motley Via British Accounts
British Newspapers Make Precise Political Ideas Impossible
Facts Are Thinly Interspersed Amid Rubbish
Conjectures And Speculations Are Unfounded And Irrelevant To Americans